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A great Christmas and a bunch of new films watched. Time for the second of my monthly Movie Roundups 🙂Ghost Dog – Way of the SamuraiA wonderful film with Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog, a hitman who follows the teachings...

About 5 months ago my Mum started using Ebay, she asked me to take some photos that she could use to show off what she was trying to sell – which I did. Problem was they were massive, I always...

I’ve played all the Grow games and think they’re great so thought I’d mention that the latest one, Grow Ornament, has been released. It’s festive so get on over there and have a play.This time there are only 6 objects...

Regulus has been far more popular than I ever imagined it would be. So popular, in fact, that I have already created version 2.0ChangesVersion 2.0 has been created specifically for WordPress version 2.0 (hence the name change) and features a...

This weekend, I bought, played, and completed the new King Kong videogame.It rocked!As with all Ubisoft games it’s visually stunning – I went for the GameCube version and it has to be one of the prettiest games on the console....

No file update yet, but I thought I’d make a post on the way Regulus has been used around the place.The big news, at least for me, is that Regulus is now one of the themes on WordPress.com.Regulus has also...

Last weekend I went to Estonia. I haven’t travelled much so it was nice to get away for once, and when work is paying for everything (thanks work, I really enjoyed it) – I’d be silly to say no. A...

I watch quite a few films and recently a lot of them have been really good. I’ve tried to do movie reviews before but am not convinced they turned out as well as they could have so I am going...

Regulus has it’s own theme page here. You can also download Regulus.Towards the end of the Bubble Blitz development I started work on my first WordPress theme. The making of it kind of stopped and started for quite a while...

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...

As I mentioned a couple of days ago I managed to find out what was going on with the WordPress.com api keys.The big announcement is that Akismet has been released. Akismet is a comment spam blocker for blogs.Developed by the...

Now that I have a rough game design worked out I need to start figuring out what features will be included in the game.The feature should be thought of as a baseline to work towards. New things may be added,...

Previously Harry Potter Theory #1: RAB Harry Potter Theory #2: DumbledoreBefore I continue I’m going to give some warning for those who still haven’t read the Harry Potter books. If, like me, you like to be surprised when you read...

Before working out what sort of game to make I need to find out what is in a design document. These are new to me so a quick Google threw up a handful of sites. The most likely was found...

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...

Something I have wanted to do for a long time is create a development diary whilst making a video game. And when I say a diary I mean something public, like a blog, where people can post comments during the...

I do lots of different things during my day job at Miniclip, web design, graphic design, animation, and programming – I have to turn my hand to whatever is required, and I seem to be working on something different every...

I’ve wanted to watch this for a while and having seen Sin City not too long ago I was intrigued to see what other computer generated films would be like, and anyway Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow looked...

Before I continue I’m going to give some warning for those who still haven’t read the Harry Potter books. If, like me, you like to be surprised when you read something new – leave nowThis post is a follow on...

Over at the Free Sound Project they are collecting royalty free sound samples using the Creative Commons license. You can use them commercially (in video games for example…) as long as you give credit to the original authors. You’re not...

Woot – Bubble Blitz is out of the door. I had intended to send it off last weekend but as normal you release a game to other developers and they find a stack of bugs or issues with the game....