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January 06, 2002
Noticing the link on Bryan's developer diary, I took the test. Here's my result. . .
I am a Space-invader.
I will happily recruit the help of friends to aid me in getting what I want. I have no tolerance for people getting in my way, and I am completely relentless until any threats or opposition are…
I am a Space-invader.
I will happily recruit the help of friends to aid me in getting what I want. I have no tolerance for people getting in my way, and I am completely relentless until any threats or opposition are…
January 03, 2002
Wow, sorry for the lack of updates. I intended to do an update between the end of the contest and my Christmas vacation, but the contest ended up running long and I just got too busy. Anyway, I'm back from holidays (the wife and I did Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and a buncha …
December 07, 2001
Okay, time for some more. . .
Super-Secret XBox Contest-Winning Tips!
Super-Secret XBox Contest-Winning Tips!
- Take to heart my suggestions on 11/30. I've gotten plenty of levels with pretty patterns of tiles on the floor, but that I can solve just by glancing at 'em. While aesthetics are important, if a level's not fun to play and a reason…
December 05, 2001
The contest is still going well, and the field is still wide open.
I got an email from someone who was tearing his hair out about that level I posted on 11/30. Here's the solution. I'll do it by coordinates because I was a dumb person and made all of the soaps the same color.
(0,2) U
(0,4) U
(0,1) R
(0,…
I got an email from someone who was tearing his hair out about that level I posted on 11/30. Here's the solution. I'll do it by coordinates because I was a dumb person and made all of the soaps the same color.
(0,2) U
(0,4) U
(0,1) R
(0,…
December 01, 2001
I found another little thing that would make for a great little set of contest entries (hint hint).
While browsing the February 2002 (why do they put these things out so early) issue of Games Magazine, I came across a short article about "Tilt Mazes", which are basically paper-n-pencil versions of t…
While browsing the February 2002 (why do they put these things out so early) issue of Games Magazine, I came across a short article about "Tilt Mazes", which are basically paper-n-pencil versions of t…
November 30, 2001
Contest Update!
The contest is going steadily, but the flow of entries have dropped off from the first day. If you enter now, you'd have a pretty fair chance of winning just from the number of entries. Make an entry and make it good, and you've got a fair chance to walk away with a nice prize.
Secret…
The contest is going steadily, but the flow of entries have dropped off from the first day. If you enter now, you'd have a pretty fair chance of winning just from the number of entries. Make an entry and make it good, and you've got a fair chance to walk away with a nice prize.
Secret…
November 16, 2001
Aww crap, I surrender.
According to Slashdot, Apple owns U.S. Patent No. 5,379,129, which patents composting a source image to a destination using a mask image. This is an obvious and well-known technique, but Apple seems to think they invented it in 1992. Here's an example. This is the masked bitma…
According to Slashdot, Apple owns U.S. Patent No. 5,379,129, which patents composting a source image to a destination using a mask image. This is an obvious and well-known technique, but Apple seems to think they invented it in 1992. Here's an example. This is the masked bitma…
November 16, 2001
The Contest is up!
Go here, design a great level, and win a fully loaded XBox outfit. I'm spending a lot of money on this contest, so impress me.
NOTE: If you downloaded the level-builder on or before 11/26, please re-download it. There was a bug in level-saving. Sorry.
Go here, design a great level, and win a fully loaded XBox outfit. I'm spending a lot of money on this contest, so impress me.
NOTE: If you downloaded the level-builder on or before 11/26, please re-download it. There was a bug in level-saving. Sorry.
November 12, 2001
Okay. Sorry about the delays, but I've been a busy person. Working on a new game called "Alien Isotope". It's probably nothing special, but some of the stuff I thought was gonna be nothing special turned out to be the best.
Also, it looks like the Ducky Builder contest is finally gonna happen, and …
Also, it looks like the Ducky Builder contest is finally gonna happen, and …
October 29, 2001
The .net DVD is now officially spoken-for. Thanks for playing!
Got a couple of eBay items you might want.
The Entire print-run of Game Developer Magazine. This one's about $200 to buy on CD, and somebody's gonna get it really cheap!
Two Game Programming Books. Not as cheap as Game Developer, but stil…
Got a couple of eBay items you might want.
The Entire print-run of Game Developer Magazine. This one's about $200 to buy on CD, and somebody's gonna get it really cheap!
Two Game Programming Books. Not as cheap as Game Developer, but stil…
October 26, 2001
Wednesday afternoon I put up a DVD beta of Microsoft Visual Studio .net on eBay. It stayed up for 24 hours, then was suddenly canceled due to "licensing restrictions".
Now then, this was a disk that came packaged with issues of Dr Dobb's Journal and Software Development magazine (I get both, which i…
Now then, this was a disk that came packaged with issues of Dr Dobb's Journal and Software Development magazine (I get both, which i…
October 23, 2001
Howdy doo. Sorry about the lack of updates, but I've been a busy person. Been doing some contract work for Civilgrrl, doing earthwork quantities for other peoples' projects using SiteWork LT, which is a 3D grading program. You enter the coordinates of the existing land, along with your proposed str…
October 04, 2001
Shelly's article on the Classic Gaming Expo is finally up. It's here. Enjoy!
I talked to Ernest, and we thought up a really cool way to compensate folks for writing Duck Tiles levels.
Stay tuned. You'll like it!
I talked to Ernest, and we thought up a really cool way to compensate folks for writing Duck Tiles levels.
Stay tuned. You'll like it!
September 30, 2001
Awright. It's pretty-much done except for a little tuning, so I present you my latest creation. . .
Duck Tiles!
It's a tile-sliding game similar to Ricochet Robot or Lunar Lockout, but with a few little touches here and there. It's also an addictive little monster like Bulldozer. It's gonna be a big …
Duck Tiles!
It's a tile-sliding game similar to Ricochet Robot or Lunar Lockout, but with a few little touches here and there. It's also an addictive little monster like Bulldozer. It's gonna be a big …
September 25, 2001
Gotta lighten up the mood here, so I've got two great feel-good items. . .
First is the book Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble by Steven Fatsis. This book is an absolute hoot. It's the author's tale of his adventures attempting to become an e…
First is the book Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble by Steven Fatsis. This book is an absolute hoot. It's the author's tale of his adventures attempting to become an e…
September 11, 2001
I was 34 years old.
I lived in a little suburb of Fort Worth, Texas called Watauga.
I was a self-employed computer game programmer.
I was working on a little game-editor called "Ducky Builder" for an up-coming series of games called "Duck Tiles"
I was expecting my first child to be born in late Februar…
I lived in a little suburb of Fort Worth, Texas called Watauga.
I was a self-employed computer game programmer.
I was working on a little game-editor called "Ducky Builder" for an up-coming series of games called "Duck Tiles"
I was expecting my first child to be born in late Februar…
September 05, 2001
Sorry, folks. The banner was up longer than I thought it would. Had a sudden family funeral that necessitated a huge road-trip (2600 miles in 5 days) during the time I was switching DSL providers.
If you're subscribed to any computer magazines, you probably received that DVD beta of Visual Studio.N…
If you're subscribed to any computer magazines, you probably received that DVD beta of Visual Studio.N…
August 14, 2001
Just returned from the picturesque and quaint little country town of Las Vegas once again. We did some coverage of the Classic Gaming Expo for Gamedev. We'll have a full report with a couple of interviews and lots of pictures up later this week. It's crunch-time on one of Shelly's projects, so it'l…
August 07, 2001
Why am I cool?
Because I've got an autographed copy of Effective STL.
You see, Scott Meyers (the author) got 50 copies from his publisher and decided to give 'em away. He posted in comp.lang.c++.moderated with the deal that you had to send him a snail-mail requesting a copy. He planned to send out 24…
Because I've got an autographed copy of Effective STL.
You see, Scott Meyers (the author) got 50 copies from his publisher and decided to give 'em away. He posted in comp.lang.c++.moderated with the deal that you had to send him a snail-mail requesting a copy. He planned to send out 24…
July 27, 2001
Note, spoilers for crappy movies follow. . .
Dear Mr. Spielberg,
This is a note to request back the $11 and 238 minutes of my life that you wasted with the back-to-back crapfests that were A.I. and Jurassic Park III.
Let me explain. . .
Dear Mr. Spielberg,
This is a note to request back the $11 and 238 minutes of my life that you wasted with the back-to-back crapfests that were A.I. and Jurassic Park III.
Let me explain. . .
- The whole "Rouge City" sequence was as unnecessary as the "pod ra…
July 23, 2001
Back from the funeral. Had a decent time, actually --especially with the extended family after the funeral was over. Everybody was awfully happy to hear the good news about Shelly and I. I'm glad I went.
Thanks once again to the esteemed classic-arcademeister James Hague for setting me straight abo…
Thanks once again to the esteemed classic-arcademeister James Hague for setting me straight abo…
July 16, 2001
Just a sneak peek of up-coming development here. Wanna see what a bulldozer looks like when it's happy?
Ever see a game that takes a tired old genre and breathes new life into it by turning it on its head? IMHO, Wolfenstein 3D did this by combining the old turn-based 3D adventure game with the fren…
Ever see a game that takes a tired old genre and breathes new life into it by turning it on its head? IMHO, Wolfenstein 3D did this by combining the old turn-based 3D adventure game with the fren…
July 02, 2001
If you look down on the 6/14 entry, I was musing about Leor Zolman's STL error decryptor as mentioned in C/C++ User's Journal. Well, I finally got a chance to download and try it out from his site, and it works quite well. I also got a chance to email the author a bit. Turns out he had a small bug …
June 27, 2001
Here's a deal, but you'd better hurry. . .
Step 1: Buy Visual C++ Standard from Amazon here for $91.99.
Step 2: Use the code DEALJUNESALE when you check out for $5 off a $45 purchase or buy $9 more worth of stuff and use the code DEALJUNEWALK for $15 off a $100 purchase.
Step 3: Send in the $50 rebate…
Step 1: Buy Visual C++ Standard from Amazon here for $91.99.
Step 2: Use the code DEALJUNESALE when you check out for $5 off a $45 purchase or buy $9 more worth of stuff and use the code DEALJUNEWALK for $15 off a $100 purchase.
Step 3: Send in the $50 rebate…
June 19, 2001
Looks like the testing staff of the Code Zone is gonna increase by one sometime in February.
When I look at this picture, I think of those commercials for pregnancy test kits and how they claim that they're hard to read. I mean, is there anything even remotely ambiguous about what you see here?
Anywa…
When I look at this picture, I think of those commercials for pregnancy test kits and how they claim that they're hard to read. I mean, is there anything even remotely ambiguous about what you see here?
Anywa…
June 14, 2001
I'm currently 110 pages into the aforementioned STL Tutorial and Reference Guide, and I'm standing by my earlier statement that it's a Good Thing. I now understand how the whole generic algorithm thing works and how the various types of iterators make 'em possible. Before now, the whole concept of …
June 04, 2001
Got a book recommendation today. It's the second edition of STL Tutorial and Reference Guide. The first edition, while comprehensive, was so daunting that only a high priesthood of C++ gods could wrap themselves around it. I've got ten years of C++ experience, and I had to go to a couple of web-bas…
May 19, 2001
Well, the contest was a bit of a disappointment. I only had five entries, which suggests that my audience isn't what it used to be. Not that it'll deter me from writing --I write as much for myself as for any readers that may happen by.
The winner of the free copy of Slay is Dan Hanneman.
On the gam…
The winner of the free copy of Slay is Dan Hanneman.
On the gam…
May 14, 2001
Well call me mister pretentious, as I now have the new ultimate office status-symbol for dotcoms today. . .
The Aeron Chair!
Yep, that's right. Shelly and I got a pair of fancy-shmancy Herman Miller chairs of the future. Got a good discount getting 'em off eBay. I've got a couple of relatives in Mich…
The Aeron Chair!
Yep, that's right. Shelly and I got a pair of fancy-shmancy Herman Miller chairs of the future. Got a good discount getting 'em off eBay. I've got a couple of relatives in Mich…
May 10, 2001
Here's a good freebie. It's Computer Associates' InoculateIT virus protector. It's important to have some kind of virus gizmo on your machine, and this one's free, including updates for new virus signatures.
I'm not using it myself, as I'm using the Ontrack stuff (their motto: Like Norton, but not n…
I'm not using it myself, as I'm using the Ontrack stuff (their motto: Like Norton, but not n…
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