Aug 162010
Just a quick thank-you to the guys at Zombie Cow Studios. In exchange for some bug reports on their newest game Privates, I received an e-mail yesterday with free download links to their back catalogue, including the well-written point-n-clicky adventure games Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please. Thank you, kind sirs!
You should definitely check out Privates. It’s a game which was released by Channel 4 in the UK as an information game about STD’s and sex education in general. Don’t take it too serious though – it’s incredible fun, the dialogue is witty and the game contains a bunch of references to other games. And really now, how many games feature a level which takes place inside a cervix. Really. Downloads here!
Jul 262010
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Jul 102010
Jun 142010
Yes, I know, more comics … Thesis was finished this morning, so more interesting stuff to come!
For now, enjoy this great comic which came with the Team Fortress 2 mac update. I think it’s great how people using (traditionally) different systems can play on the same servers now.
Also, the porting of the Source engine to OpenGL is exciting. The benchmarks still result in sub-par performance compared to native DirectX on Windows, but the fact that a big game developer is making a big move to an open standard is interesting. It’s hard to find specific info on how they do it, but they seem to use some kind of emulation layer which maps DirectX-calls to OpenGL – Okay, this is oversimplified, but the point is that it’s not native OpenGL.
This also means that that Steam is coming to Linux, and with that, even more developers might be interested in releasing games on the 3 main PC platforms (Win/Mac/Linux), and thus using OpenGL as a standard. And yes, a Mac is a PC. It’s a computer. You operate it, it’s on your desk. That’s a personal computer. Case closed.
Jun 042010
From the great Penny Arcade:
Apr 022010
A rather good episode of xkcd today.
Mar 122010
A must see:
Oct 122009
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Aug 252009
