Archive for April, 2009

The List

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Doh, I got like 10 e-mails already asking about "The List" I mentioned... A little tired with explaining it's just a very incomplete, totally subjective, personal list. Visit gamedevmap.com, scan Scandinavia/Netherlands area and you'll get most of them :). Several people asked if I considered other Polish companies. I did, ...

…something begins

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

(...or continuation of this note) Damn, it seems like that laptop thing is more serious than I expected – motherboard died. They’re not sure yet if they can replace it, when or how much will it cost. I had a tiny note about virtual functions there, but cannot be arsed to ...

Dead laptop

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Damn, it seems like my Dell died. It just won't start, something with power most probably (it doesn't matter if I try with AC or battery, though). I'm going for quick vacations on Monday, so won't have time to fix it before... Hopefully next week I should have it back. ...

Realtime Worlds – paid overtime

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

I normally don't try to link to every interesting industry story, there are better sites for this. However, I'm gonna make an exception, because it's worth notifying. Scottish developer - Realtime Worlds (Crackdown) has just announced they'll be offering paid overtime for its employees. While "no overtime" would probably be ...

Random links, 05/04/2009

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

"Almost perfect..." - story of Word Perfect (competitor of MS Word, for young readers), interesting read, Two-part blog entry from Jeff Vogel, if you've ever wondered on indie RPG sales - this one's for you (Jeff's owner of Spiderweb Software, probably the most famous indie RPG developer), Superannuation - great source of ...

GDC update

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Wow, kudos to GDC folks, they're really fast this year, many presentations can be found at the official conference site already. Even better, documents have meaningful names for a change, instead of typical s1533262.pdf. I've updated original post with some more links. I didn't put separate entries for new publications ...