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Assassin’s Creed 2
Achievements
While reading this Malstrom blog post this morning, I realized something interesting: Achievements/Trophies/whatever can reduce the desire to keep a game, increasing motivation to resell it. Sure, they can create some sales from people playing the gamer score metagame (who will just turn around and resell it once they’ve got the points), but consider a game you like.
Obligatory iPad Opinion/Speculation/Analysis
Almost everyone seems to have an opinion about the recently-announced Apple iPad.1 If you don’t, I may surmise that you either a) live under a rock, or have been distanced from the internet and tangential media and people enough that you have not yet heard about it, or b) you do not have any opinions at all. Or, potentially c) you just don’t have an opinion about it. But c) seems rather unlikely, because it’s been a very polarizing announcement. People seem to either love it or hate it.
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- I don’t mind the name. People made fun of the name of the Wii for a while, but that didn’t hurt it. ↩
Appvent Calendar Games: Thoughts (Part 2)
Here are my thoughts on the rest of the games I got through the Appvent Calendar promotion. Thoughts on the first few are here. Continue reading ‘Appvent Calendar Games: Thoughts (Part 2)’ »
Vision of the Future
I found this blog, subscribed, and read this article a couple days ago. It’s really interesting stuff about how business really works. If you’ve been reading Malstrom’s Articles about Blue Ocean Strategy and Disruption, this should interest you.
Happy New Year
It’s been almost a month since my last post here. Nice. Ah, and it was about the first few games for the Appvent Calendar. Guess I’d better write the second half, with thoughts on the rest of them, soon.
Appvent Calendar Games: Thoughts (Part 1)
If you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch) and haven’t heard of the “Appvent Calendar,” go check it out. Blacksmith Games has organized an advent calendar where an iPhone game is given away for free each day in December leading up to Christmas. These are games which are not normally free, and are only free for the one day they represent on the “appvent calendar.” I’ve been picking up each of them so far, except I unfortunately missed yesterday’s (it was over 10mb and I forgot when I was in range of wi-fi), but I thought I’d post some thoughts on each of them.
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Forwarded email: Best Christmas Decoration Ever
This is just too hilarious not to share:
Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
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Chrome for Mac
Chrome is finally available for Mac! It’s beta, and so far it runs a bit slower than the Windows version (opening and closing tabs is noticeably a little slower), but it will improve. Already set as my default browser… Safari 4 is really nice, but the “omnibox” is the one thing I missed when using it rather than Chrome. It wasn’t worth booting into Windows for web browsing just to get the omnibox, but now I don’t have to! : )
Worldbuilders 2009
Patrick Rothfuss has just begun his second annual Heifer International fundraiser, which now has a name: Worldbuilders. If you donate you can get lots of cool prizes, most of which are sci-fi/fantasy books.
Trials HD
I downloaded the Trials HD trial (heheh) yesterday. I had seen people talk about it on Twitter but I hadn’t tried it out; I thought it was just some racing game or generic 3D motorcycle game or something. It isn’t.
Kindle Christmas ad… haha
Just saw this ad on Amazon, and it struck me as funny because you can’t currently give Kindle books as gifts. Maybe soon, though?
Task List for 0.2.0
I have made a little bit of progress. These are the tasks remaining to go into 0.2.0:
- Tweak XML serialization/deserialization code for PlannerActionInstance; it may end up staying the way it is right now, but I have an idea which might make it a little nicer.
- Make sure the planner is returning PlannerActionInstance plans correctly.
- Finish making the GoTo action in the test app, and the rest of the test actions for a complete test.
- Make it pass the test, of course; make sure the action parameter inference stuff is working for parameterized PlannerActions like GoTo.
- Add XML serialization/deserialization code for DNA.
- Add an option to test the XML stuff to the test app (it has been tested, but not as a separate one of the options in the test app like the other things are).
