Don’t get mugged at GDC
2 years ago 4 of my friends at Sega got mugged the day they arrived in San Francisco for the Game Devlepers Conference. One of them got a broken tooth and a concussion. I don’t know San Francisco that...
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Definition of a Super Computer – 1984
Wow! My cell phone has 128meg of ram. I guess it doesn’t have 4 processors. It’s hard to imagine that something so cool as a Cray-XMP only has a fraction of the processing power of first gen XBox (a...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to EA – Open Source EASTL!
I was recently made aware of something really great. A version of the C++ Standard Template Library that has been modified and redesigned to deal with the issues of game development. It was created by...
View ArticleBest Buy S.N.A.F.U.
So, I went to Best Buy today to pick up Super Mario Galaxy and they claimed it wasn’t coming out till tomorrow 11/13. So I called Gamestop. They have it. I checked Nintendo’s website it says 11/12. So...
View ArticleMagic Highway
I have SOOO wanted to find this short animation for YEARS!! I was totally inspired by that as a kid and in many ways I still read more...
View ArticleRussell’s Quarterly.
Tom Russel is writing a quarterly magazine about video games. The first issue, available here, is 74 pages long, 28 of which are about M.C.Kids. I can’t claim to be unbiased since I made the game but I...
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Video Games in Legos
I was searching for photos on flickr and I stumbled on these images by some guy who goes by the name of Skinny Coder read more...
View ArticleO3D Presentation at Google I/O 2009
I gave a presentation at Google I/O about O3D. In it I show getting started creating a small game in about 20 minutes. (the sound cuts out for 30 seconds at 16:48) You can download the a PDF for the...
View ArticleTGA Thumbnails (and viewer) for Vista and Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bit
Several years ago I wrote a TGA Thumbnail plugin for Windows 2000 / XP. I skipped having a Vista machine and just recently upgraded to Windows7 64bit. I thought that now that I finally have a 64bit...
View ArticleGDC 2011 Report
Here are some notes from attending GDC 2011. How to run a Game Lab: This is the first talk I went to. It wasn’t a very good talk. There were representatives from 5 labs from 5 different universities...
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