Now Let Us Try Earnestness

Essays on animation, cars, life, software and storytelling

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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&

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

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

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

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

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

Introductory Interfaces, Mastery Interfaces

An interface can be well-suited to persons already familiar with a set of conventions peculiar to a system or activity, but horrible for a beginner. Such interfaces are called "mastery interfaces."

On Windowing, Palette Menus and MDI

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! MDI sucks. I think I've caught your attention, so now I can

Cathederalization

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! The Daily Irritation When installing software for Windows (using MSI, of course), notice how

Click-happy, Click-sparse

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! First off, I am aware that there is a UI mode for Windows that

On middleware: Production and other stories

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! John Hattan wrote these words, and this is the second time I'm

Future Focus

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! At the GDC I got a definite sense of a "sea change"