Why haven't I been blogging much lately, you ask?
I guess I just don't have that hour-a-week I used to spend on it anymore. Second daughter, for one thing.

Why haven't I been blogging much lately, you ask?
I guess I just don't have that hour-a-week I used to spend on it anymore. Second daughter, for one thing.
May 07, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)
For those interested, the games in the logo image are, left to right:
- Magic Candle 2 (or maybe 3, I forget)
- Die By The Sword
- Spider-Man 2
- Schizoid
April 29, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (5)
I think it's the last day to get Schizoid half-off on Xbox Live Arcade. Go get it. If you haven't already. Because then the price goes back up...possibly forever...Microsoft doesn't let us have any control over that. (We would have lowered the price to $5 permanently by now...if they let us.)
April 06, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
If you haven't gotten Schizoid already, it's only 400 points (that's about $5) for this week only. Who knows when another opportunity like this will come along! Five dollars! That's almost the same price as 2 fish tacos at Tacos del Mar! Buy buy buy.
April 01, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Torpex is (slowly, carefully) growing!
March 19, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)
I don't like to talk trash about games on my blog because...well, it's so easy. Any game that comes out has flaws and it's a knee-jerk reaction for developers to focus on the flaws and forget all the things that make it awesome. But I'm going to do it anyway.
March 13, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (4)
I'm not the biggest fan of *Modern Warfare 2* and I've been composing a blog post in my head about my conflicted thoughts on it but this takes precedence.
March 05, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (6)
And a few others. Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4 to 7 p.m.
February 25, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Hey - if you have a Verizon smartphone, you can now play Schizoid wherever, thanks to Skyzone Entertainment. They've done a really good job of keeping the look and feel of the game on a tiny little handset...
February 01, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
This one's going to be obvious to most people, but I have read a book that says to do the opposite, so:
A lot of the scrum / agile guys advise against splitting your schedule up by resource: don't have a bunch of "QA" tasks that are estimated separately from your "Designer" tasks that are estimated separately from your "Coder" tasks, and are all tracked independently, because that creates an us-against-them mindset. "We desinger types are done with our responsibilities, it's you coder types that are holding us back." It should be one-for-all, all-for-one: if you're falling behind, your designers and QA guys and whatnot should find ways to help in whatever way they can, even if it's just getting coffee for and giving back massages to those poor coders. *Agile Estimating And Planning* is one book that recommends this practice.
December 17, 2009 in Manager In A Strange Land | Permalink | Comments (3)
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