Ben Belland

One thing I always thought would be super cool is texture painting an object in 3D. I did about a year of spray finishing at one point so I'm familiar with colouring something one colour over and over again. I also want to learn how to sculpt in

Starting the process of doing things again, as my life settles into what passes for normal these days. I find if I get up early with something to do I feel much better. Jumped out of bed to do something related to school things and spent the day making this

Flashback to now, and I don't think I've got the juice to make the helicopter game work with the time I've got. It was a good motivator though! I started reading and drawing again, planning and hoping. Hoping tomorrow I get to hear good

This is the first blog of my next project, project Goblin Date. The idea is to make a game about flying helicopters at sunset. Basically, that. You fly a helicopter into the sunset, there's the game. To do this I'll have to do quite a few

I had a lot of fun with this one. There were so many steps that I wished I had taken screenshots of, all my enemies piling up, different directions, etc... It would have made a good post. Alas, hindsight is 20/20. I'm done this one, https://github.

I just finished a thing called Ghost Boss, a month long project to learn Rust and Godot. It went well! I just published a bug free release! It exposed me to some ideas that I've had in my head and never been able to vocalize before, such as

I've always wanted to get a pomodoro that worked. I've tried a few things over the years, a little egg timer, a cube, a program I wrote. It always seemed like such a hassle, no matter if it was flipping a square, poking a program or

So the first game I'm making is called Ghost Boss, and it entails you possessing your employees to get things done faster in your little supermarket. I have four little minigames planned, and four or five sections of game to play. The code is a bit of a

So it's been about a year to the day of drawing every day. I learned a lot, and it demystified the process behind making art in general. My skills aren't sharp enough for me to continue a M-F webcomic and keep improving, but! I'

seriously that house looked like fun