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I Write Like …

Yet another instant analyzer with a pastable badge.

I write likeDavid Foster Wallace
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I Blame the Game Developers

/.reports that creativity in America is declining.
From the article:
One likely culprit is the number of hours kids now spend in front of the TV and playing videogames rather than engaging in creative activities.
By extension, I blame game developers.
But seriously. When I was growing up, we played D&D. On paper! When the uptight [...]

Keeping it Simple: The Game Plays!

Still wrestling with my little puzzle game. I did some plumbing work today — a bitmap manager, a sound manager, and a basic level data structure. The result? The core game is, while still horrifically lacking in feedback, at least playable!

Tack in a reasonable amount of polish and some not-crap levels and [...]

A Modern Phone

I have finally given up on ever having an iPhone. With that newfound freedom, I’ve picked up a myTouch 3g Slide. Yes, after months of railing that it’s “for nerds,” I have an Android phone. One with a keyboard, no less! I’m liking it quite a lot… I even managed [...]

A World to call Your Own

I’m slightly surprised that Ryzom’s release as open source hasn’t attracted more attention in the blogosphere. From the Ryzom Open Source FAQ:
Ryzom is released in its entirety – all of the framework (NeL, NeLNS), game client, tools, utilities and game servers (services) is released. In addition to all of the source code Ryzom has also [...]

I Call Tauren Pooh

CVG quotes SW:TOR writing director Daniel Erickson of Bioware (the story is also copiedcarried by the Escapist) …

“In the early days when they first announced that there were MMOs [...] I knew in my head what that meant [...] It was just giant Role Playing Games. And then MMO showed up, and it wasn’t [...]

MMOGLess

I haven’t played more than a couple of hours of MMO since I resumed student life last September.
Weird, eh? Considering “student” is typically synonymous with “MMOG addicted gamer” … isn’t it? Even now that I’m off for the summer, I don’t seem to have the time to play anything more than a (great) facebook [...]

Twitdown for April 22

I promise we’re not doing what @RRS_ATL warns about.
RT @RavenJon: Ready…1…2…3…Exploit! http://hen.sh/1Hg #facebook
Thanks to @Scopique, now I’m craving my giant walking tanks again!
HAWT DAMN! MekTek announced Free Release of Mechwarrior 4! http://tinyurl.com/27wucjq
I agree, @troygilbert, I’d just as soon keep Flash around, too!
Bravo, bravo, great post –> Why I don’t want Flash to die (and you [...]