I spent a long weekend visiting my family and it was an interesting experience to see how people manage to live without internet access. Neither of my parents are technologicaly inclined and it was a sweet reminder of just how many chores are solved almost in their entirety using the internet. For instance, I can’t […]

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Working on a new game that’s what.
Something a little retro with some modern sensibilities, I’ve been saving up my pay from my day job so I’ll be able to hire an artist and a musician to work with. It’s not going to be a huge project, more like an “in-betweener” job. Just to increase my […]

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More correctly what programming languages am *I* going to learn.
The domain of software development is huge and it’s next to impossible to learn everything. It’s even more impossible (if such a thing is possible to be more than impossible) to become a master at everything. In fact, the domain is so huge that its impossible […]

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In a brave attempt to port my RPG project into VC++ express I’ve realised that I’ve reached a bit of a local maximum. Which basically means in order to go forward Im going to have to break a lot of stuff. Fix it. Rewrite it. Put it back together and continue…
This has resulted from my […]

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Since I’ve mainly worked on rather informal projects where I have been the only programmer, I’ve developed a rather bad habbit of just hacking away at code until it works. My larger projects tend to get rather complicated. They become convoluted, messy and just downright ugly. Part of the reason why I decided to go […]

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So its been almost one year since I started working (part time) on an RPG engine. So it’s probably a good time to recap everything that I’ve got done so far, and how much work I have yet to do.

You might recognise the graphics in the left screenshot from RPG Maker XP. I’m borrowing […]

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Recently I came across a really cool piece of software that lets you simulate actual paint on actual canvas. The program is called Art Rage and was developed here in NZ.
Now, I’m no artist but the program is a ton of fun and I’m even playing with the idea of getting a couple of books […]

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I thought I’d share a pretty odd sensation that I had the other day…
I needed to look up something in a book. So I flipped to the index, found what I was looking for and then went to the page that it was supposed to be on - and I couldn’t find it. Then I […]

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I just got broadband internet installed in my flat and it totally rocks! To everyone who is still on dial-up, you owe it to yourself to get a better connection. You have no idea how cool high speed internet is.
I’ve already checked out some stupid home made videos on YouTube, listened to some of my […]

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By the end of 2007 I will have…1. Released a Freeware “Mini-RPG” - Approx 2-4 hours of gameplay.2. Found funding for a much larger RPG to start work on in 2008.3. Make a new and interesting blog post at least once per week.4. Maintain a B+ average at uni - 3 Semesters to go, and […]

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