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Gaming, for Science!
Science, for gaming? Yes, I have strange hobbies. One of these involves playing lots of Dungeon Keeper 2, an absolutely fantastic game. Replaying it for dozenth time I realized that I had never reached the top of the high score chart. This is where the science begins.
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Next Poject...
Power Grid simulator in progress. (A co-worker requested it.) Anybody interested?
[This is of course assuming SC2 doesn't eat my life/ambition.] -
Localize in French
Downloads:
France 74%
US 13%
Italy 4%
Spain 4%
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Turing tests
Someone is doing a Turing test on my blog.
It has to be a spam bot, right? But if it is then where is the spam? There’s not even a link included.
So my co-worker and I decided it must be a Turing test. An AI is reading blogs and generating comments (though I’ll admit that this comment was so vague it probably hadn’t even read my blog. It’s been ( Read more... ) -
Meta Meta!
Anyone want to write programs (scripts) for your phone, on your phone?
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/microsoft-touchstudio-phone-program-phone
I thought I was the only one crazy enough to do something this meta. I'm not sure which blows my mind more ( Read more... ) -
Gmail API notes
Notes for future reference:
Gmail is one of the only google services that doesn't have a public http based api (no the read only atom feed doesn't count http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/docs/inbox_feed.html).
So I heckled a few googlers about this until they directed me here: Gmail apps (andriod, etc) just use IMAP and then use hacky extensions ( Read more... ) -
Initial thoughts on France: (While I work off some jet lag)
Spent two weeks in France. One week with just Jenny and I in Paris, and the second week with an old friend wandering the southern countryside ( Read more... ) -
Color professional anyone?
Hey artistic folks, can I get your profession opinion on something?
Per my previous post, I published a simple Windows Phone game. Now I'm working on the next version and I want to let people pick their own colors from a list. You all know I am the last person who should be picking out colors, so I submit the question to my friends who are much ( Read more... ) -
Published...
I published a game. Weird! Well, we'll see if anybody tries it...
For those of you who rightly ignore me when I'm geeking out, I take (mostly) board games and digitize them into computer games for fun. Largely I do this to see if I can teach my computer how to play better than I do. Frequently I also do it because some games just have too many ( Read more... ) -
Should there be an app for that?
I got a new Windows Phone 7 recently (HTC HD7) . It's actually pretty easy to develop for (C#/.NET-like APIs). I even registered as a dev with the app store so I could keep my phone unlocked for development. But as usual I'm short on interesting ideas.
Now seeking suggestions: Do you have a WP7 and wish it could do something specific, but can't ( Read more... )