Archive for November 2005
Google Analytics
Google have released Google Analytics. It’s yet another website stat tracking tool, but it does some thing differently. Some of the more interesting features include being able to track outgoing and incoming links. This is very handy for advertising campaigns (something I intend to try on Binary Sun)
Along with the Analytics system (which is now running on Binary Moon), they have launched a Conversion University to try and educate people about generating traffic for their websites. I’m ...
Projects section open
Along wth the new theme released today I have added a projects section to the main navigation. It’s not as pretty as I would have liked but it does what it needs too. I’ll play with how it looks in when I get some free time (yeah right!)
Regulus – New Wordpress Theme released
Regulus has it’s own theme page hereTowards the end of the Bubble Blitz developement I started work on my first Wordpress theme. The making of it kind of stopped and started for quite a while since there were things I wanted to do that I couldn’t.
The idea behind the theme was to create a very simple to customise theme for ...
Cool Bathroom Fixtures
A very cool set of taps that change the colour of the water according to it’s temperature. – [via]
Videogame Aesthetics and the Quest for Photo Realism
I’ve just read an interesting post on videogame aesthetics all about the quest for photorealism and it got me thinking.
Realism is boring, I find the quest for realistic gaming as pointless as photo realistic animated movies. The main problem is that we are surrounded by real things, we see them every day – so what’s the point of reproducing them? Since we’re so aware of the things around us when they are reproduced we notive every little thing that ...
A Big Ad
I don’t like internet advertising and I keep away from the viral crap, but I had to post this Very Big Ad
Marketing genius – I love it.
Parallels between Xbox 360 and the Dreamcast
23 eerie parallels between Xbox 360 and the Sega Dreamcast – an amusing take on the possible future of the xBox. Number 13 made me laugh. Followed up on page 2 by some opposing points to balance the argument but it’s quite amusing.
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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.