Testing WordPress for Android
Is it alive? Does it work? Looks like it does. Thanks to the WordPress for Android app (one of the more slicker apps I’ve seen on the App Market) I can now blog on the go from my HTC Wildfire. Wohoo.
Is it alive? Does it work? Looks like it does. Thanks to the WordPress for Android app (one of the more slicker apps I’ve seen on the App Market) I can now blog on the go from my HTC Wildfire. Wohoo.
Just a quick thank-you to the guys at Zombie Cow Studios. In exchange for some bug reports on their newest game Privates, I received an e-mail yesterday with free download links to their back catalogue, including the well-written point-n-clicky adventure games Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please. Thank …
Can recommend this game. It’s a fairly linear shooter set in post-nuclear Moscow. It’s developed by 4A Games, an eastern-europe studio which had some developers from the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl games, which really shows. Play it with the original Russian voice acting, because the English voice-overs are atrocious. …
Today I found a way to render the shadow volumes used in the stencil buffer technique I posted about yesterday in Ogre3D. Sometimes all you need is a ninja and three penguins to get a good insight. These are the shadow maps for one single point light source. Notice how …
I’ve spent the day reading up on shadowing techniques for real-time rendering which can be used in the Ogre3D project I’m working on. I was not familiar with the details of the shadow volume method using stencil maps. It’s actually pretty clever, and it’s interesting to read how John Carmack …
I’m working my way through Ogre3D at the moment, to freshen up my C++/Visual Studio skills. I got my student copy from DreamSpark : seems that I’m still registered as a student, and thus qualified for free software – Yoink!. Browsing through the samples, I thought this was a nice touch: …
An old 2D design I never got around finishing. Contest theme was ‘complexity‘, worked it out using GIMP and Inkscape.
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… to seriously annoy a supermarket. (via Stephen Fry on Twitter)
Yes, I know, more comics … Thesis was finished this morning, so more interesting stuff to come! For now, enjoy this great comic which came with the Team Fortress 2 mac update. I think it’s great how people using (traditionally) different systems can play on the same servers now. Also, …