new Guild Wars 2 vid released!
a new guild wars 2 video is up and explains and shows why it’s going to be really goooood! people will get to try it out for themselves for the first time next week at Gamescom! now back to fixing bugs…
a new guild wars 2 video is up and explains and shows why it’s going to be really goooood! people will get to try it out for themselves for the first time next week at Gamescom! now back to fixing bugs…
with @party this weekend came the first releases of a new demo group vrtx (pronounced “vertex”). we did two entries for the freestyle graphics compo and got 2nd and 6th place. kirill did this sweet spider web scene and guybrush, kirill, and i did the mazelized text. watch out for more cool graphics and demos [...]
there are a bunch of great free windows apps that i find myself continually recommending to people so i figure i’ll finally post a collection here in case anyone else hasn’t found them before. feel free to comment if there’s some super useful one i’m missing! defraggler is a hard disk defragmentation tool. drop box [...]
so 16 years ago i started keeping a journal, 14 years ago i started saving all my source code, 10 years ago i started saving regular screenshots of my projects and since then have been accelerating the rate at which i store off snapshots from originally around one every month to by the end of [...]
last night i had a great time with kirill, guybrush, and matt at microsoft testing out and playing with live music visualization stuff. guybrush and i will be doing the visuals for the portland, oregon and seattle, washington stops of the data beez tour! it’s been a really fun experience for me so far as [...]
this weekend i upgraded my desktop machine to the intel i7 920 cpu. it’s a hyper-threaded quad core chip and completely smokes the dual core it replaced. i got it so i could do some computation heavy processing but haven’t finished that project and so can’t show the results yet. however while coding i did [...]
time for another random updates post! i’ve been having lots of fun with web stuff like facebook, twitter, vimeo, and youtube. now anytime i want i can have the internet eat up hours of my life while i accomplish absolutely nothing! wow it’s just like an mmo. (speaking of which i’m level 65 now in [...]
this weekend i got a pet hamster for my cat scratchy! he’s a super fat black and white dwarf hamster who loves exploring and eating pie. i haven’t given him a name yet so you should help me by leaving a comment with your suggestion. some names i’m considering are: domino, doob, itchy, lump, modo, [...]
i recently spent a week in the mecca of online gaming – seoul, south korea. it was awesome! i toured the NCsoft mothership, attended G* 2007, attended a televised starcraft tournament, visited the demilitarized zone between north and south korea, and ate lots of CRAZY food. it was a really great trip and i hope [...]
while exploring some random number sets i discovered a universe of spiders perpetually battling each other. their brutality is rather shocking and while i don’t know how long they’ve been at it i do hope that someday they can resolve their differences peacefully. in the meantime you can watch their battle unfold live at the [...]
ack i’m finally feeling better after getting sick my last day in Finland and spending the last two weeks with mucus and blood pouring out of my major orifices and my brain acting like meat sauce all while trying to catch up on everything from work! ohhhh it’s been miserable. those Finns sure have some [...]
my demo touring continues this week with a trip to Finland for the Assembly demo party! i’m so psyched! trace, neurokin, and i are working on a small demo to submit. we’ve had very few days to work on it though so are trying to keep the scope small. hopefully we can finish in time. [...]
ouch!! i just got hit by this best buy scam. apparently best buy teamed up with time warner to sneak recurring charges onto my credit card. yeah nice try! i only caught it by luck when i glanced at a statement online today and saw $39.95 from best buy and assumed it must be from [...]
oooh now that all my internets are working again i should mention an exciting development for russian speakers. an old text i wrote about packing lightmaps into texture sheets has been translated into russian and posted on www.gamedev.ru! you can check it out at www.gamedev.ru/users/coriolis/articles/Packing_Lightmaps russian letters are so cool! they’ve even got a backwards [...]
thursday night coming home from a company christmas party there was a crazy windstorm and i had to dodge branches and such that littered the roads (which didn’t seem all that odd because the party was at an arcade so i had already spent a couple hours driving crazy in rush and other games). i [...]