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Polytechnicast

Art journal podcast by Rob Stenzinger, sharing thoughts on his various creative projects and adventures ranging from user experience design, creating comics, making video games, to interactive design.

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Episodes

Polytechnicast - Making a Video Game Side Project Part 5 - Weekend Progress

This last weekend I had what I call a "creative marathon" on the Two Pizza Team project. I share an update with where the project is at, tool choices, and what things I'll be working on next. Related Links and Resources Unity Creature Animation: Automated 2D Skeletal Animation Tool ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 12, 2018

Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 5 - Why Care About Being a Facilitator

This time in the UX series I talk about how and why having principles and practices that help a group of people share and combine ideas is super important whether your project is just you and a client or you and a bunch of other collaborators. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 11, 2018

Polytechnicast - A Visit From Jerzy Drozd

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I have Friend, Cartoonist and Teaching Artist Jerzy Drozd on to learn the story of what actually happened with an autographed birthday gift. Related Links and Resources - Jerzy Drozd - Cartoonist/Teaching Artist ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 09, 2018

Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 3 - Expressing Ideas So Others Can Participate

Wherein I continue my encouraging everyone to consider using UX related tools and skills. This time I describe how user experience design can take a variety of useful forms: goals, rationale, document, activity, story, hypothesis and most of all expressing ideas so others can participate. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 08, 2018

Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 1

If any discipline can be inclusive of people from all backgrounds it should be User Experience. Here I begin a series of posts about highlighting useful UX tools and skills. Also I invite anyone making something or part of a team that makes something for people to give the systemic human centered tools of UX a try. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 07, 2018

Polytechnicast - Making a Video Game Side Project Part 4 - Why I Chose Unity

Wherein I describe raw to fully cooked game engines and how I used my design constraints to choose a game engine for Two Pizza Team. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 05, 2018

Polytechnicast - Making a Videogame Side Project Part 3 - Choosing a Game Engine

Here I talk about past game engines and tools I've used such as Director, HTML/Javascript, Flash, Corona SDK, Phaser that led me to be ready to choose a game engine for Two Pizza Team. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 04, 2018

Polytechnicast - Making a Videogame Side Project Part 2

Wherein I continue some thoughts about kinds of video game side project commitments. Also I relate that to an interesting place I encountered that makes their own games, is also an arcade, and does games UX research at the very same venue. Related Links and Resources Twobitcircus ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...

Nov 03, 2018
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