Turbo from #gamedevelopers informed me that Gaming Girls interviewed her.
She talked about what made her get into game development in the first place, her favorite games, and how Krabbitworld came to be.
The following is printed out and up in my home office:

Calisto: Any advice you can give anyone trying to get into […]

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Last year, I had to enjoy the Game Developers Conference remotely, reading the coverage of the event by other indie bloggers.
Yesterday was the last day that I could get a discount to register for the March event. Even discounted, the prices are a bit steep, and I really would have liked to […]

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For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 262.25 (previous year) + 13.25 (current year) = 275.5 / 1000
Game Ideas: 616 (previous year) + 0 (current year) = 616 / 1000
This past week I managed to add a few more features to my Space Invaders clone. One feature is an explosion effect that occurs […]

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This month’s Project of the Month is GnuCash, the personal and small-business financial-accounting software.
I use GnuCash to keep track of my finances. Even before I started my business, GnuCash helped me to organize my income, expenses, and bills. I have stopped using my checkbook’s registry just because it is easier to use GnuCash […]

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Larry Garfield has announced the Open Source Project of the Month.
While there are some major, ubiquitous pieces of open source such as the Linux kernel, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, and Apache, there is plenty of great pieces of open source out there that doesn’t get funding from companies such as Red Hat, IBM, or hardware […]

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For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 262.25 (previous year) + 7.75 (current year) = 270 / 1000
Game Ideas: 616 (previous year) + 0 (current year) = 616 / 1000
I am coming up on 300 total hours, but I am not pleased at the rate I am getting there. My routine has been […]

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I finished writing an article about My MythTV Install Experience.
MythTV is an open source project to allow you to use your PC as a custom-made digital video recorder. It has even more functionality than anything the media companies would allow, and it is actively developed.
Unfortunately, it is also still maturing, which means […]

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Thousand Parsec announced an AI competition.
One major prize and one minor prize will be awarded in each of the two categories:
* “Battle Points” - The AI which gains the most “battle points” via beating other AI into a bloody pulp.
* “Good Code” - The […]

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Juuso at GameProducer.net has posted the first edition of the Carnival of Game Production. One of my posts is featured, and many of the other authors provided practical tips.
The featured articles:

How one man made an MMO: an interview with Gene Endrody
Interview with Georgina Bensley, Creator of Cute Knight […]

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For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 262.25 (previous year) + 4.5 (current year) = 266.75 / 1000
Game Ideas: 616 (previous year) + 0 (current year) = 616 / 1000
Another slow week of development. I spent the little time I did work on figuring out how to handle the explosion effects. I studied a […]

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