Word Game ... rework. After much trial and error my first attempt at a standalone app - an iOS tile word game that allows partial word plays - is essentially functional. HOWEVER... I've decided to rework much of the code and the entire Xcode project to improve and enhance what I was able to learn on the first pass. I hoping to share/document some of the things I learn and incorporate to both help others as well as document the process for myself for future reference. The game idea started years ago and the characters and layout were prototyped at that time, but it wasn't until the last year or so that I felt comfortable and capable of tackling the coding portion of the project.

Some Modo fun

Here are some characters I put together using Modo. Just a work in progress - need to get the designs nailed down, optimize the poly count and texture for both prerendered and real-time output. Pretty fun to make. I especially like the mirroring abilities of Modo (modeling and texturing), but there are some habits and workflow issues from Maya that I either miss or are hard to 'unlearn'.