So, now that I have a DS Lite, what’s next beyond just playing some great games? Homebrew. I’ve already ordered a new microSD card and, based on suggestions and pointers from a known homebrewer on the Colony, I also ordered the R4DS cart from System Gears. Both shipped within the past couple of days, and […]
A short lesson in excellent game design
I spent a far larger portion of my lazy Sunday afternoon than I intended to with a little online game called Auditorium. It’s such a wonderful example of definitive, practical game design, that I felt it worthy to dissect. The game is challenging, but not frustrating. Detailed, but not overwhelming. I can’t really describe the […]
World of Goo, de-coagulated
One of my early favorite indie games on the WiiWare channel was Lostwinds, by Frontier. It was a simple concept, with gorgeous artwork, and fluid controls. But the problem was, it was a short adventure. A fleeting experience with very little replayability. World of Goo by 2D Boy has solved that problem, to a certain […]
Could Des Moines be a web 2.0 hotbed?
A while back, Jesse Stay (FriendFeed | blog) asked a question on Twitter (which I, of course, responded to on FriendFeed, as did many others). It was a simple question: Just curious, if you had one city in the U.S to live, based on affordability and web 2.0 networking potential, where would you live? I […]
Kevin Lawver leaves AOL…and Ficlets
Kevin Lawver, the AOL developer behind the amazing short collaborative fiction site Ficlets, has taken a position with another company after 13 years at AOL. I learned about it first in a tweet earlier this morning. That was followed not long after by a subsequent blog post on Ficlets. Kevin built an absolutely amazing site […]
Back to Firefox: sorry, Flock – I tried
So last night, I downloaded and installed the latest 2.0.0.14 release of Firefox (I’m just not ready for beta3 yet). I’ve been a Flock supporter for about two years now, but it was just time to switch. It wasn’t necessarily anything that Flock did that made me go back to Firefox. It was what it […]
Head tracking with the Wii remote
This evidently made the rounds back in December, but I’ve just now caught it over at Evil Avatar. Evidently, an enterprising young engineer figured out to make a program that allows you to simulate head tracking using a Wii remote and the sensor bar in reverse order. Absolutely brilliant. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw]
Twitter + tracking = Twacking?
Twitter has implemented a cool new feature called “tracking“, which I am officially dubbing “twacking” because it sounds dirty. Basically on your phone or IM Twitter account you can send the message track <topic> and anytime any Twitter message appears on the network with that string in it, it gets sent to you. So I […]
Everyone’s upgrading their technology!
Man, first Google adds search to Google Reader (something I’ve been begging for since I began using GReader two years ago), and now, Meebo adds file transfer — something I never even wanted, but I’m happy to take now that it’s available. Thanks for upgrading the technology I use every day (for free!)!
The (possible) future look of Firefox version 3
Via Lifehacker, I’ve been pointed towards Alex Faaborg, a user interface designer working on the upcoming Firefox 3, who has posted some screenshot mockups of some of the experimental designs they are working to incorporate into the updated browser. Alex adds the usual disclaimer, about how the designs may change or potentially not even make […]