How to Brew Kombucha

A quick and dirty guide to brewing your first batch of Kombucha tea!

Home Mastering Master Class with Ian Shepherd

I recently finished an online 9 week “Home Mastering Master Class” from Ian Shepherd. It was great fun and very informative! Ian did a great job of communicating deep, valuable information about mastering audio while staying easy to understand and entertaining.

Join our “Build your own FPS in Unity!” class this month!

Once again I’m partnering with Indie Game School to bring another month long “Build your own FPS in Unity3D” class. We use Unity3D and Playmaker to give you the nuts and bolts you need to create virtually any FPS. And best of all, these are solid game development tools that will also be used in other game types like 2D side scroller, top-down RTS, etc.

Portfolio Defense at Bellevue College Digital Media Arts Program

I had a fun and rewarding day friday serving on a portfolio review panel for the Digital Media Arts program at Bellevue College. We saw some really good work, and I am very impressed with the continually increasing quality of that program! It’s wonderful to see so many students with strong portfolios who are ready to get work.

I am a “Unicorn”!  I had never heard the term, but apparently entrepreneurs with technical skills are a rare and sought after beast.

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I am a Unicorn

Last night I attended a Seattle Entrepreneurs MeetUp group event, hosted at Davis Write Tremaine LLP. I was really impressed with the volume and quality of the attendees. The topic was “Startup Matchmaking; Finding a Co-Founder, Building Your Team, Joining a Startup”.

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LWIT Multimedia Design and Production Portfolio Defenses

Last week I was on a panel of judges for the portfolio defenses by students of the Multimedia Design and Production program at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. I was really impressed with the work the students turned out this quarter! The program at LWIT is really stepping up!

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New Playmaker iOS Fundamentals Video Tutorial Series!

New Playmaker iOS Fundamentals Video Tutorial Series!

I’ve finished up a new video tutorial series for my company Well Played Games, and thanks to a special arrangement between Hutong Games (Playmaker) and Well Played Games, this series is completely free! There are 13 videos in total, and they are rolling out over the next several days.

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Spectral Synthesis – Introduction and Approaches

Spectral Synthesis – Introduction and Approaches

A couple weeks ago I made this quick video showing how to understand and use the spectrogram in a spectral synthesizer, demonstrated in Izotope Iris and Camel Audio Alchemy. I was inspired to make it after working with the new iZotope Iris synthesizer demo, and seeing many comments on line that made it clear spectrograms weren’t completely understood by many people.

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Panelist at “Careers in IT: The Real Story”

Panelist at “Careers in IT: The Real Story”

Last week I had the privilege of speaking on a panel at Bellevue College for the “Careers in IT: The Real Story” event. It was hosted by The Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology at the Carlson Theater at Bellevue College in Bellevue Washington.

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How to Make Video Tutorials

How to Make Video Tutorials

Over the last couple of months I’ve made a series of video tutorials for my company, Well Played Games. I’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about how I created them so I want to share my process.

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New Playmaker Video Tutorial Series!

New Playmaker Video Tutorial Series!

I’ve completed a new video tutorial series of 13 videos that show how to use Playmaker and Unity3D to create a lot of bread-and-butter gameplay. This is over 4 hours of video, and I’m really excited to make it available to everyone very soon! Check out the details at Well Played Games.

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I will never have time to read all the books I want to.  But that doesn’t stop me from reading, it just stops me from reading the hard to find books, because I already have so many equally great reads at my fingertips.

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Just who is making the dumb move here? Netflix, or Starz?

Last night I read on CNN Money that “Netflix stock plunges as Starz ends contract talks”. It struck me that this is exactly inverse to what I would expect! If I had stock in Starz, I would have pulled it.

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