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... )

GameLoop was fun and rewarding. Met lots of people and took lots of notes. I feel like I'm more solidly part of the Boston game developer community now, for what that's worth. Yey. Talked about Volity more than I thought I would, and Gameshelf less than I hoped. Talked about Project X as much as expected ( Read more... )

Project X is back on the shelf for the nonce; I'm doing a good job eating through my Appleseed pile but there's plenty more to do. There's a finite amount of it, so it behooves me to ker-chunk ker-chunk continue processing it into ca$h money before swinging back into X mode for a few weeks. There is more business X-related communications I can do ( Read more... )

This is the first even-numbered year since 2000 that I've missed Origins. Sorry, folks.

If Project X had bit me earlier, I'd probably would have made plans to go. At least one party involved encouraged me to go anyway, but going for X-related reasons right now would be just a tad premature. Interesting to use this as a benchmark for my ever- ( Read more... )

I've completed Project X's logic library to my satisfaction, and have begun to figure out how the UI's gonna work. All my recent game-UI experience has involved working with raw SVG directives, so it's interesting to approach a modern high-level game programming API with that oddball background. Creating sprites by plotting rectangles directly onto ( Read more... )

X is chugging along nicely. The skeleton of the logic library is complete, and I'm now fleshing it out through writing a whole mess of unit tests, making sure all the muscles twitch just so. It's hard to imagine a time when I didn't make a habit of test-driven development, even though I started only a couple of years ago. Seeing the panel of lights ( Read more... )

It's been a little over a year since I signed my first truly independent work contract. I continue to feel like I've solved "work". I don't think I'll ever need to go job-hunting again. Unlike every other job I've had since graduating college, I'm not bored after a year of it, and I don't foresee that ever changing ( Read more... )

I finished the main quest in Oblivion and then immediately threw away all my fortune and glory to fight in gladitorial combat in the Imperial Arena. I got a real kick out of this - I felt like the CRPG Andy Kaufman.

But then I finished that quest-line and still I kept playing, so I gave the disc to classicaljunkie to hold in escrow until further notice. I have ( Read more... )

Other than the localization problems, have well and truly broken ground with Project X and am roaring ahead, test-driven-style. This is the first time I've picked up a new programming language since getting the test-driven religion, and I have never sat more comfortably with the task. Very nice ( Read more... )

Posted on the Appleseed blog about my adventures yesterday in getting a unit-testing system set up for my C# development. I succeeded, but it took a while. The free-beer "Express" versions of Microsoft's IDEs lack the features that make integrated testing easy.

On chocorisu's advice I'll be starting my Project X work by making a test-driven game logic ( Read more... )