Archive for February 2007
Gun Wing, new Binary Sun game released
As some of you may know I make video games – both for work and as a hobby.
About a year ago a chap named Alan Broad posted a demo of a game he was intending to give away on a development forum I frequent. I really liked the game and thought some money could be made so I offered to buy the code and distribution rights. I wanted to tweak the game and release it for sale.
He ...
Dave Bollingers Pixel Robots
I love pixel art, and these little pixel robots are a very cool form of computer generated art. The image on the right shows a computer generated robot using my name (Ben) as the random seed – the starting point for the code.
Generating art with computers is quite a cool thing to do. I have attempted it in the past and whilst I had a small amount of success ...
Ugobe Pleo – an Aibo replacement
I always wanted an Aibo but they’re so expensive and, well, Sony have now pulled the plug on them. That and they seemed to look more ridiculous with each new version (the current one has a potato for a head).
The idea behind the Robosapien was good, and they look quite cool, but once you get one you realize that actually they are rather clunky and not really capable of doing anything worthwhile. They just wobble, and have trouble ...
How to find out what people want
An interesting article from Gameproducer.net listing a couple of different ways for finding out what people want. The ideas shown here are not just suitable for games though and may help you if you are looking for that “next big thing”.
Using sites like Digg is a fairly obvious idea but I had never considered using something like 43things, but when you think about it it makes sense really. Read more on the original post.
Swatch Infinity – Cool new watch
I saw a cool watch the other day that is actually a tiny mp3 player with an lcd screen that can be used to tell the time. It also uses the usb attachment as a clasp to hold the watch on, which I thought was a nice idea. Anyway I thought it looked very cool, but having an mp3 player that’s all I thought.
A couple of days later I saw the watch pictured below.
Harry Potter fanfic
The BBC are reporting on Francisca Solar, a 23 year old lady from Chile, who wrote a Harry Potter fanfic – a sequel to the 5th book, Order of the Pheonix, it is called “Harry Potter and the Decline of the High Elves” and tells the story the way she thought it should be told.
The story ended up becoming massively popular and Francisca now has a deal for a trilogy of books, of which the first has just ...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows release date announced
Yes – I know I am old enough to know better, but frankly I don’t care – so here we go…
The date for the final Harry Potter book has been announced! We will all be able to find out exactly what happens to Harry, Ron , Hermione and the rest of the gang on… (drum roll please) …
21st July 2007 at 00:01
Now back to talking about all the rumors that are flying around.
Oh – and it will ...
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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.