2016

Frantic Preparation!

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Still burning the candle at both ends here, trying to get everything together! Overworld is looking fantastic, and actually feels fun to play. Things have come a long way since […]

Banner Art

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Work progresses apace on two fronts! First, preparations for the conference are pretty much complete. My talk is done, I just need some willing victims to endure it and offer […]

Red Asteroid Under Attack!

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Since the newsletter went out, CPU load on my little box has tripled. Looks like we got somebody’s attention! Checking the logs, I noticed increased load ever since the newsletter […]

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Sent out the first Red Asteroid newsletter yesterday morning, to everyone who ever signed up for BM. Resulted in a nice 20 players boost, hopefully some will stick around! Here’s […]

EGLX Prep, Overworld Powering Up!

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It’s been a busy week but my EGLX presentation is approaching content completeness. Now I just have to pretty it up and memorize it (which may well take another week). […]

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Nothing much new to report! I’m still working away on my presentation. Santi has finished off many of the Overworld pixels, I’ve tasked him with making a banner for the […]

Hilarious Javascript Bugs

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So here’s an incredibly contrived bug. Javascript lets you check for a value contained within an array using the “in” operator, à la: if (‘reverse’ in stringArray) { … As a […]

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Got back from a most enjoyable time at GDC. Saw a bunch of old coworkers, spent Saturday lounging on the couch and doing fuck all with an old friend. Holy […]

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GDC was fun. Nothing mind blowing, but it’s a good pep-talk kind of thing for video game creative/engineering types. I went to one technical lecture on the back end for […]