IGN reports on comments made by Peter Vesterbacka of Angry Birds fame on a panel at South By Southwest: “console games are dying along with the concept of paying $50+ for a game.” I think both concepts are false, though not completely made without grounds. Understanding that Angry Birds has sold over 100 million copies, [...]
Graphite Lab is off to the 2011 Game Developer's Conference to meet with the world's greatest in game development. Our veteran team has nearly 40 published titles and over 5M units sold. In addition, the team has worked with 20 acclaimed clients for both domestic and international releases. We have a proven record of on-time [...]
I attended the CreativeNEXT round table discussion yesterday in St. Louis to hear from a panel of veterans in the agency business share their ideas about the state of the industry in St. Louis. Graphite Lab is not an ad agency, but area agencies look to us for our game design experience as it relates [...]
Integration of HLSL (High Level Shader Language) into 3DS Max and other major 3D packages have been helpful tools for 3D artists over the past few years. They work by offloading the rendering process to the GPU thru DirextX to provide fairly accurate “in-game” previews of 3D models right in your viewport in real time. [...]
I get asked a few times per month what sources I follow to keep inspired in the areas of art, design, gaming, etc. While I love Game Developer and HOW– I have been ditching the paper and press a bit over the last few months and have been visiting a few specific websites quite frequently. [...]
Where do they come from? Why are they important? Why are we Graphite Lab? I have answers. Names are an important part of business. They can communicate your mission, or define ties your location. They can communicate your services if well articulated, or they can cause confusion if you steer too close to the edge [...]
Graphite Lab was born out of necessity to create beautiful things. As a studio under the Black Lantern Holdings umbrella, we show our roots of game design in all that we do. We built Graphite Lab to focus on services that could supplement our game development - but wanted to place the studio in a [...]