Archive for the 'Work' Category

amazing textures

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Looks like there hasn’t been any new content in awhile, but here’s yet another site with textures: amazingtextures.com.

make virtual machines for vmware online

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

This is uberkewl — there is a web-based tool for making VMs for the free VMWare Player.

Go download and install the free VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Go here and follow the directions: http://www.easyvmx.com/
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Profit!

3D Data Formats

Monday, June 5th, 2006

I found a great collection of 3D API specs and data formats: Paul Bourke - Data Formats. Looks good, and it’s info I need.

Programming Fonts

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Found on digg: Programming Fonts. I’ve been a Lucida Console dude for a long time, but I’m willing to take Dina and Proggy out for a spin.

Textures

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

I’m clearing out some bookmark tabs to a more permanent home. Here are two good texture resources:

textures.forrest.cz
www.texturebin.com

5 Best Freeware Games of 2005

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Well, it’s 2006 already, but this is a good list of the 5 Best Freeware Games of 2005. I’ve tried Mono, and it’s kewl.

Wavefront .obj format

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Here’s the best reference I’ve yet found for the Wavefront .obj file format: http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/data/obj/obj_format.txt.
I’ve got a back-burner project that needs to import and export to this format.

Guitar Hero

Monday, December 26th, 2005

I’d only read about it until just a couple of days ago. But it’s true: Guitar Hero rocks. It’s a great game. It’s fun, it looks great, and while this might mess you up if you actually want to learn to play a real guitar later, it’s worth it.
I think I’ve got […]

Sketchfighter

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Screenshots of this in-development game at Ambrosia Software look awesome: Sketchfighter.

Cloud

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

One of the things I do on saturday mornings is to take a look at new and interesting game demos. I found this one, but I didn’t try it until today: Cloud. It’s simple and beautiful. Excellent.

Ten Rules for Web Startups

Monday, November 28th, 2005

The Ten Rules for Web Startups don’t just apply to web-based startups, they also apply to any business that is starting from almost nothing.
I’m at my 3rd real startup now, the 4th if you count an internally-funded startup inside a Fortune 100 company, and all of these rules apply. All startups that I have […]

’80’s games online

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Here’s a good collection of ’80’s games available online: www.1980-games.com. Unfortunately, I don’t see Crazy Climber in their collection. I love Crazy Climber.

PSP Updates

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

I’ve been trying to decide if I should update my Sony PSP from firmware rev 1.52 up to 2.0 so that I can use the web browser, and then downgrade so that I could still run homebrew. Unfortunately, I don’t want to turn it into a glossy black brick. One of the better […]

Sony’s PSP Portal

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

A new Sony PSP Portal Site has been launched. (via Joystiq).

Xbox 360 roundup

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Engadget has a good collectionof initial Xbox 360 coverage here: Xbox 360 coverage roundup!
I have to agree with Joystiq’s review of Geometry Wars. In early October at iNDIEGAMESCON 2005 I played it. It looked great, and it was fun.