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Requiem for a Team
This last Tuesday, the EA axe swung again, lopping off the Boom Blox team.

This is an amazing team, full of passionate dreamers and doers, who can take on a new platforms like no others I’ve seen. It has been my great pleasure to work with them, and I sincerely hope we will work together again [...]
Conversation: Advice for Aspiring Game Designers
I had a great conversation recently with a couple of good friends, both grizzled industry veterans. A couple of quick introductions, before jumping in.

Gareth Hinds kicks off the conversation. Gareth is a creator of graphic novels, whose excellent adaptations of Beowulf, King Lear and The Merchant of Venice are not to be missed. He [...]
LA Times Loves Boom Blox Bash Party
Very cool. Boom Blox Bash Party, which I finished up work on several months ago, has made the LA Times Top Ten Video Games of 2009. If you haven’t played it, go out and find a copy. Here’s a hint:
Boom Blox Bash Party It’s good darn fun!

But hey, you’re busy, and who has time to [...]
From NGons to Planetary Fractals
This is the next step in the evolution of the nGon toy. But into what is it evolving? That’s a very good question. Try here for a full size version.
Boom Blox Bash Party Announced!
Now it can be told. The game I’ve been working on announced today. Here’s the skinny:EA Will Ask Steven Spielberg To Make A ‘Boom Blox’ Level
Boom Blox Bash Party in Pictures
Spielberg’s Boom Blox Bash Party Rocks Wii This SpringI wish all games could be this much fun to work on, and the team is the [...]
Better Living Through Correlative Analytics
I read with great delight Kevin Kelly’s recent post over at the Technium, "The Google Way of Science". Mr. Kelly is a big fan of intellectual broadsides – technological Zen koans, and this one is a doozie. The elevator pitch is this: As we accumulate more and more data, petabytes of the stuff, [...]
Protoyping Gameplay in Flash
Prototyping gameplay can be a quick and dirty* way of answering design questions. The big ones, like: is it any fun?Here’s a Flash/ActionScript prototype I did for my last game, a Wii title called "Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed."
There’s a more detailed discussion of it over here.* If you do it right.

Jun 062006

Gallery Back Online

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Which seems to suggest to me that it was offline at some point, almost as if someone had deleted the gallery entry page by accident, and failed to notice it for a few weeks.

Not that could happen on a well run site like this one.

I took the opportunity to update the gallery software, so something good came out of this in the end.

That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

Here is the gallery.

Jun 012006

Pardon the Weirdness

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I'm testing a new WordPress plug-in I'm working on, and the site may behave a little erratically in places.

Feb 212006

User Comments

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I'm getting reports that it's taking a really long time for people to get their password email after registering.

While I investigate this, I'm just going to turn off registration for the moment, as an experiment. Anyone should be able to post for now.

It will probably end in tears, but you don't know until you try.

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