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Interview on ND

There’s a small interview up on the independent gaming industry blog Pariah’s Guild about the project I’m working on, Nuclear Dawn. It’s an interesting read, although my lack of English vocabulary makes me sound like a five year old from time to time.The blog itself has a bit of an …

The long dark teatime of Dist-Upgrade

Every six months, it’s that time again … upgrading to the newest Ubuntu release. I don’t know which department is in charge of the release branding, but with the label for release 8.04 (The year 2008, fourth month) they have outdone themselves: Hardy Heron. I really hope Mark Shuttleworth opens …

Level Designers wanted

Just a quick word to note that the Source Engine modification I’m working on, Nuclear Dawn, is looking for fresh level designers. If you’ve got a fair amount of experience with VHE and some kickass work to show, don’t hesitate to apply ! Development has been a bit slow at …

The city had nothing to lose

I’d like to share some of my favorite free (and legal) music I found on the web. Nathan Wiley is a pop/folk musician and singer from the great Canada, which over the past five years has released 3 albums on an indie label. His most recent album was released last …

Disarray

Cliff Bleszinski recently told MTV Multiplayer the following in an interview: I think the PC is just in disarray… what’s driving the PC right now is ‘Sims’-type games and ‘WoW‘ and a lot of stuff that’s in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That’s the …

No Blog for Old Men

Five reasons why No Country for Old Men deserved to dominate Oscar night: Bardem: Take a sniff of Lecter, tone down the voice to bass level, add the worst hairdo since Prince became a symbol and you’ve got Anton Chigurgh, which might be the most ruthless villain in film history. …

Pay attention to the man behind the curtain

After a second playthrough, I must say Call of Duty 4 is hands-down one of the finest games you could buy in 2007. It really puts the focus on certain points which have an enormous impact on a player’s perception of the game, points where other game developers usually beat …

Autoviewer XML Generator

For my webdesign activities, I sometimes use the great Autoviewer, which is a handy flash application to quickly display images in a slideshow fashion. Recently, I implemented this in a small website for a company. They were going to add photo’s every day, and don’t know how to edit XML …