Home cooking with DS homebrew

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 […]

Is offline access on an online document editor important?

For those interested, I posted a follow-up comment over on FriendFeed to my Google Docs / Buzzword post. One important aspect I forgot to include in that post: offline access. GDocs has offline doc sync through Gears. You would think Buzzword would be a shoe-in for offline access through Adobe’s AIR platform, but so far, […]

Moving back to Google Docs from Buzzword

I’ve been flirting with Buzzword since just prior to its acquisition by Adobe and inclusion into their online office suite. The interface is gorgeous and the amount of functionality is astounding for an online document editor. However, all that sparkle comes with a cost. Every time I go to Buzzword to work on one of […]

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 […]

Using Twhirl – so far, so good

So, I’ve moved from TwitterFox back to an Adobe AIR app for my Twittering. This time, it isn’t Snitter – I’m now using Twhirl. So far the experience is pleasant. The interface is easy to use and understand, and it runs fast and doesn’t eat up too many CPU cycles (more of an effect of […]

Twitterfox

This complaint is going to be in regards to Twitterfox, a Twitter integration tool that is a Firefox extension – but it can apply to any of the number of Twitter tools out there. I installed the tool yesterday and immediately fell in love. My biggest problem with keeping up with Twitter conversations is that […]