Random stuff about programming experiencies.
Apparently Google is going go launch a new ad system for games that will help smaller developers in putting ads in their games. Google didn’t give an estimate of when the system will be available, but “is ready to start talking with game publishers and developers about using the system”.
Now, that is interesting 
Apparently Nintendo, in early 2008, will open a new service called WiiWare. From what I understood this new service will give a way for independent game developers to develop and distribute games for the Wii like the Xbox-360’s Live Arcade does.
According to the announcement this service “[...]provides game creators a simple method by which they can get their games to the public. This approach, combined with the remarkable motion controls of the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™, will give birth to fresh takes on established genres, as well as original ideas that currently exist only in developers’ minds.” So I guess the reverse engineered drivers will not be the only way to play with the WiiMote
The guys at Casual Gameplay are holding its 3rd flash game design competition. The rules are easy: write a flash game in flash which incorporates the “replay” theme by July 15th.
The prizes are worth the effort:
In addition, there is the possibility to receive a bid from ArcadeTown for publishing your game.
For more information see the contest’s information page at Casual Gameplay.
lionheart_LH told us at indiegamer’s forum that Bryce 5.5 is now available for free. Bryce is a very good 3D rendering software and is also available for Mac OS X users, although Intel-based Mac users need to upgrade to 6.1 (which is not free, but pretty cheap: $19.98) to get an universal binary.
You can get the free Bryce 5.5 at download.com.
VMware may have taken its time doing it but a sneak preview of Fusion oozes good design sensibility, with Windows integration that blows the pants off anything you’ve seen before. Move, resize and stack your Windows apps as if they were running directly on your Mac; it feels like you’ve liberated them from their ugly prison
Yesterday Google released a new open source API called Google Gears that makes possible for web applications to work offline by using a local database. Google Gears is installed as a browser’s plug-in that synchronizes the local database with the web application’s remote database when the plug-in detects the user is online, so when she goes offline the web application can still access to the data downloaded.
Currently the first web application that uses this new API is Google Reader, but I guess that pretty soon we’ll see more applications soon and not all of them will come from Google.