Blog, Thoughts and Portfolio of Joe Angus

Links to friends and sites that I read

Leezon (http://www.leezon.com)
Portfolio of my best friend Chris Gardner, an amazing photographer and also a fellow designer

Chris Tufnell (http://www.crazymac.net)
Blog of a good friend of mine that works in the games pr industry, he reviews a lot of games and shares his unbiased opinions to the world

Matt Holden (http://www.imholden.com)
Matt is an awesome pencil artist, and is moving to digital vector art more recently with the creation of his eagerly awaited comic Tamashii City!

Mazy (http://www.mazy.net)
Morten Hedegren 'mazy', is an extremely talented map designer that ive known for many years, and now works for IO Interactive in Denmark. His blog is always a good read, full of various reviews and opinons

Ryans GobLog (http://www.ryansgoblog.com/)
Ryan expresses his views on video games which makes for a good read and also does a fair bit of webby stuff too

CGTalk (http://www.cgtalk.com)
CGTalk is a huge community for extremely talented designers, ranging from all types of media medium. If you want to see how far people push digital art, here's definitely the place to go, it'll blow your mind

Mapcore (http://www.mapcore.net)
General gaming development community site, although focused upon level design and development. Lots of really nice guys on the forums, and definitely a great place to get good constructive criticism.

456 Berea St. (http://www.456bereastreet.com)
Another great resource for articles related to web development, just like above - it's a must for your RSS reader to keep up to date with latest development technology

A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com)
A List apart is full of useful information for web designers and developers, very good articles on particular aspects which have definately answered some of my questions in the past

Addedbytes (http://www.addedbytes.com/)
Yet another great resource from a UK developer, his cheat sheets are particulary useful to have a print out of and leave on your desk!

Four-Kings (http://www.four-kings.com)
Four-Kings LTD are UK's first pro-esports team. I designed all of their clothing (pre Packard Bell sponsorship) which is worn across the globe at professional gaming events like The CPL.