A Gamers Manifesto

May 30, 2005 | Video Games, Links

A Gamers Manifesto - [via]

A rather opinionated view of the state of video games today. There’s a fair amount of truth in there though!

My Next Game

| Video Games

I have been working on my next game for a while now. It’s going to be an updated version of Bubble Bomb. This may seem like a strange choice since Bubble Bomb is essentially ‘Yet Another Colour Matching Game’ (YACMG?). The reasoning was very simple though - it’s the best selling game on Binary Sun!

Why is the game so popular?

This is something that intrigues me - In general I don’t play colour matching games, they’re ok and I don’t dislike them but there are plenty of other games that I think are more enjoyable. However I’m not the target audience of this sort of game.

Bubble Bomb is a very simple game. The very low computer requirements, and the tiny download size mean it’s open to the largest possible audience. The game itself is very easy to get into - all you have to do is run the game, …

Cheat Sheets

May 29, 2005 | Links

I love Jack Daniels has been very busy making a series of cheat sheets to help web developers in their work. I don’t know if any more of these sheets are planned but if they are created I will add them to the list below.

• MySQL cheat sheet
• PHP cheat sheet
• CSS cheat sheet
• Mod rewrite cheat sheet
• Javascript cheat sheet
• RGB Hex Colour Chart cheat sheet
• HTML Character Entities cheat sheet

Star Wars Easter Eggs

May 27, 2005 | Movies, Links

You may have noticed that I enjoyed Star Wars Episode III.

If you’re a fan of the film you may be interested in some of the Easter Eggs (hidden surprises) that were hidden throughout.

Note that if you haven’t seen the film yet there may be some spoilers waiting for you.

Half Life 2 physics demo

May 26, 2005 | Video Games, Links

Physics in games is cool. I think there are a lot of possibilities with physics based gameplay. It’s just a shame my maths knowledge is so limited, otherwise I’d have a go at making something like this myself.

Good Customer Support

| Links

I wish everyone would read this. I’m sure lots of customer support people will read this and nod their heads. I’ve done a small amount of customer support and if people followed the rules outlined on the 37 signals blog, the process would have been much more pleasant for everyone involved.