The new Star Merchant game is really starting to shape up, thanks in no small part to Python and pygame.
Tron was a keystone movie in my life as a kid. Now it’s 27 years later. So what does a Tron geek do to get their fix? They play Armagetron Advanced.
I was surprised to see such a quick followup to Owen’s original post at Streaming Colour Studios regarding his brutally honest sales numbers and figures and the reaction that followed. The guy got hammered pretty hard not only by Slashdot, but it seems a good majority of the blogging and geek world.
During the Great Depression, people wanted to forget for a while that they were poor and the outlook was bleak. Many turned to drinking away what little money they had. Nowadays, people have a few more options than that.
This guy got a lot of attention for his brutally honest blog post about making a game on the iPhone. He got a real big lesson in the business of games.
Received word a few minutes ago from my editor that the manuscript is being sent off to the designer. Which means that we have officially completed the editing on the book and are now waiting for the galley proofs to look over for any errors or corrections.
Right now seems to be as good a time as any to talk about the state of the economy and its effect on filmmaking. I’ve heard it all from both sides of the fence now, both good and bad.
Spent the better part of the night porting the data and code over from C into something a little more manageable in Python for Star Merchant 2. Everything appears to be progressing nicely so far. The commerce aspects of the new game are a little different now, which I will explain.
I’m taking advantage of the next week to break away from writing nonstop and concentrating more fully on Star Merchant 2. It’s been a long time coming, and with a lot of the delays caused by other matters of life, it finally looks like I have a break in the storm.
In going through my bookmarks in a vain effort to organize them, I came upon my Games sub-folder and decided to put a few of on here for anyone interested.
