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http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21045Garry of Garry’s Mod expirments with causal iPhone game, nice break down of revenue and graphs comparing paid and ad business models. -...
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Ludum Dare 21
I’m about half way throught this weekend’s Ludum Dare 21 (althought the traffic level is really bad right now.) The theme is Escape.Tools so far:Unity3d 3.4Visual Studio 2010PaintMy Pac Man mechanic...
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Ludum Dare 21 – Update 2
Sick of fighting with Unity. Switching to XNA. And, I have a party to goto now, so I don’t expect too much of a game done by Sunday night. That’s the way Ludum Dare’s go! The Start in XNA
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Ludum Dare 21 – Update 3
The XNA version of my game now surpasses the Unity version. What’s working:Player displayPlayer movementPlayer collision with itemsBackground Board (no wall collision yet)Door key displaysPlayer can...
View ArticleLudum Dare 21 – Conclusion
I didn’t finish. I just didn’t have my weekend clear. You really need a clear weekend to finish Ludum Dare. The tech change in the middle didn’t help.My main take away: Unity slowed me down. I’m too...
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Hurricane Irene
If you want to help the victims of Irene start here: Network For Good: Hurricane IreneHurricane Irene is causing a lot of stir. Game jam challenge: ”You have 48 hours to make a game during the...
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XNA SpriteFonts
While working on Iron Roads today, I tried to use the custom font Radius (a free font from Urban Fonts.) I like how the letters look like curving tracks you might see on a draftsman’s drawing or...
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Free RPG tileset for indie game developers
I came across and interesting Kickstarter project today called Free RPG tileset for indie game developers I’m sending a paltry $10 from my wallet (which I might increase.) I like the idea of crowd...
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Americana Dawn: The Long Goodbye
Here’s another small project I’m funding over at 8-Bit Funding: Americana Dawn: The Long Goodbye It’s an interesting freeware project with an early America setting.
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September 6, 2011
Here’s an interesting way to populate a table with data from a script: BULK INSERT [dbo].[tablename] FROM ‘C:tabeldatatablename.csv’ WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR =’|', ROWTERMINATOR = ‘n’, FIRSTROW = 2 ) One...
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September 13, 2011
Bulk Insert Tip and Gotchas A follow up tip to using the Bulk Insert trick with SQL Server. You can edit the files using Excel and get around the broken comma escape problem by change the Windows...
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Venus Patrol – Kickstarter
I’ve added Venus Patrol to my stable of Kickstarter projects. It’s basically rebooting Offworld for Boing Boing which went silent back in 2009.
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Unity3D #pragma strict Gotch
I was working with some code in a book today and could not figure out why a variable was giving me problems.Unknown idenifier: ‘mesh’. (BCE0005)I don’t usually program using JavaScript much less with...
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Kickstarter Projects Worthy of Your Support
Here’s another batch of interesting game project I’ve supporting on Kickstarter. They a look they need more support:UFHO2 – A Turn-based Strategy Game Organ Trail: Director’s Cut LangGuini a Card...
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Kickstarter: The Last Sleeper
I added The Last Sleeper to my list of Kickstart projects today. I really think the music by Erik Aadahl is well done. The latest update has a nice track, you should take a listen I’m also intrigued...
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Iron Roads Goes to New Orleans
- Figured out how to drawn lines using sprites, Thank you to XNA wiki - Rail links between cities drawn - Added a bunch of cities: Springfield, Memphis, Little Rock, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans -...
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Seeds Of Destruction
I’ve just finished Ludum Dare 23. The theme was Tiny World, so I made a game about Seed warfare. It came out pretty good. You can play Seeds of Destruction: here.
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