So Valve has been generous enough to provide a Linux build of Steam for many years now, but the most recent numbers from Valve show only about 0.74% of Steam users are using Linux. For comparison, about 3% are using Macs. So these numbers aren’t great, especially if you were thinking that Valve and it’s […]
I have a coworker, a fellow developer, who wanted a nice car. He only had about 3k to put down so he quickly found himself at the under 10k and buy here pay here lots. So he ends up buying a 2007 Audi with over 100,000 miles with a good chunk financed. Between the extra […]
The past six weeks have been quite busy for me. I was asked to help make an isomorphic prototype by another programmer at work and of course I jumped at this opportunity. I love isometric stuff and early in my tenure I made several isometric projects in our environment. Over 16 years it seems I’m […]
Since this weekend is a super-exciting release weekend for my company I’ve been chained to my computer to fix bugs that don’t exist. But it’s the only time I get to remote in so of course I’m wasting my time being being unproductive. My most recent source of unproductivity is Shenzhen I/O. A slick puzzle […]
I was thinking of doing a piece on Halfway because I sank an ungodly amount of time into it, but then I started playing this little gem. The Fall is an absolutely delightful action adventure title. Set in a world where humans have designed and built robots and AI for everything; administrating factories, maintaining other […]
Plug & Play is billed as an interactive film and explores themes of sex, love, intimacy, so and so forth in an interesting and abstract way. I found the art style to be quite appealing. It has a strange crudeness to it which just seems to work when combined with the sheer bizarreness of some […]
Lately I’ve been acquiring a lot more titles that proudly feature the Unity logo at their start. Though through little similarities I can kind of guess which other games in my library have been built with Unity. Most of the time, like with Guns of Icarus, it’s a reassuring thing to know that beyond the […]
A few weeks back I went to a play test of a local developers game called ReallyGoodBattle. There was another guy trying to show us his game, but it was a bit rougher and the team appeared to be decentralized so the game’s writer was the one presenting and he didn’t quite ave the crowd […]
I’ve been busy writing actual code at work and that’s been sapping my creative energy, can you believe that in 15 years of non-stop production no one ever bothered to implement a version of quick sort, or any kind of sort that actually worked? And that’s why this post will always be true. But somewhere […]
I finally finished moving and what better way to celebrate than by buying another motherboard, case, and some some RAM to put my leftover CPU and graphics cards to work! As a budget conscious (broke) and savvy (stingy) consumer of computer parts I’ve been working on building my old FM2+ socketed board into a decent […]
Alien Isolation is first-person survival horror that beautifully emulates the look and feel of the Ridley Scott film Alien and Cameron’s sequel Aliens. Developed by Creative Assembly, probably best known for the Total War series, there was cautious anticipation for the game when it was nearing release back in 2014. Other Alien games had been […]
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