Posts by AlexM

What is a flat exactly?

These days the answer is really dependent on the history of the property market moreso than before. It used to be pretty much a no-brainer to buy property but now it's shown that other types of investments can be more profitable and/or more secure.

I would never buy in Vancouver, I personally believe it's a little volatile. Of course here houses start at 1000000$ so it's not like that will be a decision for me to make anyways

So definitely do a little research, it might show that there are other investments that might be more compatible for you. I havent been to Wales in about 8 years (I have a lot of family in Wales and spread across the UK), is there a large demand for property?

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Is this a particular shop? I have only seen them at 400 so far.

All of canada

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/03/14/pla…y-50-in-canada/

They are raising the price 50$ in Canada

edit : I guess I can just go across the border and get one

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This book was generally really good but there's one point in this book that is some of the best writing I've ever read in my life. I was on a bus starting to get all teary eyed, totally came out of left field.

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That part where he discovers the landscape from his dreams on the alien planet then hears the queen think. She says something along the lines of "they haven't forgiven us we are going to die" and leaves the egg for Ender behind the mirror. Wow, I did not see that coming, the way it was written it's like you can feel the queens pain and regret.

It's a great book but that last chapter is on another level. I know it all builds up to that throughout the book and can't stand on it's own but it all culminates into this profound emotional impact.

Hey everybody just thought I'd let you know dDo is free right now. I think it's because they are announcing a new version.

their website is down right now but the direct link is still up

http://www.quixel.se/dDo/dDo_release.exe

Also here's a forum post by the team about it

http://www.quixel.se/forum/showthread.php?4418-Updates

A more fleshed out version of this would be a really fun game to play on a tactile portable (3ds/vita)

Oh man, the Eric Andre show is hilarious. That where I posted this gif from in the hahaha thread

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My guess is it's one of those shows that either people find fucking hilarious or not funny at all. I'm from the former side.

Here's some clips

ahahahahhahahah

Just bought my copy

I've heard that taking vitamin C after a workout is bad because it blocks gains from the increased insulin sensitivity. Because of this I've been trying not to eat vitamin C until 30 mins after my workouts because of this. Anyone else heard about this?

Anyways I'm now down 30lb since Jan 3rd 2014. I was initially trying to lose 60 (250 -> 190) but then realized 190 might be too skinny for me. So the new goal is 210 with little extra fat.

Nice. When I wake up it'll be out

I've been watching Battle Royal..... What the hell man?

Hey everybody I finally released my first commercial game on the playstation vita and other playstation mobile devices.

I developed it with my girlfriend who did the art and sister who did the music. I wrote the engine from scratch using openGL and the playstation mobile utility libraries (input, sound etc). The game took a little while longer to release because there was so much to learn that I just wasn't exposed to when I was on a team or working on small indie projects.

Things like software compliance, changing sdk issues, business issues, international localization, accounting in multiple countries. These are things I didn't consider when getting into this. I'm really glad I learned this because I know a lot more about the business and production side of the games business now. It's always good to be able to emphasize with your peers.

The game is an infinte runner. I wanted to do a simple concept to start since I was doing so many new things. The cat is based on my cat Noodles. The other black cat is based on my cat Bullet. We missed them when we were living in Japan so that's kind of how this game came about.

Here's a pic of it instore

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Here's a video of some gameplay

and if you want to buy it just log onto the PlayStation mobile store on your phone or vita

First up is a game I finished last night for the cyberpunk gamejam. You can find out about it here:

http://itch.io/jam/cyberpunk-jam

It's a sort of mission, living citytop game with sword combat. I spent about 4 days on it, coding in the day and doign pixel art while watching movies at night.

I learned a lot during the development and I'll be doing a post mortem but it basically boils down to I was trying to do too much for a jam. In the future I'll be focusing more on a few things than less on many things.

I wrote it in a programming language called Haxe. Haxe doesn't actually compile like a traditional language. It translates to another language. This allows the same codebase to compile for IOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Apple, Playstation Vita etc etc.. It's a very cool language based off actionscript but with all the shit that you hate about actionscript fixed. It even does enums in a way I find to be very cool (hint: there are no default cases in swtich statements because you have to explicitly cover every case).

You can play it here:

http://alexm.itch.io/arial-society

Also here's a video of the game.

and some screens:

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(early development screen)

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Taking after Taylor's idea. I've decided to make one thread for all my gamejam stuff rather than fill the work release thread up with a bunch of release threads for smaller projects.

I'm trying to do more smaller projects in game development in order to fail more and learn more about building game mechanics. Essentially what I'm doing is in the spirit of this article from Rami of Vambleer:

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RamiIsma…_At_Failure.php

So I'll be posting my gamejam games and any coding experiments that dont go anywhere.

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I looked at your site when I was doing a bit of research on this. Was very helpful!

The tags page still doesn't work for me so those links are perfect

Thank you!

Ah crap, yeah that tagging mechanism is not really built for tumblr. I've been considering re-writing the site from scratch as a custom web application but haven't had the time.

Nice subject choice, I love the look of Shenmue, the game still looks gorgeous today.

Here's some shots from when I was living there (okinawa and kyoto) mixed in with some other reblogs I thought were nice. Parts of Kyoto look like Shenmue. I'm not sure I have too many photos of those areas though.

http://leveldesigninspirationmachine.tumblr.com/tagged/Kyoto

http://leveldesigninspirationmachine.tumblr.com/tagged/Japan

So gorgeous

Nice! great that it worked out that day. I really need to remember this story for when something like that happens to me.