(I’m prototyping a new game (working title: “ChessQuest”) – original post here) Three major changes: You have a health bar, and can die The trackball is now supported for movement Performance is literally 1.5x – 2x faster Download link Chess Quest-0.3.3 So, a friend of mine tried it out today, […]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
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Someone just wrote this comment on one of my StackOverflow answers: Fundamentally, this question/answer pair is saying: “Apple: one of your non-programming managers made a stupid mistake in one of your core tools, one used every day by hundreds of thousands of people; since you won’t fix it, here’s a […]
(I’m prototyping a new game (working title: “ChessQuest”) – original post here) A couple more hours work, a few more changes: Overview of what’s changed Obvious from the screenshot: added alternating black/white background tiles. I want it to feel like the traditional chessboard has become the “floors” of the dungeons/towers […]
Last weekend, I was playing around with some ideas for a Chess / RPG mashup. I did some prototyping with Android (because iPhone apps can’t be shared, and Java is much faster to debug than ObjC). If you’ve got an Android phone, try this, and let me know if it […]
Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant is not so much a rant as a sign of someone fighting an inappropriate culture. We saw stuff like this a lot at NCsoft when people were trying to turn around the $100 million clusterf*ck that created hundreds of redundancies all the way to director […]
Step 1 follow link Step 2 app demands your date of birth, for no reason (one day … Facebook will stop being so ridiculous about this, and give the user power, rather than the advertisers. One day…) Step 3 app fails to install (having taken your private data) Step 4: […]
Here’s a new term: The FAILtrepreneur FAILtrepreneur def: someone who tries to be an Entrepreneur, and takes advantage of lots of things intended to “help” them be a success, but somehow finds each “help” pushes them further and further into mediocrity and the failure of their business. Then they go […]
With Scrum, you’re constantly focussing on: How does the application look / work for the user *right now*? …to the extent that you care more about “does this feature work for the user?” than “is the code/art/architecture for this feature ideal?”. “It’s not done” … “but it looks done!” We […]
Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup We covered much ground. The video link is here and quick time-coded show notes at the end of the post in case you want to jump ahead to just one section. But the ground we covered was awesome for anybody […]