Archive for January 2006
Cheapo Hosting
I got to talking to some friends at work and they couldn't believe how cheap my hosting is, and how many features it has. I'm with Dreamhost and, whilst it's far from perfect, it's incredibly good value for money. I use the level 3 plan and get 60gig of hard disk space, and 1.6terabyts (thats 1600 gigabytes) of bandwidth - for the less technically inclined amongst you that's quite a lot.
Anyway I told my friends I'd set up a ...
Be a video game designer
I'm loving the Google Video at the moment.
Westwood College (somewhere in the United States I'm thinking) are advertising their game design course. It looks surprisingly realistic, at least that's what an average day in the office looks like for me...
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Make your website pretty
Research has been done by some clever people that proves that users can base their opinions of a website on their immediate first impressions.
Researchers found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a webpage.
They were surprised as they believed it would take at least 10 times longer to form an opinion.
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Ever wondered what would happen if everyone... ever... got into a fight, and who the champion would be? Well now you can find out. I should warn you that this is a flash animation and it contains much gratuitios cartoon violence.
If, like me, you have recently become a fan of Lemon Demon (like in the last 5 m inutes), the one man band who performs 'The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny', you can visit his site, or
Dev Diary : Design
Well - I got a little behind with my dev diary. First Regulus became rather more popular than I expected, and then EbayEd sunk without a trace (FWIW I never expected it to be popular - it IS rather limited in appeal), I got accepted into the 9rules collective, and then there was Christmas. Now all that's out of the way I can get back to making games.
Hoorah!
StoryPart of the design doc demo I downloaded says ...
2010 – a videogaming year in review
An amusing article from the ever great Wired (I still love that design - despite it being three years old).
Anyway - the review is an ironic look at the possible state of video games in the future.
Sony and Nintendo continue their fight for the minds and backpacks of the nation's gamers by releasing ever-larger portable consoles. The Nintendo XL features six screens, a folding seat and a selection of overpriced candy bars, while the PlayStation Still Ostensibly Portable ...
Save energy with your computer
Save energy with your computer [via]
I'm not a cardigan wearing hippy who lives in a farm with a hundred other cardigan wearing hippies, and I don't grow all my own food in my back garden, and I don't only use electricity created via renewable energy sources, but if I can do something simple like this to save a little bit of the world, I think that's great.
There is also a similar products for us Brits - which ...
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