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RVT

gman — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:38:09 +0000

You never know what you’re going to find on the internet. I was searching for screenshots of games I worked on and I found someone has played through Robocop Vs Terminator, an NES game I wrote that was never released. It actually looks better than I remember it.

It wasn’t good

Moonlighting

gman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:32:35 +0000

Or, doing things “on your own time”.

First let me make it clear “I AM NOT A LAWYER”. But…my understanding of the law in California is that if you create something related to the business of the company you work for, EVEN ON YOUR OWN TIME, it belongs to the company, not you. That

TGA Thumbnails (and viewer) for Vista and Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bit

gman — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:54:00 +0000

Several years ago I wrote a TGA Thumbnail plugin for Windows 2000 / XP. I skipped having a Vista machine and just recently upgraded to Windows7 64bit. I thought that now that I finally have a 64bit machine to do development on I’d try upgrading the plugin to work there.

I started researching how

Designing Better APIs

gman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:33:00 +0000

Is there a best design for an API? I don’t know but I do have my own guidelines for good vs bad design. One guideline I try to follow is that it’s good to design an API to make it hard to use incorrectly. Here’s a couple of examples I’ve run into recently.
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p4reconcile

gman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:54:00 +0000

If you are using Perforce (p4), sometimes you need a way to reconcile a folder. Both P4WIN and P4V have this feature to some degree. The command line p4 does not so here’s a small program to do just that.

In p4 generally you are supposed to check things out. This

My $345 Quest for a Space Channel 5 part 2

gman — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0000

This is the story of how I spent $345 for a video game, Space Channel 5 part 2.

It’s no secret that I *LOVE* the Space Channel 5 series of games. I understand that they are simple rhythm games but the combination of style, musical dance numbers, music, characters, just everything

Infinite Journey

gman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

I suppose technically this isn’t the first O3D game since there are a few in our samples but this is the first O3D game created by a 3d party.

The developers said it took them about 5 weeks with no JavaScript experience and no O3D experience. They’ve clearly got some smart people

O3D Presentation at Google I/O 2009

gman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:54:00 +0000

I gave a presentation at Google I/O about O3D. In it I show getting started creating a small game in about 20 minutes.

(the sound cuts out for 30 seconds at 16:48)

You can download the a PDF for the slides

O3D

gman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:33:00 +0000

You want to know what I’ve been working on for the last year? This is it!

You can learn the details and try some of the demos at http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/

I think it’s incredibly awesome but then I’m bias. For me what makes it awesome:

It runs on 3

Little Big Planet’s Disconnect

gman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0000

I skimmed this post on Brainy Gamer about Little Big Planet and Creativity.

That and some of JC Barnett’s comments got me thinking, ….

As amazingly cool as LBP’s level editing is, does anyone except game creators and game creator wannabes care?

That post above talks about how amazing