Backlog post #2. I made this thing in October last year, and have only showed it to a few friends. Not that those very friends aren’t the only people who read this thing, but anyway. The world will come later. Some background, then. I play Guild Wars occasionally, and in the game, I am the leader of a guild called Ensis Equitas. This is me reimagining the same guild set in a dystopian future, where order is maintained by guilds of mercenaries selling their services to the highest bidder, or just pursuing their own arbitrary code of justice. The Sword [...]

Just nonsense, really. I’ve been wanting to learn to use Illustrator for a while now, and the text in the center of this picture is the first step towards that goal. The shape of the word came to me on the train home a few days ago, and I couldn’t let it go. As for the word itself, it’s just plain cool. I’m actually thinking of using this image as the title screen for an upcoming project (if I finish it…), but we’ll just have to see about that. Word design done in Illustrator CS, everything else in Photoshop CS3. [...]

Backlog post #1. Some of you already saw this, but bear with me. A while ago, I came across this site (beware; in Swedish), and decided to give it a shot. I got an idea, and wrote it all down on the bus home from work. Unfortunately what I’d come up with exceeded the maximum word count by almost 200 words, even after some editing after I typed it all up, and I liked it a little too much to just cut it all away. I tried, though, I admit, but I couldn’t get the feeling I was after in [...]