So. After the recent events (1.Background and 2.What Happened?) where the IGDA Board has triggered a PR “FAIL”, and in passing made a mockery of the IGDA’s own flagship initiatives … does it matter? Does anyone actually care what the IGDA does anymore – especially after how it’s handled this […]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
25 posts
(if you’re not sure what the IGDA and TCE are, read the Background post first) This post lays out the IGDA event where (IMHO!) the IGDA’s own Board undermined the IGDA’s most famous public initiative, and what the Board said about the matter when challenged over it. 2008 IGDA Leadership […]
This is a series of posts about one of the big problems facing the games industry: honesty, exploitation, standing up for better quality of life, and actually “doing, not talking”. IMHO it has added poignancy given the vast layoffs that have taken place across the board in the past 12 […]
(4 posts in one day? Yeah! Too busy to be regular right now. GDC is on the way) At the end of my commentary on the formation of NC West, I added almost as an afterthought a little comment about Europe and the MMO industry: there’s a gaping hole in […]
The IGDA Leadership conference 2009 just launched their call for speakers. The form is pretty brief, so I wrote some personal notes on what I’ve just submitted (so I don’t forget if/when they accept the talk!). It just occurred to me that a large percentage of my blog posts are, […]
You would think this is easy, seeing as how it’s an essential, simple, part of any programming project. HA! You obviously haven’t used Apple’s shockingly bad IDE (Xcode) much, have you? You can read the extremely widely-linked blog post – http://www.stormyprods.com/blogger/2008/11/using-static-libraries-with-iphone-sdk.html – which is incomplete, and doesn’t work properly if […]
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1917163/?ps=5 If you have any interest in iPhone development (you have ideas for apps, or you want to start coding for your iphone, or just want to meet other like-minded folks over beers), then come along. Bring friends. Bring iPhones (I’ll bring my laptop so you can download and try […]
I’m sitting in the Departures Lounge at Helsinki airport, which now has end to end free wifi (I can see 3 or 4 different wifi stations here, on two channels). It’s the “open a web browser window first and hit a button to say “yes, I agree to your terms […]
In case you missed it, due to some incompetence / deliberate nastiness from Google, I’m being forced to pre-emptively move the RSS feed for this site. Sorry. New URL (you should change now, or you won’t receive any more posts in your RSS reader) is: http://t-machine.org/index.php/feed/
Today, I attempted to login to Feedburner. I had to go through not 1, not 2, but three different adverts for “here’s why we’re forcing you to create a new Google/Gmail account, you really want to do it, it will be good for you”. The third one has a link […]
Disappointing No spam filter (there is one, allegedly, but it’s invisible, non-configurable (!), and missing obvious spam words) (there are comments on the official forums from 3 years ago saying “we need some basic anti-spam tools” and the author replying with “we’re working on it”) Annoying No spam controls for […]
I mean this in the nicest possible way: I suggest you save us both some time: have a look at my LinkedIn profile, and see what I’ve done – http://www.linkedin.com/in/adammartin – it’s shorter and clearer than a CV/Resume, too. If you find that you have something that would interest me, […]
This is IMHO a very important point. I don’t normally tell people this – I’m quite happy for them to go around misunderstanding RS, Club Penguin, HH, et al and screwing up instead of providing credible competition for me :). But since the new CEO has just said it: “RuneScape […]
Mark Cuban’s blog is an odd one; I really can’t remember why I started reading it (presumably linked by a VC blogger would be my guess), and yet even though I read very few blogs I’ve stuck with his. It’s not like the standard SiValley other investor/commentator blogs. It’s a […]
Yesterday’s announcements of layoffs at NCsoft (both in USA and Europe) caught many people by surprise, judging from the number of emails and conversations I’ve had where people have brought it up. I think it’s interesting to try to understand why this is happening, and given Scott’s point that this […]
(today Lorien joins previous awardee Aardvark Swift) There’s an insidious new form of spam on LinkedIn: people posting job ads on the linkedin forums. This is particularly stupid because you lose all the benefits of LI’s built-in job search system. I saw a great one today from Lorien plc (clearly, […]
I’ve made a highscore system for iPhone, complete with registrations, email confirmations, global highscore board, and iPhone client-side rendering. I’d like to make it available as a free service (it’s live already, and included in a game I’m about to publish). I’m looking for volunteers who want to try integrating […]
Hey, guys, I need some help! Feedburner will be removed from the internet in 20 days time, which means I will no longer have an RSS feed. Because of the way Google works (they do not allow multiple Google accounts to be simultaneously signed-in on the same computer), it will […]
I can no longer develop iPhone Apps. I am on my eighth attempt to download the 1.75Gb 2.2.1 SDK – without which, XCode refuses to even talk to my iPhone any more, because I allowed the iPhone to upgrade. EDIT: I have it! I HAVE IT! YES! NO MORE PRAYING […]
Someone emailed me recently to say he’s setting up a new game development studio, and that (for various reasons specific to his situation) the company will consist of around 90% recent university graduates. Without asking for details, I can make a pretty good guess that there’s government funding involved – […]