Its been aaaaages I see since my last post, let’s see if I can scare up something interesting…

Things are just getting bigger and better over at JayIsGames where they’re kicking off their next casual game design competition with the theme:
Ball Physics.

As the duration is now 2 months I just might be able to pull the time to a an entry out of thin air…

I’ve forgotten again and again to point people to yoshii.com.

(Pointing) ===> : yoshii.com

A ton of character work to peruse for inspiration!

Domestic violence in the 19th century, smack it up: BAM!

John Carmack demoing the latest tech from id at the mac developers conf

FX Composer 2 is a powerful integrated development environment for shader authoring. With support for DirectX and OpenGL, HLSL, COLLADA FX, and CgFX, as well as .fbx, .x, .3ds, .obj, and .dae formats, FX Composer provides true cross-platform functionality.

Oh yeah!

Yet another round of the casual game competition this time with the theme: REPLAY

Open to flash entries in AS2 or AS3 (rules and guidelines) and with some nice prizes to boot:

• 1st place:
  • $1,000 (courtesy of ArcadeTown)
  • (1) Flash CS3 Professional license(courtesy of Adobe)
• 2nd place:
  • $500 (courtesy of ArcadeTown)
  • (1) Flash CS3 Professional license(courtesy of Adobe)
• Audience award:
  • as before, determined by JIG community popular vote and worth at least $200 (courtesy of ArcadeTown).

If I can find some time I just might give it a bash seeing as I had to miss Game In A Day again due to work.

While skimming Japan Today I noticed that for “safety country” their front page didn’t look much different than our own local horror story headlines.

Engineer arrested over murder of female bar owner in Saitama

Police arrested a civil engineer early Friday for allegedly killing a 65-year-old woman who owned a bar in the town of Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, last month. Eiki Sato, 45, is suspected of punching and strangling Kazuko Makiuchi between the night of May 10 and the morning of May 11 and robbed …

and

Two men steal Y200 mil worth of jewelry from Ginza store

and so on and so forth

So really it ain’t so bad here kiddo… or as I like to say:

It’s a wonderful place if you can stay alive long enough to enjoy it ;D

Are you on facebook?

i’m gonna smack em in the face with a book…

So I finally got around to connecting my XB360 to my network (thanks MS for the extra long network cable;) and I have to say (contrary to what I have read online of others experiences) getting it connected, signing up for XBLive and getting a Creators Club took about 10 minutes. Quick and smooth like butter mice. I am impressed.

So now I’m thinking that maybe I should squeeze the 5.2 seconds of free time I have and code up an entry for the Dream-Build-Play competition. 10K USD, a kick ass PC setup by Alienware, 3DS Max 9/XSI or Maya, and a ton of other stuff I could provide a very loving home for but just uploading some prototype stuff onto the ole XB360 last night and giving it whirl alone gave me the whoo-hoos, so theres fun to be had just creating some cool stuff.