IGDA Meeting: Willy Wonka Post Mortem

By GBGames, on June 30th, 2005%

Tuesday was the IGDA Chicago chapter meeting at Dave & Buster’s. High Voltage Software‘s Matt Corso discussed what it was like to develop Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Wonka was plagued with licensor demands. Normally a licensed title might have the developer, the publisher, and a single licensor, but this game needed approval . . . → Read More: IGDA Meeting: Willy Wonka Post Mortem

To Microsoft Apologists: Yeah, Right

By GBGames, on June 29th, 2005%

There are people out there who try to justify or defend Microsoft’s actions.

Attackers are just:

jealous. whining. communists. going after an incredibly large and therefore easy target.

Microsoft is just being extremely competitive, the apologists say. Other people are just complaining about their woes rather than actually doing something better.

And then I . . . → Read More: To Microsoft Apologists: Yeah, Right

Fight Cancer; Donate for Research

By GBGames, on June 27th, 2005%

I just found out that John Hall, former Loki worker and author of Programming Linux Games is fighting against stage IV (metastatic) Melanoma and is trying to raise money for cancer research. He is writing about his ordeal at http://overcode.yak.net/3.

PLEASE DONATE TO THE FIGHT AGAINST MELANOMA

Some friends and I have formed an . . . → Read More: Fight Cancer; Donate for Research

New Letter to Governor Blagojavich

By GBGames, on June 26th, 2005%

This past week, I submitted the following message to Illinois Governor Blagojavich’s Safe Games Illinois comment form:

I note that safegamesillinois.org cites studies regarding mature game content, but it overwhelmingly suggests that children are buying M-rated games in mass quantities and that such games are a major problem. There seems to be a lack of . . . → Read More: New Letter to Governor Blagojavich

Hey, It’s What I’m Used To

By GBGames, on June 25th, 2005%

I love reading Blog of Helios. To say that this guy is passionate about getting people to use a superior operating system is an understatement. He tends to get quite emotional when he finds that people come to him for help with computer problems that could have been prevented if they would just stop using . . . → Read More: Hey, It’s What I’m Used To