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| Welcome to Thom Robertsons Personal Blog | Sunday, September 05 2010 @ 10:35 PM PDT |
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Sony doesn't want my money! I want to play the Scott Pilgrim downloadable game today. It's available for only $10 as a digital download from the Playstation store. Since I've previously used my credit card to buy PS3 downloadable games, I expected no trouble. But I got some.I fired up my PS3, logged onto the store, selected my purchase, and agreed to add money to my "wallet". BUT no go. The screen tells me my credit card can't be processed. This isn't so crazy; the card I used is...
Musings about teachingI'm teaching this fall. Well, co-teaching a couple of classes that were designed by another instructor. But these classes aren't as advanced as the ones I've been teaching for the last 2 years. I'm working with students who 1) aren't as far along, and 2) are sometimes not committed to games as a career path. And that makes me think again about the whole thing.I love teaching, because...
Chrontendo!How did I miss this? "Doctor Sparkle" makes hi-quality free videos about video games. Specifically, he's made a series of videos playing EVERY game made for the NES/Famicom, in chronological order. And they're good!Blog: http://chrontendo.blogspot.com/ Link to download episodes: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=chrontendo%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_movies These videos are quiet and scholarly, completely unlike anything you'd see on G4TV or (God help us) SpikeTV. I like them; I'd PAY for them; and that...
Win a $100 gift card!I'm trying something new, over at http://contest.eochu.com/I'm enticing people to give me feedback on my game Planetary Governor by offering them a chance to win a $100 gift card. If I had the money, I'd pay hourly for game testers, but then I'd be more than an indie/auteur game developer, wouldn't I? I'll post further as a get results (one way or another) on this experiment.
Brand GamblinBrand Gamblin is a friend of mine. We worked together at Acclaim back about 8 years ago. I also helped him start his "Calls For Cthulhu" project (http://www.callsforcthulhu.com) . Since then we've both left Austin, and chased our muses in different directions.Brand worked with Sid Meier on...
Planetary Governor V0.16Planetary Governor V0.16 is now available! Lots more events, that behave in different ways. 2 new "skills" (Science teams and Engineer teams). Plus more UI improvements. Let me know what you think! http://www.eochu.com/dl/PlanetManager016.zip
Chiptunes collectiveI loves me some 8-bit sounds, so I'm passing on what I just found; a website full of chiptunes.http://8bitcollective.com/ I found it off this article in BoingBoing. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/03/with-chiptunes-silic.html happy listening!
Planetary Governor V0.14 now available!I've done a lot of work on my current game, Planetary Governor. Aside from the full 3D globe, I've got things like economy, culture, and pollution being modeled.Screenshots: http://www.eochu.com/dl/ss/ss014A.jpg http://www.eochu.com/dl/ss/ss014B.jpg http://www.eochu.com/dl/ss/ss014C.jpg http://www.eochu.com/dl/ss/ss014D.jpg Download this PC game from http://www.eochu.com/dl/PlanetManager014.zip . ZIP file, 3.5 meg. Thanks for your feedback!
Now I know why PC games died!I'm currently installing Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2. I apparently still have several hours to go, and more hoops to jump through.I bought the game at Target for $40. Brought it home, pulled off the (taped on) outer sleeve, tore the plastic wrap off the DVD case, opened it, and removed the disk, manual, and tech tree poster. The disk went into the drive. Autorun brought up a dialog, which asked me...
The nature of my Jedi powersI've been working on this Planetary Governor game for a couple of weeks now, and I think it's teaching me more about myself.As you probably know, I'm an expert at slapping together simple games, usually involving little spaceships going Pew! Pew! These games are collections of simple parts, each part is pretty easy to understand, and the relationships between the parts are even more simple. Bullet hurts spaceship. Not hard to understand. The complexity of the game comes from the interactions of lots of these parts over time. Planetary Governor isn't the first time I've... | |
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