This is really one of the most amazing things I have ever seen on the web...

Here is a guy that took a simply retail Canon PowerShot digital camera, a weather balloon and a bucket of wires and reached 30,000m or 100,000 feet.

All of this for about $500 of parts.

I just get chills thinking of what we are capable of - and I get anxious for us to get to ( Read more... )

So now that I have been back in the states for a few months I have had some time to play some XBLA games.  There are a ton of great games out there.  However, I have the great fortune to be friends with the guys that have created the 3 games that I have played and enjoyed the most on XBLA!

DefenseGrid by Hidden Path Entertainment in Seattle

Age of ( Read more... )

We have been able to cut our hosting costs of GoPets by 90%.  In these times ( Read more... )

Hey how cool is it when Cory Doctorow says your talk is ... creepy at GDC?

www.boingboing.net/2009/03/24/real-money-trading-g.html

It generated some good comment flow over there.  Much of it the normal gut reaction against RMT or item-based business models, that is common in the game design community and the digerati - but not so much in the actual ( Read more... )

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2009/03/02/manifesto-for-a-game-development-studio-or-any-creative-tech-company/#commentsRead more... )

Okay so we really do not need fluffy toilet paper ( Read more... )

Okay so I had an extremely cool week - and all of it in Seattle ( Read more... )

The DICE Conference was a good one for me this year.  It was truly great after 5 years in Korea to be back living here in LA again and catching up with so many people that I have not seen for years.  I also got a chance to meet a lot of cool people for the first time.  I met Richard Garfield of MTG fame, and I am looking forward to having a chance ( Read more... )

 It has been a long, long time since I have posted...

So many changes in life... here are a few updates:

OBAMA!

I loved the sour look on W's face as he watched true greatness sweep him aside onto the pile of bitter ashes of history.

So after 5 years living in Seoul Korea - I am back!

Thank you Obama for accepting the challenge of leading us back from ( Read more... )

Hey!

I have a new book out... this time I had a LOT of help!  Erin Hoffman did the heavy lifting on the editing and book design, and together we pulled in 15 great contributors!  Check out the list below...

Who wants to be the first to get a review up on Amazon??? ^^

But, seriously... this compilations of essays discusses in depth the state of ( Read more... )