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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....

This post was written before the Deathly Hallows was released. As such I didn't know for sure who RAB was. This post looks at the arguments for and against RAB being Regulus Arcturus Black.As I mentioned previously I fancy having...

A survey has been done that finds out what web trends annoy people.The least popular thing, pop up windows, doesn’t surprise me at all. I use FireFox so rarely get pop up ads, but if I visit a website that...

The Harry Potter post I made when I finished reading the Half Blood Prince has been way more successful than I had imagined it would be. In fact, I didn’t even consider it would be different from any other normal...

I received the music for Bubble Blitz (ooh look – it has a name!) last weekend and adding it into the game has made everything seem much more complete. There are a couple of small bits of art to finish...

I have been passed a book baton by Phu Ly from IfElse, who is one of the few people who comment here (thanks Phu 🙂 ). I suspect he saw me complaining that no-one passed me the musical baton that...

So… anyone else read it yet?I bought my copy late Saturday morning, there were loads of copies available, and a rather miserable looking witch handing them out. I bought my copy in Bexleyheath, which is fairly close to where I...