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Archive for August, 2005

Women Gaming Restaurants?

Posted by GBGames on August 12th, 2005

This topic is kind of related to my post on making girl friendly games. Apparently, Nolan Bushnell announced plans to found a new chain of restaurants designed to lure women into gaming. Bushnell is pretty much famous for Pong, usually incorrectly credited as the father of video games. He also created Chuck E. […]

IE Only Website: U.S. Copyright Office?

Posted by GBGames on August 11th, 2005

From Copyright Office: Is only MS IE acceptable to you?:
In a followup to its July 22, 2005, Notice of Proprosed Rulemaking, the Copyright Office is now seeking “information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer […]

Guess the Google!

Posted by GBGames on August 11th, 2005

A friend sent me this link last week: Guess the Google!
It is a fun game in which you only have a few seconds to try to guess the Google search term that resulted in the 20 images displayed. Requires Flash 7 to play.

Time Flies

Posted by GBGames on August 11th, 2005

Whoops! I didn’t meant to stay up past midnight programming!
I think it is a good thing that I was getting so into it that I didn’t notice when an hour or two went by. At least, that’s what makes me feel better about how behind my project is. In this time, I […]

Oracle’s Eye Development: First Week

Posted by GBGames on August 10th, 2005

Steve Chandler’s 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself mentions definitely planned work as being both motivating and productive. The idea, which has been repeated by many people, is that one hour of planning saves three hours of work. Also, once you have a definite plan, you can’t help but get motivated to actually start […]

We Don’t Trust You

Posted by GBGames on August 9th, 2005

Jerry’s Brain And The Heresies It Contains at The Social Customer Manifesto asks why some great thinkers of the past few centuries are getting ostracized. In the end, it boils it down to the idea that those in charge (business, government, society, etc) do not trust you.
There are myriad examples where “We Don’t […]

Girl Friendly Games?

Posted by GBGames on August 8th, 2005

People keep talking about making games more girl friendly. When women make up over 50% of the world but only a small percentage of your customers, more women gamers means more sales. Naturally, there is an emphasis on attracting women to video games. But then people guess at what to do. […]

Secret to Getting Results

Posted by GBGames on August 7th, 2005

Sometimes I think about pruning out the blogs that aren’t directly related to game development, software, or business. Then a great post like 5 Secrets to Getting Results comes along from a music business marketing blog in my RSS feeds.
Each item is not so much about doing a specific action or using […]

Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games

Posted by GBGames on August 6th, 2005

Maybe I am late to the party, but I just now read the article that talks about the decline of violence in recent years: The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games
First off, I have absolute proof that video games are not the cause of this epidemic of youth violence in America. No, really, I […]

Graphical Tip for X

Posted by GBGames on August 5th, 2005

While I think KDE and Gnome are great, I’ve grown accustomed to Fluxbox. It’s a lightweight window manager and does all I need it to do. One day I plan to use FVWM because it is so configurable, but Fluxbox is great for now.
I also use Debian. Debian has added a common […]