I don’t know what to think about the fact that I just got this, more or less immediately. Gleaming the Cube (Kevin Jackson-Mead) isn’t a very good game, just a little bit of, well, not even wordplay, letter permutation? And it just made sense to me. But it’s not a good game. Read more…
I was skeptical, given the harmless title of Rover’s Day Out (Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman), but this game ended up being pretty enjoyable. The premise is strong, the programming really solid. But… Read more…
I started Spelunker’s Quest (Tom Murrin) more or less hating. It’s a Zork/Adventure-styled cavern crawl with an unsophisticated premise, uninspiring writing and kind of half-assed implementation. Read more…
It’s a one-trick pony, but it’s a pretty good trick. Read more…
Earl Gray (Rob Dubbin and Adam Parrish), how I want to love thee! Unfortunately, despite its excellent premise and careful implementation, I couldn’t get past its (positively spinned) difficulty or (negatively spinned) obliqueness to feel like I wanted to finish. More below the fold.
In an attempt to channel my interest in interactive fiction into something potentially useful to others, I’ll be reviewing several entries for the Interactive Fiction Competition 2009 and posting short reviews/impressions here. I’ve already started on a few of them, so watch this space.
This is a (long) sort-of-technical post about solving some problems with a very useful tool for Palm OS development, Multilink. I had it working great on MacOSX/PPC, but upgraded to an Intel Mac, where prc-tools doesn’t work anymore. So, since I just spent altogether too long trying to get this thing working on Windows/Cygwin, I figured I should document the steps I took to get it up and running, since the instructions on the site are kind of old and no longer entirely accurate. Read more…
It’s been a long while since my last update, thanks to lots of little distractions and life in general. Lots of ups and downs, mostly downs, to be honest, although I’m still happily living in Germany, healthy and working. So, things can’t be so bad. Read more…
So, like many others in the “knowledge worker” biz, I have terrible problems organizing my time. It often feels like I spend 90% of my life in front of a computer, and that 50% of that time is devoted to wondering what to do next. This is all complicated by the fact that I try to divide my computerized existence into a few different modes — job mode, art mode, relax mode, personal-improvement mode, etc.
Enter GTD, which you can google if you’re up to it. Check out 43folders for lots of articles on the subject. No, I never read or even bought or even saw David Allen’s book, figuring that I seem to teach myself everything else, why not this?
Just a quick note that I’ve been steadily posting photos on my flickr page. Give them a look-see if you care to.
The projects area of the bootsquad website has been slowly filling out, with lots of excerpts of newer work. I’m still missing some documentation of a couple of projects, like some work I did with Paulo Raposo, but I think it’s forgivable. I’m going to begin posting excerpts of the music I’m working on, once I feel like it’s not too embarrassing to do so. I’d like to hook up with a designer and do some animations for a DVD, but it’s a little early to make plans – not until the sounds are a bit more fleshed out.
After 3 years of inactivity and probably close to 7 years of no design updates, the bootsquad.com site has finally gotten a little bit of a facelift, and some new content. Some old content is gone, but that’s how it goes. I’ll be uploading more stuff in the coming days, but for anyone who is interested in seeing what’s been going on over the past couple of years, there are finally some excerpts of work there.
I’ve started taking pictures again. After a lot of soul-searching, I ended up picking up a weird little digital camera from Ricoh. Beautiful wide-angle lens, no zoom. Takes crazy-good pictures and allows a tremendous amount of manual control. It’s gotten nothing but shit reviews from the powers-that-be, because it’s expensive and has a lot of noise in the dark. On the other hand, you can leave the shutter open for 3 minutes if you need to. And the noise looks pretty good – they seem to have shaped it somehow, so that it resembles film grain.
Anyway, the gear hound in me just wanted to mention it. I got a flickr account and have started posting my stuff there. If you want to see what talented photographers can do with this little camera, check this out.
Has anyone read this book? As part of my German language training, I’ve moved up from Krimis through something really challenging to this. And I’m finding it really interesting, even given my inability to understand everything. To be fair, I don’t understand everything I read in English, either. That in 1974 the USA already had such a bad reputation, is somehow amusing. Anyhow, if you like hallucinogenic pseudo-sci-fi think-reading, check it out.
Let’s try this out. Welcome to memegarden 2.0.
Over the next days, I will find time to make some modifications to the look and feel of the site, and make it a bit more homey. Until then, please register with the site to get posting permissions. That’s it. This is your space. Please enjoy it.