Bloggpengar.com and Gamezine.se

One and a half year – damn, has it really been that long?

Although no longer an aspiring indie game developer, I still spend a lot of time with games. Most promptly, I am writing for the Swedish gaming magazine Gamezine.se. I also have a couple of personal experiments in micro websites (Bloggpengar.com, MinBMI.com), just to keep myself occupied.

I have decided to leave GameFocus as it is, if only to preserve the (admittedly few) developer interviews I have conducted. Hopefully it will be of interest to someone.

So, what’s been happening?

Well, a lot of things have been going on in my life the last couple of months. Those things kept me from updating the first couple of months, and later helpt me to learn what I really want to do with my time. Sadly, this blog is not one of them.

Writing this blog have been great fun for me. I have talked to great people that I admire, and to say that it has been great is by any measures met, a big understatement. Now, I have begun gymnasium (I won’t use the pure english translation, since I probably would’ve got it wrong), tested new things, and realised that games is not really want I won’t to do, and that programming isn’t really the thing for me. This takes a lot to write down, mind you, since I have been working with it for years now. Still, I feel like it is time well spent, I have met great people and learned a lot, not only about games and programming but also about life, and everything that comes with it.

Right now, I am mainly writing. I have a swedish website where I publish short stories, and I’m working on a larger fantasy novel as a long-term project. I am hoping that it can take me somewhere, but even if it doesn’t, it’s still great fun. Which is, if I remember correctly, the very reason to why I started creating games a couple of years ago.

Well, thank you all for this great time, and good luck. I won’t remove the website, since I feel that the developer interviews I have done can still be of use for future visitors. Now, go make some great games

RealArcade/Platypus 2 Rant

Some time back, i wrote about Anthony Flack and his games with clay graphics. One of them being Platypus, a awesome shooter with awesome graphics and a whole lot other awesomeness in it. Something i didn’t mention tho’, is the the fact that Anthony sold the rights for the game to Idigicon, a rather big player in games at that time – seven years ago. Yes, the game is really that old… not bad at all considering when it was made and that a single person developed it.

Well, as it turns out… RealArcade has released a sequel without any credit given to Anthony about it – they didn’t even let him know about it. They do own the rights to the game, but doing such a pure income-oriented business move is just wrong. I stronly believe that companies thinking with their hearts will survive the companies thinking with their accounts, and RealArcade is blacklisted in my book now.

Money isn’t everything, RealArcade.

I am Dr. Doom!

Coolio…

You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom 80% Lex Luthor 79% Apocalypse 76% Green Goblin 75% Magneto 74% Mr. Freeze 72% Venom 66% Kingpin 61% Catwoman 58% The Joker 55% Juggernaut 51% Mystique 47% Two-Face 47% Dark Phoenix 44% Riddler 43% Poison Ivy 39%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

Microsoft 386 promovid

A guy over at the Indiegamer forumd posted about this one. It’s kind of long (11 minutes) but believe me, it’s a well spent ten minutes. Microsoft sent them to retailers in order to describe the awesome features of the new Windows 386 – they should’ve done the same thing with the Vista imo

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239&sourceid=zeitgeist

Funny as hell if you ask me

Mac mini, you got nothing on this one.

In terms of size anyway – it probably won’t get much smaller than this. Jade Integration, based in Israel is the company behind this product, the “JackPC”. They are saying that their new client will change everything… Sure, like we’ve never heard that before. Gotta admit though, it would rather cool to have this next to my bed… very cool It isn’t a full computer though, it is supposed to be connected to a server, and the specs are hardly something to go excited over.

Power over Ethernet support, running Windows CE, 333 or 500MHz CPU, 64 or 128MB of RAM, DVI out, 4 USB 2.0 ports…

…Doom2, anyone?

YouTube – Dad at Comedy Barn

YouTube – Dad at Comedy Barn

This video rocks. Believe me, it was the most ten minutes i’ve had this year – check it out goddamnit

Saint George

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2007/01/saint_george.html

I am damn fed up with George W. Bush. To bad i ain’t a US citizen – i would love to vote him out of the White house. The …art is to be seen at the Mountain Gate Family Restaurant. I don’t know about you, but i wouldn’t be able to eat while looking at that.

This is the best thing since sliced bread

Always wanted to say that.

Seriously, this site is great. I add a couple of stations by writing a band/artist or a song. Pandora starts by playing a song by the band/artist, then it automagically find songas and artist with the same kind of music. Always use when at school, and it totally rocks. Check it out!

Zelda cartoon on YouTube

Played through the Zelda: Twilight Princess (Still on my to do-list) and longing for even more of Hyrule? TV Links compiled a handy link listing pointing to 13 episodes of the series that actually was on TV in 1989 and 1990.I feel obliged to warn you though – this isn’t the traditional take on our humble and heroic favourite character in green tights. Watching link fighting off a goblin in his pyjamas might just be worth it though

1. The Ringer part 1, part 2
2. Cold Spells part 1, part 2
3. The White Knight part 1, part 2
4. Kiss n Tell part 1, part 2
5. Sing for the Unicorn part 1, part 2
6. That Sinking Feeling part 1, part 2
7. Doppelganger part 1, part 2
8. Underworld Connections part 1, part 2
9. Stinging the Stinger part 1, part 2
10. A Hitch in the Works part 1, part 2
11. Fairies in the Spring part 1, part 2
12. The Missing Link part 1, part 2
13. Moblins are Revolting part 1, part 2