January 2010
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Worklog: Drop Fighter
Ah, Drop Fighter. A sad tale.
I love the very specific genre of futuristic flying 3d shooty games. The first one I really got into was Star Fighter 3000 on the Acorn A3010 (from the Archimedes family of computers used in schools).
At the time, the fast 3d and texture mapped ground, combined with being able to blow up every single item on the map made for a compelling experience. Steady...
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50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland →
These are awesome.
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iRate
I’m already sick of hearing about Apple’s tablet, and it’s not even been announced yet. It’s not even an official product.
Jesus. This is what it’s come to.
I was looking forward to it at first, because I quite like the iPod Touch. “At first” was about a year ago. Speculation has reached fever pitch, websites have filled page after page with nothing but...
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Worklog: Order and Obliterate
I decided, after many years of umming and ahhing, to sit down and tackle a real-time strategy game. The main reason I steered clear of these was because I’m sort of scared of pathfinding. However, I manned up and looked up some techniques, settling with the A* method to begin with. It… almost works. The screenshot is pretty much all there is so far. There’s also a map editor...
GlennBurgess: Finally sat down to watch "In The... →
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+5 To Solving Problems With Made-Up Science
I’ve been checking out the Star Trek Online open beta for the past week. I like it more than I should. And I get to fly around in space blowing things up, an activity that nicely coincides with my own interests.
I think I’ve been away from PC gaming for too long, though. The controls for walking around are seven times more complicated than actually physically walking around. If I use...
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Google Picasa
Maybe I just missed it all, but everyone seems to be failing to go mad about a key new feature in Google’s Picasa. Namely facial recognition.
At a basic level, it’s fairly old hat. My digital camera can recognise faces, and puts little boxes around them on the preview screen in real time. Picasa is a little more ingenious, and can recognise the faces of individuals, as opposed to just...
GlennBurgess: @beeeps Good luck! →
GlennBurgess: @NeilRostance Excellent, love the... →
GlennBurgess: @mokujen Top night, but bad bad... →
GlennBurgess: I am so playing the shit out of... →
GlennBurgess: Guest tweet: Andy Boulton... →
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GlennBurgess: Stuart fowler makes my groin... →
GlennBurgess: @mokujen Wow. Golly. →
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Worklog: The Frontier
My most recent project, a browser-based game, sort of a cross between the excellent OGame, the also excellent Frontier: Elite II, and enormous second-job simulator EVE Online.
Quite a bit to do on this one, but so far it’s not a particularly tough project. Built a new generic PHP class that everything in the game inherits from. It handles all the database stuff, meaning making a new game...
GlennBurgess: No method overloading, PHP?... →
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Down to work(logs)
I could reasonably be said that I have too many ideas that I never finish. I get obsessed with solving the challenges in an idea, then start to slow down and leave stuff unfinished. That’s also partly due to being overly conscious of the flaws in my projects. As this point, everything I’ve had an urge to have a try at is now in various stages of creation, so it’s started to...
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Unluckiest/luckiest man alive? →
Sorry to distract you from your book when I caught up at the next stop, too. Yes, finish your page before taking my fare. No hurry.
Thanks for being such an epic tool, bus driver. Just cos the guy in front of me changed his mind doesn’t mean I also didn’t want to get on.
He won’t be getting a ‘thank you’ when I get off, mark my words. That’ll teach him. Yeah, I can play hardball too.
Google have unveiled a phone? I don’t think anyone saw that coming.
Roads are surprisingly slippy already. Luckily my journeys for the day are now complete, so just watchin’ it fall.
Continue snowing. CONTINUE. Good.
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I hate it when people go on about their dreams
Nonetheless, I’m going to mention one of mine. Don’t worry, not in detail.
Basically, it was the most action-packed dream I’ve ever had. It involved escaping somewhere or someone, one or two of my friends were with me. There was driving, flying, and I think there was a section in space aboard the International Space Station. I possibly parachuted back to Earth, I don’t...
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Ssshhh
Just… stop talking for a bit, would you?
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/texas_arres... →
Sometimes I just don’t understand why certain articles are posted on IT News site The Register. What does this have to do with anything?