I’m in the market for a small-ish computer monitor with integrated speakers and HDMI input, to sit on my desk and make it easier to do XBLA development, by having the XBOX right there, ready to go, at all times. Looks like it’ll be around $250 for a 22″ 16:9 jobbie, which is a bit [...]
A new gamejam starts on Friday. Tonight a mixer event was held in anticipation, during which hotdogs were consumed and the theme was announced: A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. In addition, each game needs to incorporate, somehow, at least one of these three keywords: Sheep Scorched Reflection Thinking!
Played Geometry Wars projected onto the side of a building at a party tonight. Nice concept, but a 15m display might annoy the neighbours, doncha think?
Here’s a book chapter that I wrote in 2000 and that wasn’t published until late 2008. Enjoy! Probably best to read in full-screen, or click through to Issuu and download the PDF.
Had a good time at the Perth Indie Games Scene Showcase and Mixer, and disappointed I didn’t have anything to showcase. Impressive to see what various peeps have been up to. And now I’m amazingly tired, and still putting off sleep time with another episode of Teh Learning Curve.
Today I played around with XNA, and very quickly got a “hello, world” app up-and-running on PC and Xbox. Everything looks pretty nifty, although my enthusiasm hit a wall when I realised I’d have to write an entity system if I wanted to do anything more than draw a couple of textures round abouts. On [...]
I checked my personal records. I purchased my first-generation, “stick’o’gum” iPod shuffle on Saturday April 23, 2005. It probably cost $150 or something outrageous like that. On the same day, we ate barbequed corn and “shaking beef”, played “Lost Cities” and “Carcassonne”, played the demo of “Meteos” on the DS and watched “Iron Chef”, which [...]