Here’s an interesting snippet I found today from a 4 color rebellion interview with the maintainer of a Japanese gaming site called Nintendo iNSIDE.
What do you think the difference is between Japanese and western games?
I don’t know completely, but the image in my head is that Japanese games are handmade whereas Western games seem to […]
This post is about a problem I’ve been trying to solve for a while now. I have a large data structure that represents, in the most general case, all the relationships between the data in a relational database. It’s like a big directory of all the contents in a database with tons of symbolic links. […]
Join us for the DevHouse to celebrate its six month anniversary on Saturday, December 10th!
After 5 successful gatherings, the DevHouse has become the Bay Area’s premier event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. Not to mention our recent addition of Geek Pitches, which has made the DevHouse also […]
Not long ago, David Heinemeier Hansson blogged on the official Rails site about the new upcoming release candidate. Lots of great things are going to be coming out with this release, including a plugin manager for the new plugin system that came out with the 0.14 release. Since this plugin system has been available, a […]
Have you ever noticed Apple is much better at using verbs in the labels of their command buttons than Microsoft? Apple uses the labels “Go Back” and “Continue” in their wizards, where Microsoft would use “Back” and “Next.” I love this. It was one of the first things I noticed when I switched to OS […]
Ken Norton, one of the cool (new) people at JotSpot, recently posted about hackathons and how the JotSpot team held one with excellent results. I love it when cool, smart people advocate ideas I push.
Attend SuperHappyDevHouse on May 28th!
During the GDC this year, I ran into the creator of those prototypes Will Wright showed off a couple years ago that I loved so much, Chaim Gingold. This year, Chaim gave a quick talk during the Experimental Gameplay workshop about Lightweight Prototyping, something he does a lot of at Maxis. Tonight I stumbled upon […]