You see the occasional spike here and there when we’ve gotten linked to on some story. I used to be a lot more aggressive about going out and getting linked to on some political article but now I’ve stopped doing that because people have become hyper-sensitive to political viewpoints (even my Facebook comments get turned into stories ). I suppose that’s the price of success – greater scrutiny. JU used to get around 4,000 visitors a day (tiny) back in 2007. Now it’s ar...
Uncle Marv, Aunt Connie, and dad opening gifts. The Xbox is playing the photo album from last year. Silly me with Ryan, Al, my mom, Aunt Karen and Alex.
Hearing my 12 year old son and his 8 year old brother playing together happily. My 2 year old daughter laughing. Playing computer games Hanging out with my wife Writing computer AI An elegant algorithm A good mocha in the morning Hanging out with my friends at work talking about whatever Reading a good book. A glazed donut on a cold Monday morning.
Next week the Impulse Preview will be officially released. May 5, 2008 will be the "official" launch of Impulse.
The terrain in Ashes of the Singularity is procedurally generated. This opens the door to randomly generated maps in the future despite being so large and so detailed.
If you’re not familiar with Galactic Civilizations then you are in for a treat this May when Galactic Civilizations III ships. GalCiv is the ultimate sandbox game. The universe is your domain and you are in charge of a fledgling interstellar civilization. In order for the galaxy to be immersive, the computer opponents need to be interesting, challenging and intelligent and do so without having to rely on cheating. You can play multiplayer but we don’t want to have to rely on th...
Historically, I've done most of my work on weekends or on time off. Regular business hours is when I do management, budgeting, meetings. It's in my off hours that I actually get to code and do "stuff". And I tell ya, nothing sucks the desire to work faster than a visit to the forums where hyper-entitled man-children bitch endlessly about their $10 to $50 purchase.
I read Instapundit.com religiously and it’s barely updated today (relatively speaking…).
The Beta 3 series begins the actual “game phase” of Elemental’s public beta process. This is where the game starts to come together as an actual game rather than a piece of software. Beta 3 will include the rough draft of the user manual as well as the game launcher. I still recommend people to NOT join the beta unless your primary goal is to help mold game play. At beta 3, we can make game play changes as long as they do not require new assets to be created (art, 3D models...
Here are some of the things we are aware of in beta 1Z that we will be addressing prior to beta 2. (no particular order) Traveling boots should only add +1 to movement. Journeyman’s cloak should only add +1 to movement. General costs of equipment when building your sovereign will be increased When you kill an enemy sovereign in his last city, he becomes part of your kingdom (that’s not going to stay that way though it is interesting). Trolls are probably too to...