Author Archives: Steven Halls

About Steven Halls

Steven B. Halls, father of the Talking Moose, also a radiologist and pilot.

Is he cuter than before?

I made this animated gif, frame-by-frame, just rotating the head and the eyes, because I’m anxiously waiting to judge if all our work on making the moose cuter, is going to work, or not. Pretty soon, our applicaton will make … Continue reading

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Hats

Some quick photoshop mockups, of a few hats on the Moose. I was just curious how they might look, but none are great so far.

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Beards

Should the Moose have a beard? What style?

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Eyelash – alpha transparency glitch

I though you’d enjoy seeing this current little problem we’re having on the coding side. The eyelashes are supposed to be transparent, but the problem you see, is that the transparency effect is also being transmitted to the skin behind … Continue reading

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Finished skin color, of new talking moose

Here are a collection of pictures from different angles, of the new moose model, with its skin showing the colors and bump textures and shinyness. (click picture to get a bigger view.)

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The Moose as WebSocket server.

Gamasutra had a short but useful article about implementing a WebSocket server. It’s apparently kindof like making the moose be a Web server for HTTP, except it ends up being faster and for custom messages.

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Camera perspective, What to choose?

I made this graphic showing the effect of different camera field-of-view settings, on how the Moose looks. At some point, I’m going to have to choose a setting that makes the Moose look cutest. Trouble is, at the moment, I’m … Continue reading

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Jokes not suitable 1

- My grandfather died while having sex. I cry every time I watch the video. – It’s so awkward when you accidentally see your parents having sex. I’m never visiting that website again.

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Blinking

Some progress was evident today, with the new 3D model showing improvements in its eyelashes, and blinking. I realize that the eyes are still a big issue, and I won’t be fully able to adjust the color and shading around … Continue reading

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Give the gift of Talking Moose – flirting – a monitization idea.

From this article on gamasutra about techniques to monitize free-to-play games, I read that people are willing to pay, to give a “gift” of a free-to-play game to someone else, that someone being the target of their affections, who they … Continue reading

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