Archive for March 2006
Wordpress widget bar – coming to a theme near you soon.
I have spent a bit of time working on Regulus this week.
Today the Wordpress Widgets plugin was announced. They have been available on wordpress.com for a while and I spoke to Andy from wordpress.com earlier this week and have had the plugin working in the theme since Tuesday. It just needs a few tweaks and I will release it all into the wild.
The widgets aren’t the only new feature, with one thing in particular that a ...
Zelda Fan Film Trailer
I have watched a fair few fan films, generally from theforce.net (which appears to be down at the moment). With the exception of a couple of Star Wars ones they’re generally pretty rubbish. Today I found out about a new fan film based on Zelda. The trailer is really rather good, especially considering the total lack of budget. Watch out for the slightly dodgy wigs, and special effects, but otherwise it looks very promising. Here’s hoping there is ...
Casual Games can help your mental health
I have mentioned this before, but feel it is important enough to keep repeating
Unfortunately the article linked to in the last post has been turned into a pay to view thing, which even the glorious bugmenot can’t sort out, but this new article from Yahoo! talks about things from a slightly different perspective.
The study cataloged research papers and media stories about cognitive exercise. According to the report, research indicates that people ...
Cool Lego Aircraft Carrier
Not much to say about this, apart from the fact that it’s one of the bestest Lego models I have ever seen (and I’ve been to Legoland).
The models at Legoland are really nice, but they are also really big, things like this that have such insane amounts of detail whilst keeping everything to the traditional Lego scale (the little yellow Lego men can sit in the planes) are what I love.
A quick disclaimer: I have nothing to ...Web 2.0/ Star Wars
Filled with names like Flickr, and Meebo web 2.0 has become very well known for it’s unusual names – much like Star Wars.
Anyway now, I assume to show how ridiculous these names are, there is a web 2.0 names quiz (web 2.0 or Star Wars character).
For what it’s worth I scored 38/43, largely because of my knowledge of Star Wars rather than my knowledge of web 2.0 companies.
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Splintercell for real?
The title may be a bit misleading but Gizmodo are reporting on a new dart which contains a camera which can be used in much the same way the spy cam can in the ever so popular Splinter Cell games.
Prototype number 1
I’ve been very busy recently so the dev diary has been the thing that takes a back seat (again). Also I have never liked releasing things this early in case people aren’t impressed/ interested, or simply because I don’t want negative feedback. I have to keep reminding myself that this is the whole point of doing the development publicly. So let’s get it over with…
Prototype 1Ok – Prototypes. I’ve never bothered prototyping games before, and to tell the truth ...
I’ve been interviewed!
I was recently interviewed by a new video games blog, Foogaming. They concentrated on my work as an independent developer with my games site binary sun.
They’re a really nice lot over there and are posting lots of news about the gaming world. If you’re interested in reading a bit more about me and my games you can head on over and check out the interview.
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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.