‘Development’ Archives
ActionScript 3 Class Definition and Importing Sickness
Sorry, but this post is about some programming garbage. Okay, so i decided to write a little ActionScript 3 code since it's all object-oriented and somehow "real" compared to the previous joke versions. I was trying to create a small class that did some simple stuff and get it working in the Flash environment. After reading several examples [...]
Back in the USA
Raluca finally made it back to the USA from her long 5 month stay in Romania, thank you Homeland Security. Government immigration paperwork is such a nightmare. Anyway, she's back and settling in again after almost half a year away. We decided to start leveling some Draenai toons on Dragonmaw (WoW, of course!) and we're in the mid-teens [...]
OGDC Interview
I was up in Seattle last week for the OGDC conference where I was on a panel discussing development of MMOs and the panel was fielding all kinds of questions. After the panel I was interviewed by Evan, whom I've known for years. Right now, in the news section on Gamasutra is a blurb about the interview (with link). And it's so great to see my [...]
Slipgate Web Team
Yay! We've finally started building our web team and our VP of Web Tech spent a few seconds and reworked my original site design into something cooler. You can check it out here. As you can see, we're doing a lot of interviewing. This week's interview schedule has been MySQL DB Admin, Technical Director and VP of Marketing candidates. We're [...]
Happy Birthday, Heretic and HDB!
It's birthday time again and this fine December 23rd celebrates the birth of both Heretic (1994) and Hyperspace Delivery Boy! (2001). Both of these guys were released to the world at the very edges of the day: Heretic was uploaded at 11:30pm and HDB was uploaded at 2:30am. When Heretic was released it wasn't to any web sites - they barely [...]
Apple-NeXT Merger Birthday!
It's been 10 years since Apple merged with NeXT and then later brought us the awesome OS X. I still remember seeing OS X in action for the first time and how the Finder displayed directories in NeXTSTEP format and the rotating CD for the new Wait cursor.....YES! I was totally convinced at that point that some version of Mach was at the core of OS [...]
Quake Map Sources Released!
Since it's Quake 1's tenth anniversary this year (starting June 22nd) I thought I'd dig up and release all of Quake's original map sources. For all these years the only possible way to glean any information from Quake's internal format was from BSP deconstruction programs - but those had problems with tons of brushes generated from insane BSP [...]
