Author: Baker

My album Amalgamate has been live for a couple weeks now.  I’m already hard at work on my next project.

I live in Colorado which has the most amazing weather patterns of pretty much anywhere on the planet.  Yesterday, it was 69° outside.  I went for a pleasant walk.  Today I woke up, and it was 15° and the ground was completely covered with a white blanket of snow.

There is not a single word in the English language that can describe what I felt when I woke up.  I didn’t even have to look out the window.  The feeling is universal though.  In Japan, they call this feeling mugen.  It is a sense of awe and wonder that one feels when contemplating change.  It’s not exactly nostalgia, but it is similar, like when you remember something pleasant from the past.  Nostalgia is the feeling you get when you try to hold onto those memories and relive them over and over.  Mugen is the feeling you feel when one of those feelings arises spontaneously.  You enjoy it for a moment, then you let it go.

The English language is full of ambiguities.  Shakespeare knew this very well.  He exploited every single one.  What sorts of things are universal?  Star crossed lovers?  I imagine it happens all the time.  And what is love like?  It’s a midsummer night’s dream.

-Baker Beltz

Version 1.1 of Zen Labyrinth is now available on iOs and Android.  It has been  an epic journey of development already, but I am far from done.  Version 1.1 has 6 levels.  The next update will have 12.  I have already received a tremendous amount of constructive feedback from people who have played the game.  I plan on implementing many new features in upcoming updates.  Game design is an iterative process.  I feel like I have a solid start, but many things can be improved.  If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to send me a message.  There is a contact page on my website.  I’d love to hear from you.

It’s been an epic week!  I finished the first version of Zen Labyrinth, and published it on the Google Play Store.  This version only has 2 levels, but with the core of the game complete, further level design should be fairly straight forward.  I plan on releasing my first update soon.  The next version will be longer, and have more interesting stuff to look at!

If you have an Android device, Zen Labyrinth is a free download from the Google Play Store.

I plan on releasing the game on iPhone and iPad as well, but it isn’t quite ready yet for that platform.

Mourning is for a time

But Joy comes in the morning

Daughter of Life

Has Descended to Her Chambers

Bride of Death, Ever Virginal

Sleeps with Her Husband

Until Spring’s First Light.

PRAISED BE MY LORD FOR OUR BROTHER FIRE WHO HAS BEEN VERY SERVICEABLE UNTO US FOR PURIFYING THE GOLD OF THE SOUL IN THE ATHANOR OF THE SPIRIT AND THE PHYSICAL VEHICLE.

PRAISED BE MY LORD FOR OUR SISTER WATER, WHO IS VERY SERVICEABLE UNTO US, AND HUMBLE AND PRECIOUS AND CLEAN.

 

 

 

 

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Fire and Water is a Nash Equilibrium.  If we all respect life, and work together, then everybody wins.

I don’t actually play Magic The Gathering, but I enjoy looking at the artwork on the cards.  This is a digital painting I did of the Auramancer card that I am quite fond of.

It’s been a very busy month or so.  I went through about 30 prototypes in designing the VeNect Building Component.  But it is now complete and available free of charge to anyone who owns a 3d printer.

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