31 Jan 2006, 16:33
Relive your youth with DHTML Lemmings!
29 Jan 2006, 16:35
One of the best games ever made, and they did it quick
03 Jan 2006, 05:44
Stroustrup describes some of the expected features in the next standard of the C++ language: http://www.artima.com/cppsource/cpp0x.html
Bruce Sterling talked about games, narrative and art, at GDC’91. His words are still very relevant: http://lib.ru/STERLINGB/story.txt
25 Dec 2005, 07:50
…into our house? If you don’t regularly read SomethingAwful’s Photoshop Phriday, at least make sure you don’t miss this one.
Merry Xmas everyone!
20 Dec 2005, 14:43
Even after filtering out URLs, that thing was just a spam magnet, and I’m not gonna waste my time cleaning it up every couple of days. Bye bye, my first PHP app!
On another note, I tried the compatibility of the 360, and found out that Halo 1 still rocks!
18 Dec 2005, 16:06
Yeah, hum… I’m not calling it the XBox 2 anymore, and I even bought one a couple weeks after release. 🙂
– XBox Live Arcade positively rocks. I tried to approach it as a dumb user, and found that the menus are not simple, but they are consistent, so once you get the hang of them, anyone should be comfortable. The ability to download game demos, trailers and such is great, now all it needs is more more more content.
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16 Dec 2005, 14:55
It’s great, useful and… I have always had some dark thoughts about it, which Penny-Arcade has pretty much summed up in their unique style:
“What you’ve proposed is a kind of quantum encyclopedia, where genuine data both exists and doesn’t exist depending on the precise moment I rely upon your discordant fucking mob for my information."
With the heated debates going on about its updated procedures, policies, goals and fundraising, it’s hard to see it growing in significance beyond what it currently offers.
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15 Dec 2005, 13:56
Version 0.2 of the little C# game can be downloaded here. It has a little bit of AI, enough to make the game, if not truly challenging, at least much more interesting.
I have also included a Release version which shouldn’t require Visual Studio 2005 installed, and links to the necessary runtimes. I get reports that it still fails to run in some machines – I have no idea why. Can someone help with this?
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14 Dec 2005, 17:51
Every now and then, I experiment with C# and the .NET Framework. For the most part, it’s an amazingly useful environment to develop on; you can crank up tools and interfaces in no time, and Visual Studio provides lots of helpers to improve productivity and general comfort. However, not all is rosy. Being a const-correctness fan, I dismayed when I found out about this.
To quote from one of the comments:
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12 Dec 2005, 16:56
The December DirectX 9 SDK has been released. It apparently includes some DX10 tech previews requiring unreleased hardware and the latest beta of Windows Vista.
Ah, the joys of another version of the D3DX DLL…
Edit: Oh yes another buggy installer from your favourite Software giant! A few seconds into the installation, it halted with an error because it couldn’t find some “April 2005 SDKfiles”. Then it started to rollback the installer, and then decided to continue installing anyway.
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