http://fydo.net On the Internet, nobody knows you're a cat. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:15:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Click on the image for a closer look) http://fydo.net/personal/i-am-iron-fydo Woo! In a few mere hours, the 11th Ludum Dare game development competition is starting again! This is a hectic time for gamedev compos, as the judging for Pyweek isn't even over yet and we're already starting on another one! Har. I'm looking forward to this one, hopefully I can finish up ... http://fydo.net/personal/ld11-starts-tonight Here's some art that I made for my team's pyweek 6 entry. I'll post a postmortem after the judging is over. The time, the theme was 'robot'.Click to make the pictures bigger. Om nom. http://fydo.net/personal/some-pyweek-6-art For the purposes of education and the prospect of writing a new game, I've been doing some poking around in C. I've certainly learned a few things (and expect to learn more in the future) Prior to this, I've only had experience with C++, which some would argue is a ... http://fydo.net/gamedev/dynamic-arrays About a month ago, I participated in the 10th (semi-annual?) Ludum Dare 48-hour game development competition. This time the theme was "Chain Reactions" and I created a fun little game in Python called spaceReactions. The aim of the game is to destroy planets using the pieces/fragments of other planets, which ... http://fydo.net/personal/post-mortem-ludum-dare-10 Since my last blog entry, I've released a very small update to pillows, mainly just bug fixes and making things a little nicer for linux users. My friend (and best man!) Jeff Powers recently started a new webcomic called GeoGuys. It's a funny little comic about three friends who are "nerds ... http://fydo.net/personal/friends-blogs-and-ludum-dare-x I'm pleased to announce that one of my little game projects, pillows, is now ready for general consumption. I think you'll agree that the game has a very interesting premise behind it (take a look at the storyline, har har!) I've got a win32 build and sources for non-Windows users (like ... http://fydo.net/gamedev/pillows-is-here The Pyweek team I joined this time around, Hole in the Head Studios, received a 16th place standing overall in the Teams category. See the final results here. Looking on the bright side, our teams highest score was in the production category, and we ended up with the 9th highest ... http://fydo.net/gamedev/pyweek-5-results Hooray! I'm married! Yes, it's true. On Sept. 1, 2007, I totally got married to my beautiful new wife, Kristen. Alright! Both the ceremony and reception were awesome. We've got a zillion pictures to sort through (and thank you notes to write), and I'm considering putting up a gallery of some of ... http://fydo.net/personal/hey-im-married Since I was sick with a cold this weekend, I decided to sit on my butt all weekend and start playing StarTropics. It has always been one of my favorite NES games, ever since I first played it as a child. I didn't remember actually completing it though, so I ... http://fydo.net/personal/startropics-completed