While the filming for Encounter was in pre-production, I had started work on the graphics for the game. What today we would call the assets. Using a Power Mac 9500, I modeled the spaceship interiors for the QuickTime VR scenes. Multiple renderings of each scene were done and stitched together…

John, my producer, rounded up a first rate crew and talented local actors for the video production the game would require. Given his experience as a commercial producer, he had many connections. He also booked a sound stage for the one-day shoot, and we had props and wardrobe made. My…

In the mid-90’s, Apple's QuickTime VR was a hot new technology. Around the same time, Myst was the hot CD-ROM game. So of course I decided to make a CD-ROM computer game based on QuickTime VR. It would combine what we used to call FMV (full motion video) and 3D…

I wanted to be organized, so as I wrote the screenplay for “Two Knights Defense”, I started putting parentheses around the text and before long my story was encoded as Lisp structures. Nested lists, to be precise. The next obvious step was to write some scripts to process the structures…

Oddly enough, I do remember that the idea for the web graphic novel came to me while I was cleaning beans at the kitchen table one day. I remember this because I remember telling the story to one of the actors who asked me where I got the idea. Kind…

A little flashback… I wrote my first short story in 8th grade. It was a science fiction story about the crew of a small spacecraft sent to investigate a comet. I even drew a picture of the spacecraft. It had a built-in observatory with “non-refractive” glass. In high school and…

Around the time of Metropolis Graphics, I did some contract development for a Montreal company developing a GIS (geographic information system) application. What made the job interesting was that we developed the software on OpenStep, the Intel port of NextStep. Years ago I had read Brad Cox’s book on Objective-C…

Long story short, we failed to get funding for our project and Metropolis Graphics withered on the vine, nothing more than the pipe dream of two idealistic developers. I could muse at length as to why that was, but basically I had no business sense (and thirty years on there…

I still have the MCL code I wrote during the years of Metropolis Graphics. I found a comment dated 4 April 1992 in the matrix math file. Thirty years almost to the day from the writing of my new system (which I have called kons-9 in the Github repository for…