By strange coincidence, I recently found out that our new upstairs neighbor, Whitney Hills, also happens to be a game designer with a bunch of games under her belt. Aside from her coveted daytime gig at Double Fine, she’s also worked on a few of her own titles including a highly addictive multiplayer game called [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
The Nerd Leprechaun
I stumbled on this forum post on YoYoExpert yesterday: There was a guy at our church who I thought was doctor popular about 5 years ago, and I really thought it was him but was to scared to go ask him, so I told my friends little brother to go ask the guy if he [...]
Game Challenge Day 10
We are ten days into developing KnifeTank, with less than a week left to finish. The game is running pretty smoothly on Safari, but we are hoping to Chrome and Firefox working too by the end of the week. Oddly enough, the game runs pretty poorly on an iPad, which is a shame considering it [...]
Reader Manifesto
I first started using RSS aggregators 3 years ago when I noticed a depressing trend of big sites (like Facebook) trying to force you to use the web through their portal. The idea of being able to take any feed I wanted and choose how I wanted to aggregate it was what I really preferred. [...]
Velosynth, an open source synthesizer for your bikehole
There’s a cool new project in the works called Velosynth, which uses magnets, accelerometers, and an Arduino micro-controller to turn your bike into a musical instrument. The project was recently posted onto Kickstarter and has already tripled their fund-raising goal in just a few days. Unfortunately they are all sold out of kits, but you [...]
