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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be …

Here’s an article by Joseph about his experiments using two-dimensional game-creation software: I recently started playing around with the idea of learning 2d game making in my spare time. However, while I want to learn Java, I don’t have the knowledge to be able to start programming games yet (or …

Just to give y’all a heads-up, we are going to be revamping the website here at Mertens Creations over the next few days.  Expect things to look odd and different and nonsensical. What changes will we be making?  For one, we’re going to be adding a portfolio page where we’ll …

Hello readers, it’s been a little while …no, actually a very long time, since we broke silence last. However, Jack and I had some time to jam this afternoon on a short song and take some pics, so we thought that we would post them to liven things up in …

Here is a movie-related question that has been bugging me for a while: If everyone compliments a movie’s cinematography, is that a good thing or a bad thing?  In other words, can “great cinematography” (take, for instance, weird camera angles or a miniature effect or the vertigo effect) sometimes distract …

We made one very practical resolution for this year: we’re going to publish at least one post every week this year on either this website or our other website Flint and Bone’s Comic Reviews. We’ll do our best to keep things interesting this year as we try to post more frequently! -The Mertens …

Here is a little bit of the process behind the creation of our new header image for Mertens Creations: My original idea involved snow and a road stretching across the foreground, so I mocked up an idea and added a house and tree Critiques: the road looks like it is …