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Chris Spalton commented
Nope there is no completing of the game, it's like an open world multiplayer thing, with no other objective than to try and stay alive. What I love about it is the fact that the stories and experiences are totally generated dynamically by the player behaviour. I've heard about one guy who scoured the landscape … Read more
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Chris Spalton answered Anonymous' question

Haha Regenerative Health is a good one for sure, have you ever played the awesome Zombie apocalypse mod called Day-Z?  No regen health there, just one life, if you die, you lose everything and have to start again with nothing. It's brutal, but awesome.


My very first game I felt I was doing quite well, … Read more

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Chris Spalton answered Yo Kass' question

Exactly what UX 'is' seems to actually be really hard to define, with no right or wrong answers, I guess it's whats right for any particular user at any particular time. (Great specific answer right??)

However, I don't necessarily think that lack of design / development skills are a barrier to entry at all, you just … Read more

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Chris Spalton commented
It's an awesome app simply called 'Paper' by a company called FiftyThree. Free App, but you have to pay about £4 or so to get all the tools. It's great though, really natural feeling tools, etc. Would recommend a stylus for it however. Been meaning to write a review of it for my blog as … Read more
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Chris Spalton answered Yo Kass' question

I'd teach a course on 'Low-Brow' underground poster art. It combines my 3 main interests of Music, Art and Wierdness combined, and the creativity in this field is absolutely mind blowing.

I got into it after working at the SXSW festival in Austin back in 2004, where there was a poster convention called Flatstock, where loads … Read more

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Chris Spalton answered Yo Kass' question

After many years of kind of being a Jack of all Trades, doing design, development, graphic design and other assorted things, a few months ago I realised that I really needed to starting channel this broad range of experience into something more focused.

I think my dream career would really be one based around user experience, … Read more

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Chris Spalton thanked Yo Kass' answer

Great question Chris!

I guess there are two things you can do:

1) Try and incorporate similar elements into your portfolio website.

For example, if one of your major accomplishments at work was to create a database-driven application using PHP, then perhaps you could recreate an example of this on your website - without any of the … Read more

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Chris Spalton answered

Thanks Kass and sorry for the late reply, cheers for your ideas.  I've just had a project go live a week or so ago so have attempted to write a bit about it, in fairly generic terms.  At least it's something... You can have a read here if you're interested : http://spalton-creative.com/?p=158