January 2011
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Why I left my Games Job
This is more of a reply on my earlier article of How I got into the Games Industry (which was originally written in 30 August 2007) as since then, I have left the industry and thought it be interesting to detail why for balance.
Ultimately, the main reason for leaving was for quality of life (QOL) which is a hotly discussed topic in industry circles. Each I was on crunched to some degree, some...
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Board Game review: Boggle Flash
I didn’t think I would do a review on a non-computer game but I liked this game so much I though it deserved one.
Boggle Flash is based on the popular game that I used to play as a child, Boggle where the aim was to make as many words as you can from a gird of random letters within a time limit.
The only rule was that each letter in the word had to be adjacent to the next on the gird,...
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Games Design Courses - Are they worth it?
Disclaimer: Everything here is of my own opinion and do not necessarily represent any other party’s views.
Note: When I refer to game developers, this means I am referring to everyone involved in the development of the game such as programmers, artists, producers, designers, etc.
There has been increasingly more enquires about becoming a games developer in forums related to games careers...
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Motorola Atrix 4G - HD multimedia dock and laptop... →
This is a not so new concept done really well from what I can see from the video. To have your phone as the main ‘hub’ and use it via many different shells such as desktop, laptop or a multimedia device from the outset is a great convergence of uses for technology.
Awesome! (This is pretty much my next phone unless something better comes from CES 2011).
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Getting TimeMachine to use an external drive on...
I was trying to do this a couple of days ago and couldn’t find anything concrete on the Internet regarding my particular setup for how I wanted to use TimeMachine.
I have an iMac which is my main PC and an always on Mac Mini which is being used to play and store media connected to my TV. The Mini has a 2TB external drive and a partition on that drive of 500GB intended for TimeMachine for my...