May 19, 2011 6:50 am
LaJolla, California – Publishing Gurus announced today from their USA offices located in LaJolla, California that Percy’s Special Gift is the Winner in the Children’s Fiction category of the 2011 Indie Excellence awards, sponsored by the National Indie Excellence Book Awards.
Percy’s Special Gift, written by first-time author, MaryAnn DeSalva of Green Bay, Wisconsin is [...]
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April 12, 2011 2:33 pm
Publishing Gurus is proud to announce the release of Sanctify, a new novel by William Reynolds.
What forces, either emergent or centrally planned, have subtly shaped modern American life? With all our wealth and technological progress, are we still free? These questions and more are explored in William Reynolds’s new novel, Sanctify. Sanctify is a passionate [...]
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December 24, 2010 12:18 am
After 2 months of non-stop hard work, we have completed the basic designing of our game. The first stage is almost ready.
Creating a basic moving bridge was easier but once confronted with coding a moving lift with vanishing ropes, it became a bit tiresome, but we managed it perfectly at the end.
Graphics took a lot of time, where we combined 3d graphics and a bit of opensource textures to create stunning graphics.
Still few animation and sfx are left before we move on to the hero and enemy modeling and animation in 3d. Oh Yeah, health Bar and life are left too.
Music is composed by Wicked Sunny and is just a mere demo of what we are going to compose. Its not even complete yet. Sunny needs to buy a workstation now for animation and music composing, hopefully within a week.
Next video will be on character modeling.
We still have to name our game.
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October 30, 2010 6:46 am
PGS PLATFORMER GAME – stage A – Programming.mp4
At Publishinggurus.com we are currently creating a free platformer game like Mario for Viral advertising of our next book using Flash. This is current video, where most of the basic programming is completed by Wicked Sunny.
We still have to add enemies, enhance our graphics and decide on the game [...]
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October 4, 2010 5:23 am
MaryAnn De Salva, author of Percy’s Special Gift, visited San Diego recently. Besides spending time with family members here, visiting Disneyland, and enjoying Southern California’s normally moderate summer temperatures, Mary Ann made sure to meet with Publishing Gurus’ Editor-in-Chief and Director of Marketing.
We had a delightful lunch together at one of San Diego’s many [...]
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