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Spring!

April 18, 2010

It’s really starting to feel like spring. This week I started running with short-sleeve tops which is a first for the season. Speaking of running, I only have 2 weeks before the BMO Vancouver Half-Marathon. I did a 20km peak run today and felt quite strong. Now I just have to taper before race day. [...]

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Interesting Experiment…

March 21, 2010

On Saturday morning I decided to upload GDC Simulator 2010 to Kongregate. I figured – Why not! What was interesting was the reaction to it. Comments were scything. Clearly nobody got the joke. The game was averaging 1.63 stars last I checked. But… it was played over 1000 times in a 24hr period. This was [...]

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EchoExplorer – Post Mortem

December 14, 2009

First off: Wow. What a weekend. So many thoughts I want to share. So many emotions flooded out during the experience. Let’s see if I can try and compose this a bit. Playable: http://www.refrag.com/gamedev/ld-16/ LD Entry URL: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-16/?action=rate&uid=1277 Time Lapse Dev Log: via YouTube, via MobileMe The Plan: My high-level plan for the weekend was: [...]

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Games I Played – September 2009

October 1, 2009

Shadow Complex I touched on this title last month. What really interested me about this title was the Gamasutra interview. Donald Mustard became someone I must meet when he said… Super Metroid, to me, is the pinnacle of 2D game design, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t be pushing that pinnacle forward and see what [...]

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Games I Played – August 2009

September 10, 2009

August was a busy month and I didn’t get much gaming in. There were a few memorable titles however. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 Simple, fun, memorable, $1!!!! If you have an Xbox360 and you don’t own this game you are dead to me. This could very well be the catalyst that turns the [...]

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PAX 09 Happened

September 7, 2009

Well I had all these ambitions of blogging about PAX as it happened. Guess that went out the window. It was a great weekend and here are some highlights. Thursday: Meeting up with fellow Canadian travelers for some Cheesecake Factory goodness was great fun. Then I was off to the Pre-PAX Dinner which was prime [...]

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Back to Game Development

September 1, 2009

It’s PAX week. I’m heading down to Seattle on Thursday morning and am very excited for this year’s gathering of uber dorks. Since I have a bunch of sabbatical time banked, I decided to round up my two days off to give me a full week. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week is dedicated towards [...]

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