Archive for September 2005
Flash 8 ‘making of’ video
Macromedia have released a short video that shows the ‘development’ of Flash 8, with a short look at the history of the product thrown in for good measure. A few interesting bits in there such as the vast amount of bugs they had to fix, and the fact that they work insane hours putting even the hardest of the hardcore game development companies (EA?) to shame.
Warning : There is a lot of typically American whooping and ...
Use Flash 8? Win a car…
The flash games competitions seem to be everywhere this year – except this isn’t a game competition. Scion (owned by Toyota) has started a competition to win a Scion car of your choice.
All you have to do is create a ‘thing’ (whatever you want) that makes use of their media to promote their cars and the car is yours. There are a few limitations, it has to be under 10 meg and shorter than 2minutes, but in flash terms ...
David Hasselhoff and Ice-T team up for new album
I haven’t done any David Hasselhoff posts in a while but I couldn’t pass up on this one
Ice-T is to produce David Hasselhoff’s first hip-hop album.
The pair are neighbours in Los Angeles and are said to have struck up a close friendship.
Hasselhoff has had some success as a singer, releasing seven albums. He’s also said to be very popular in Germany.
The Hoff doing Hip Hop – this is going to be interesting…
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A Game of Thrones
A couple of months ago, shortly after I was passed a book baton, I was walking home from work when I passed a book shop. I had finished the book I was reading that morning and needed something to read so in I went. As normal the Sci-Fi/ Fantasy section beckoned and what did I find? One of the books mentioned by the person who passed me the baton, A Game of Thrones (written by George RR Martin). ...
Wordpress.com Invite up for grabs
Checked my gmail this morning to find I have been given a wordpress.com invite. For those who don’t know wordpress.com is a new hosted blogging system – ideal for those who don’t have the technical know how to set up a blog on their own site. When I signed up for updates site no-one knew what the service was (except for possibly the developers), and now that I know I’m not particularly interested.
Since I have Binary Moon I don’t ...
The Million Dollar homepage
A rather enterprising uk student has created a website to help him pay his student fees – the Million Dollar Homepage
The idea is simple. The homepage constists of an image that has a million pixels. You can buy the pixels for a dollar each and they are sold in blocks of 100. You can then colour and link your block(s) of pixels to any website you like.
Maybe I could use this to advertise Binary Sun..? If you’re interested I ...
Bubble Blitz Review
WooHoo – the first review of Bubble Blitz is in and it’s really good. I wasn’t expecting reviewers to actually say the game is good because of the unoriginality so it’s nice to get an email about something like this when I get into work.
I’ve submitted the game to a few other games review sites so hopefully there will be some more Bubble Blitz reviews in the not too distant future.
More Nintendo Revolution controller information
There has been a lot of talk about video gaming since my post about the Nintendo Revolution controller. Kotaku has a pretty good round up of all the articles that are spread around the net.
The most interesting thing though, is that apparently the new controller will have some sort of cradle. I was under the impression that the expansion port at the bottom would just be for extras such as the analogue stick already shown, but now people ...
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Rocket Boards is a super fast 3D rocket boarding action. My first "commercial" (shareware) product. Didn't do amazingly well but was a good learning experience
Bubble Bomb is a polished update of a game originally built by Warren Marshal (who works at Epic games - developers of Unreal and Gears of War)
My own update of Bubble Bomb, Bubble Blitz was almost a total rewrite adding loads of new features and a shiny new look.
Seths Puzzle Boxes is a puzzle game with a surprisingly enjoyable story line, unfortunately it's quite short so won't take long to complete, but while it lasts is great fun.