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Short little post about C++ const-correctness
Ok, so I don't really like the concept of "const-correctness" in c++, but I never really had a solid reason to dislike it besides laziness. Hence I never really bother to mark class functions as const...
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Spoilertastic Criticisms of Metroid: Other M
Metroid: Other M was a good game, not by metroid standards at all (i think metroid prime is the best game of all time though, so its tough to live up to it) but the action parts and bosses were usually...
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Playing around with genetic algorithms
I played around with some genetic algorithms today for the enemies in my next flash game.Here's a quick overview of the game (without giving away too many spoilers about it):The player is given a...
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Things That Happened at GDC This Year
Important secret meeting with secret peopleAwesome secret indie party, played spy partyHad a vodka-wasabi cocktailAwesome gamma party (didnt get carded)Broke my laptopMet the Mega64 guysMet JOHN...
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Airline horror
Ya, just flew cross country yesterday. Seattle to Chicago to Hartford. I usually fly Southwest, but I let my mom book my ticket and she booked me a ticket on United.Anyway, the boarding process was the...
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Target Audience: Animals!
A concept recently struck me, has anyone actually made a video game whose target audience isn’t humans, but animals (or a specific kind of animal)? Of course, there are some challenges with designing a...
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The Plot of my Next Game
In the year 30N, a child was born. His parents were hiding from the Institution, aliens who rule over the galaxy with an iron fist. Shortly after being born, their hiding place was discovered. The kid...
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Your environment is a character too!
I read a lot online about how storytelling and character development in games can use improvement, and how dynamic choices and the ability to fail and replay sections of a game multiple times make...
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Hosting woes.
Enough is enough. GoDaddy just automatically charged me $431.71 for hosting renewal for glaielgames (it's been 5 years already I guess). The confirmation email had no info as to which credit card was...
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How to Monetize Flash Games Efficiently
It seems like you see a title like this at every conference and on every website. And they all indirectly state the same thing. Go ahead and take a guess.Give up?Quantity, not quality.Yup, that’s the...
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Art Games
"Art Games", I was introduced to these when I first played Braid, or rather, when I first started reading discussions online about Braid. It's amazing how people could analyze that game as much as...
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Procedural Text
Fun little experiment.Basically I scan through some text files, record the number of times pairs of words appear, then go through and use them as probabilities one word will follow the next, and...
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How to ask me a question
This has been on my chest for a while now. I often get asked questions about coding flash over aim, email, pm, etc. I don't mind answering questions, but I am not a personal tutor for everyone.Anyway,...
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Some things that piss me off
In no particular order:- Lawyers, they created a market for themselves with all those crazy legal terms which as a consequence requires the existence of lawyers to make the world go.- Commercials for...
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Changed blog format to blogger instead of wordpress
It's easier to useI'll see if I can get my old posts imported.AlsoClosure Development BlogIf you want closure news
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