While I was cleaning out and throwing away some old junk, I came across some old promotional stuff for iSmell scent technology which I guess I picked up at the 2000 GDC. I saved it for humor value. The company (Digiscents) met its demise in June 2001, to no one’s surprise. I thought I picked …
Category Archives: Development
Apollo Justice
I saw on Rock Paper Shotgun that Capcom has released a free Flash demo of the upcoming Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney game. As someone who recently played Phoenix Wright: Justice for All (my introduction to the series — I haven’t yet played the other two installments), I find this demo interesting for a few reasons: …
OpenWrt
So I decided, on something of a whim, to replace the firmware in my trusty Buffalo WBR2-G54 router with OpenWrt, a modular Linux distribution for embedded devices. (I actually used the X-Wrt packages, which have a better web interface for configuration but are based on OpenWrt.) The WBR2-G54 is based on the Broadcom 4712 platform, …
Visual Studio 2008 RTM install
I finally got around to installing the release version of Visual Studio 2008 on my machine. Fortunately, I checked around to see if there was anything special that I needed to do when uninstalling the beta, and found this article listing the recommended series of steps to uninstall the beta. I seem to remember there …
Code Size is the Enemy?
“Size is the Enemy” is a Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) article that has made the rounds lately. It’s a response to a rambling rant by Steve Yegge about how large code bases are unwieldy, and how language choice affects the viability of software projects beyond a certain size. Early on, Jeff calls out a quote …
Even When You Wrote the Operating System, You Still Have to Work Around Other Peoples’ Bugs
For all the grief that Microsoft has taken in the past about the bugginess (real or imagined) of Windows, they have definitely put in a huge amount of effort to try and erase that perception. Readers of Raymond Chen’s excellent The Old New Thing blog will no doubt be familiar with the many tales regarding …
Fixed: Size of the Moon
The gaming blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun recently ran an article mentioning the next project of the developers of the 2005 PC game Boiling Point. That upcoming game, however, is not the real focus of the article (nor of this one). There’s a bit of pointing and snickering at part of a bug fix list for …
Revision Control
Having recently started to get more serious about development at home, I decided to install a couple of different revision control programs and give them a whirl. First, I installed Perforce. Perforce is a commercial version control system, but it’s free to use for up to 2 users and 5 client workspaces. I was already …
Watching Movies With Film Majors
Having constructed the Potemkin villages that are game environments, game developers just don’t see games the same way that the general public sees them. Every game developer I know has, at some point (and usually, often) sat around with co-workers, playing the latest and greatest game and critically ripping it apart for problems that are …
XNA Game Studio 2.0 Beta is out
It can be found here. The biggest new features include integration with all SKUs of Visual Studio 2005, and support for Live on both Windows and the 360. The Visual Studio integration is huge, in my opinion, if only because it enables source control and add-in support for developers. I guess now you’re also able …