Making Of

I work in the Games Industry for more than 20 years - mostly as Producer or Gamedesigner. During my career my daily work became more and more Excel and Powerpoint - JIRA and Confluence - meetings and slack and calls all day long. But when I started to develop games in the 80s - my fun was actually doing all type of stuff my self - hands on: programming, pixel art, animation, audio - I liked tool development and scripting - and special effects. So at some point the urge became serious to really DO something again. Back to the roots. Hands on. So I started a little side project in my spare time. I have a family and kids - that means that spare time is never more than 1 or 2 hours in the evening. Because of the limited time everyday the "little" project turned out to be bigger than expected and my progress was very slow. At the end it took me 2 years to created this little thing.

Find notes, screenshots and scribbles from the development here.

Originally I wanted to develop a game - but since I decided to learn a new programming language and other stuff, I thought I should have a "little" training project before. So I went for something super simpel : a neat calculator. Not just another calculator and - but a nice calculator with a twist: a Steampunk Calculator. Not just a boring skin - but rotating gears, physical buttons, mechanic, electricity.

... Fixme Todo: Add more WIP pix here and some datas and number ...

2017-February Finally I got my new Ipad Pro with pencil. Creating scribbles and color mockups became suddenly super easy and fun. I was finally able to define and visualize what I had in mind all the time for dat hole in the middle. (see left)

Implementation with a clear vision and goal was super fast than. (see right)

... this site is under development ...