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Why I Can’t Use Flash for Game Development

Posted by GBGames on April 8th, 2008

People everywhere love Flash. It has become the Web’s de facto standard for all manner of interfaces. From simple menus to full-blown games, you can bet that Flash is there. It has been called one of the best prototyping tools available, and game designers love it because they don’t need to be computer science graduates […]

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Griefers and Online Games

Posted by GBGames on April 8th, 2008

Thanks to David Edery, I learned about an article on Gamasutra about fixing online gaming idiocy.
Bill Fulton wrote about the problems with griefers as well as people who are just plain rude.
Why do I care? Some gamers might be thinking “If he’s so thin-skinned that he can’t take the online banter, maybe he […]

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