Archives: News from 2009
February
Feb 26, 2009
Short month; short update
At the end of my most recent post, I mentioned that we had something fancy up our sleeve for this month’s update. Well it turns out that it’s not ready (despite being sooooo close) so I’ll just keep that in my sleeve until next month which will probably need it worse than this one anyway.
March
Mar 31, 2009
The New Dueling Monkeys! GDC! Shotguns! Lightning! Complaining!
March has been incredibly busy for me. I don’t think I can even remember all the interesting stuff that has happened but I’ll do my best. The first and foremost thing worth mentioning is the new site design. You might have noticed? Well if you haven’t noticed (hopefully because you are using TEH RSS TECHNOLOGY) then check out Dueling Monkeys. Jody has done an awesome job of adding a bunch of swanky new features. A few highlights:
April
Apr 19, 2009
Mistakes, more China, more presentations
Earlier today I realized that I had made a mistake. A very stupid mistake with expensive and tragic consequences. My employers are sending me to China to help with a sales trip; I’m going to give demonstrations of how to use our new engine Gamebryo LightSpeed. This evening I realized that my flight left this morning. For some reason I had been assuming for weeks that it left tomorrow. That’s a big mistake. I frantically tried to make new travel arrangements, but the earliest it is possible to arrive in Beijing at this point is half way through the seminar I’m supposed to be presenting in.
May
May 4, 2009
Triangle Game Conference, Taiwan, Mangled Metal, and Gamebryo LightSpeed
Last week, Mike Lee and I gave a presentation at the Triangle Game Conference entitled "Jamming with Games". The presentation was divided into 4 sections that explained Game Jams (such as the Triangle Game Jam).
May 31, 2009
Tornados and Comics
Earlier this month I spent a weekend at my friend Jewel’s river house. The purpose of this event was to see her off as she has now moved to Fiji where she will work for the Peace Corps for the next 27 months.
July
Jul 5, 2009
Homecoming!
The biggest news recently is that after years of toil and dismay, my brother David has finally gotten a VISA for his Wife Joka to live in the US. They should be moving to the states from China sometime this month. It will really be great to get to see Dave more than once every few years. Not to mention that I have a new nephew, Trevor, to play with too. It’s very exciting! I can’t wait to see you guys!
Jul 22, 2009
New Games, new lessons
I’ve been told that sometimes I don’t do a good job with updates because I make a big post about once a month that interleaves a bunch of topics such as personal life, work, and hobby stuff. This makes things a little tricky to parse for readers that only care about one or two of those subjects. Therefore, I have decided that it would be better to make smaller posts a little more frequently. This will help things be a little more targeted, and prevent me from having trouble remember stuff months after it happened.
August
Aug 11, 2009
Daly Homes Inc
My dad turned 50 last Wednesday. In the weeks leading up to his birthday I couldn’t think of anything to get him because he’s the sort of guy that gets whatever he wants for himself. I decided to use my skills to create something for him what probably not many people have – his own video game. The game approximates my dad’s career as a general contractor.
Aug 24, 2009
What is next?
So as you might have noticed, I just finished a few projects. I made the prototype for Comic Game, I worked on Sunny Day at the Triangle Game Jam, and I made Daly Homes inc for my dad’s birthday. Now it is time to choose what to work on next. However, I’ve been trying to decide what to work on next for a few weeks, and there are just too many good options. Allow me to enumerate.
September
Sep 3, 2009
Survey Says...
So here are the tallies to the poll I took last update, including the votes of some people I talked too offline:
Sep 27, 2009
Karma Riot
I’ve been trying to think of a good title/theme for the Mario Kart clone recently and the one that I like so far is KARMA RIOT. Mainly because it’s an anagram for Mario Kart. It also gives me some options for the theme. I’ve worked on it about 18 hours total over the past few weeks, and I think I’m making pretty good progress on the functionality. It helps a lot that my friend Pawel is pitching in as well.
October
Oct 17, 2009
October update
Hey everyone, It seems like its about time to catch up on things; I\’ll start with an update on Karma Riot.
November
Nov 24, 2009
November Update
I think a lot has happened since my last update. However, I can’t really remember what’s happened because it’s been so long. Oops. I won’t wait as long next time.
December
Dec 15, 2009
December Update
Hey all, I’ll be brief this month. Karma Riot is coming along well, but unfortunately, we still haven’t quite hit our milestone yet, so I’ll continue putting off the big update there.