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Time and Motivation

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Many beginners - not absolute beginners, but beginners still - ask questions pertaining to

The Progression Paradox, or Getting Ahead of Ourselves

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Learning resources identify a problem/challenge and then supply methodologies, techniques, best practices, rules

Showing vs Telling

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Video games are a visual medium, yet virtually all introductory resources/articles/tutorials are

Getting Started

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Anyone who's been around GameDev, or, indeed, any online game development or programming resource

RSS, XML, XSL, XHTML, Atom

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! In the interests of democratic syndication support, PMS should support whatever syndication format the

Abandon ship! Uh, Course Correction! Er...

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I pulled out of PyWeek. I had a rough week that resulted in very

Power for Good, and other fables

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I'm making a nice, easy little point-and-click adventure game for PyWeek. No, it's not

Publication and the Uses of Metadata

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Metacite's going slower than expected due to interruptions, but I'm still making good progress.

The Metacite Publication Management System

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! So I mentioned a few days ago that I was working on a project,

Getting Up

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! There's a street party for Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure [https://en.

Expressing my politics... and hoping to sell out!

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Continuing on the theme of my previous entry, it hit me while playing Cambiemos

Window shopping

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Art, one might say, is derivative. This is not to say that a given

Exploring existential themes

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Okay, so I'm in the PyWeek Game Programming Competition, and entries are expected to

Wow, it's dusty in here...

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Been quite a while since I made any entries about these parts. Took a

I'm leaving…

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! …For a while. I graduate in three weeks, and I plan on taking a

Book II: Epic Gameplay

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I've spent most of today playing God of War. What an incredible game! In

Book I: Procedural Content

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! You ever have one of those days when things just seem to come together

Alternatives to Abject Failure

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I know I said I wouldn't continue harping on the state of CS instruction

The Unreliability of Other

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Yesterday (Thursday, April 7) I had a cookout. Turnout was interesting; the "friends" who

Browser Obsolesence, or "Firefox? big deal!"

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Okay, so now I check out Dashboard. It's not revolutionary; Linux desktop environments have

It's official: I'll be buying a Mac

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I've long contemplated satisfying my technolust and industrial design envy and plunking down the

The Evolution of Contextual Play, or "Playing the Story"

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Halo 2. Resident Evil 4. God of War. While I haven't played all three

A Brief Study of Reticence

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! This will be the last of my entries bitching about the state of learning

An Emphasis on Architecture

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I've long been critical of the way programming is taught in most computer science

Is There Such A Thing As Bad Publicity?

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I watch a lot of TV. I mean a LOT of TV. I also