- Sep 30
Wario Land Shake It!
- Design, Technology, Video Games
I’ve been sitting on this one for a week now and kept forgetting to post about it. The new Wario Land video at YouTube is probably the best use of a Flash ad I’ve seen on the web in a long time. I’m incredibly impressed with just how functional and accurate everything is. I didn’t suspect for a minute that anything was amiss.You really should go see it for yourself if you haven’t already. I’m also very intrigued by the game and it’s cartoony graphics. It takes me back to the days of games like Battletoads and The Simpsons Arcade.
- Sep 20
WAAAGH!
- Video Games
I traded in my other MMO addiction for Warhammer Online. So far I’m loving it. I am playing a Black Orc named Glarg on the Volkmar server. Any game where I can stuff a dwarf into a barrel and kick it off a wall gets two thumbs up from me. Now bring me my choppa so I’s can git to slash’n and bash’n stunties and humies! WAAAGH!!!
Talk about a kick to the ego. These are some of my first projects out of college. I plan on keeping these around to remind me where I was when I started, especially when evaluating job candidates.
These were made as part of a loop for an arcade machine called the GATE. We had hooked up a webcam, mouse trackball and a keyboard to a computer in a custom cabinet. The idea was that you could play new computer games with people in arcades around the world. You could hear them and watch them in little windows around the game you were playing.
This was back in 98-00, way before YouTube, podcasts and ventrillo. It was pretty amazing that we could squeeze 8 videos through a tiny pipe along with game data. Alas, noone told the owner, an old exec from Atari, that arcades were dead in America.
He should have put it in Japan.
- Mar 01
Moving Day
- Personal, Video Games
The Passion of the Wenckus from Michael Sigler on Vimeo.
I tricked my friends into thinking they would have to help me move. Little did they know that we had hired movers the week before. Instead of hauling heavy stuff we pretended to be rock gods.
Welcome
I am Michael Sigler and this is my blog. I am a designer, artist, art director, writer, dungeon master and all around geek. I live in Portland, OR with my wife Joleine. During the day I work for the fine folks at Jive Software.
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Projects
These are the communities and projects that I proudly help lead and maintain.
Dragon Avenue
A community and news site for fans of Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games.
Refresh Portland
A monthly gathering focused on spreading a little design knowledge to the dark corners of Portland, OR.