Adam Fosters Impossible Puzzles at Bungie

-Adam Fosters Impossible Puzzles at Bungie-

Valve's designer Adam Foster talking about Alternate Reality Games at Bungie Studios. What more could you ask for?

If you don't know, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are a combination of mystery and cryptography creating an almost impossible puzzle that extends from a fictional game into the real world. Adam specifically designed the great "Radio" ARG seen in the hit game Portal, where strategically placed radios in the levels made strange noises when picked up and moved around.

These were no ordinary noises, but coded bits of information through Morse code and Slow-Scan Television (SSTV, encodes low resolution images in audio form). Within these decoded messages were even more puzzles, which causes the player to do research to figure these bits of information out. It even goes as far as connecting to a random modem to extract rough images of Portal 2, making this entire game end in a Portal 2 announcement!

Big thanks to Adam, the IGDASeattle group, and Bungie for blowing our minds.

Go HERE to read more about what Adam did, it will blow your mind.

"I Am The Internet!"

Presenting "The Internet"

A wonderful piece of production illustration if I do say so myself! And so much fun to make!

Hard to believe that this is only the beginning. Next comes character modeling sheets to make this into a fully functional 3D piece. We got a long way to go...

The Internet - In progress

Here's some magic for you! It's the progress on the previous "Internet" piece Im working on.

Be gentle, there's still a lot to go. But critique is always welcome.

Lee

The Internet!

Remember this doodle?

I've decided to make something fun and get some great 3D practice. Basically I'm going to turn this into a 3D piece, with models and everything. I might even animate it if I'm feeling crazy enough!

So I'm deciding between three concept views to make a polished illustration as reference while translating to 3D. Which do you think is better?

(P.S. Should Abraham Lincoln be wearing lumberjack gear?)

Robot Arm

Just working on my robot arm some more today.

Environment Sketches

Have a little bit of time to work on a few things.

Here's a few environment sketches for a for-fun project.

Recent Events and Work

It's been quite a busy past few weeks.

-First of all, I got MARRIED! So that was amazing.

-I also have been busy with some under-wraps work, so thats exciting.

-I've also been working my part-time job, which is time consuming.

But enough excuses, here's some cool stuff I've been working on for Fragout Studios on their upcoming project, Redneck Brigade.

I can't show you much but they have a kickstarter if you want to go see more! Redneck Brigade Kickstarter