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Spore
What’s wrong with Spore I thought this was exactly the type of this Spore was avoiding. Shouldn’t I be able to make this decision by actually playing the game? If I eat a plant, I’m an herbivore; if I...
View ArticleHow to fix DRM
Why doesn’t the ESRB just put DRM information on the box? So right under “Rated E 10+ for Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, and Fantasy Violence” you’d have something like “CD-key”, “Must be online to...
View ArticleFarcry 2 has the worst activation ever
Farcry 2 uses a CD-key, like just about every other game. It’s a simple process - each copy has a unique identifier, which must be typed in before the game will work - but Farcry 2 botches the process...
View ArticleAdam Sessler agrees with me about game reviews
Here are a few quotes from a recent Adam Sessler’s Soapbox I hate numbered scores. You can like something for some parts and not like it for another. It’s hard to pin something down to a simple...
View ArticlePlayers shouldn’t be instrumental in game stories
I have never been interested in the story of a game I was playing. Never. Ironically, the option of letting a player play a story and become a part of a story detracts from the experience of the story....
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Raycaster version 5
I’ve updated my raycaster by adding variable-height walls. Not very exciting, but it’s a big step up for the engine.
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You can’t view the GAC over a network with Explorer
I don’t know if this is “common knowledge”, but it can be very confusing if you don’t know what’s going on. If you try to browse to another computer’s Global Assembly Cache (e.g....
View ArticleOf HTML, tables, CSS, and more
Here are a few quick thoughts about the sad state of modern web development and design. The tables vs. CSS false dichotomy Tables and CSS are not alternatives. They are not different technologies to...
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Controlling a character with the mouse in Silverlight
Here’s a problem I had recently with a Silverlight game I’m developing. It’s a top-down 2D game, and I want the character to be controlled by the mouse, and I want it to be rotated to face the...
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Your netcasts are missing something
Note: I started writing this a few months ago, and since then TED’s video player has changed. The chapter feature I mention appears to be gone. I tried to find out what happened, but all I could find...
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