Work is work. There's stuff worth talking about but nothing I'd want to blog about; so goes working for oneself. The overall status of Appleseed and my relationship with it remains stable.

I want to finish the next Gameshelf before PAX, which affords me another five weeks. I've put a lot of work into it (as have many friends), but my motivation ( Read more... )

Cool Planbeast news: Earlier this week I wrote the producers of one of the games that inspired me to create Planbeast in the first place, saying, "Hey, your game helped inspire Planbeast. We should work together, and I have an idea how to do it." Conversation follows, and reception to this proposal has so far proven a complete success: not only are ( Read more... )

People have been asking, so here is where stuff be at:

The Volity Network (including the webclient): Personally, am completely burned out on it. I have no plans on doing any active work with it at any point in the foreseeable future. The proper thing to do now involves wrapping an open-source license around the webclient and letting it fly, right ( Read more... )

Planbeast has a twitter feed now, where it jabbers about every new public game event that someone schedules. Sometimes it babbles about other stuff too. I like this.

(FWIW, I've been a lot more active on Twitter lately, myself, though you aren't missing much if you already read my status updates on Facebook; I mirror most of em via ping.fm ( Read more... )

Nifty new Planbeast feature: Personalized Planbeast cards, little images saying what you're gonna do next on XBL, with links going to the event's detail page:


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Wired reports that unscrupulous players now have the power to disrupt online multiplayer Xbox games by DDoSing individual players. It's possible thanks to some new tools that make it easy to get the IPs of the people you're playing an Xbox game with, rent a slice of botnet time, and willfully firehose the former with the latter ( Read more... )

Been on my Xbox 360 a lot lately, both to play games and watch TV...

I learned from "Penny Arcade", of all places, that most (all?) of Doctor Who, new and old, is now available via streaming Netflix, which I am able to enjoy via the Xbox. So, I finally got to watch "Blink". Hooray. Even classicaljunkie liked it! We are likely to go back and start watching season ( Read more... )

Broker than I thought I was. Suddenly unable to pay bills, prior to this check that came in the mail yesterday. I shall toddle down to the bank after I finish writing this. Check is fairly fat, so it'll last for a little while, but fun spendy-spendy time is over for me until my next period of full-time consulting.

I did manage to do my taxes, ( Read more... )

How do you find other players for games that aren't the top five FPSs? I don't know! I'm asking!It seems that for any game other than Halo / Gears / TF2 / wev, the only way to get a decent XBox Live game going is to contact remote friends offline and set up a game. The Quick Match button is almost always futile, and plenty of games that seem like ( Read more... )