Read more » It's been a while since I posted anything, mainly because I've been doing pretty much nothing with my free time but work on my first XNA project. It's an Arkanoid/Breakout style game called Aardvark and it's coming along nicely. Yes I know there's about 3 Breakout clones released on XNA a week, but I don't care. Mine looks better than most of them, and this is more an exercise in completing an XNA project start to finish than trying to market anything groundbreakingly new. So without further ado: The first batch of demo videos!
Read more » I never posted the resolution of what happened to my '97 Saturn SL2. Really this is half the story. So there I was in the office parking garage sitting in my dirty car that's filled with broken sunroof glass on the seats and floor. Livid.
Read more » I haven't done much in the way of game development lately. I had messed around with XNA 2.0 creating a simple tower defense game until I found out no one else on the planet could actually play this game because of the bizarre ass way Microsoft decided to do XNA. I will say it's bizarre as hell because I can write a game in Blitz Basic and it will run on any old ass piece of hardware I throw it at. Unfortunately for me, doing web development in C# and in Visual Studio has completely and utterly spoiled me, and using Basic and the Blitz editor just leaves me longing for better debugging tools, Intellisense and a more powerful object oriented language.
Read more » Dear shit. Why does every god damned web page on the internet have one of these fucking ads? I'm not going to post a picture because they are disgusting. There's some horrible ass stretch-marked pasty blubbery gut peppering every site I see. Whoever clicks on these banners, causing this company to make money, causing them to invest in more banners: Do everyone a favor and have your hands chopped off so you can do no further damage to my retinas.
Read comments » I've been meaning to blog this for a while, so apologies to anyone who could have used this info in the meantime. Over New Year's I stayed in a nice Doubletree hotel in Houston. The Doubletree Hotel Houston Intercontinental Airport to be exact. I was quite excited to see a bunch of my friends, but more importantly, to party and play PS3 in the hotel room. Yes, I brought my PS3 to Houston. Let's move on.
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Señor Idiot has stated that I have had a moventure in my travels from the state of friendship to eureka. He speaks the truth, and there are a number of topics to espouse upon. The easiest to document involves the loss of a twelve-year-old friend, as I mentioned previously.
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I anticipated moving being difficult and complicated, but I underestimated the sheer magnitude of time it has sucked up. I started looking around the country for new employment in the beginning of September. Now it is late January, over four months later, and my possessions still lie in unsorted piles around my seat.
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Exactly one year ago after an additional week had past I posted This amazing blog about hooking up a Sega Genesis controller to the PC via a USB cable which sucks because RetroZone is now NintendoOnlyZone and no longer offers the USB Sega adapter. On top of this the button mapping of their adapter was really strange. They had buttons mapped to the d-pad, in addition to the d-pad being, well, the d-pad. What this meant was when you plugged it into, say, the PS3, it was completely useless.
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Am I missing something? It's a giant chat room with terrible games that you have to line up to play, and some how this is supposed to incite you to pay real money for fake clothes and furniture? Somebody explain the hype behind this again. Welp back to Little Big Planet.
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