http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog Random stuff about programming experiencies. Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:25:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally!! After almost eleven months of developing, testing, cursing, drawing, and making musics we arrived at our first stable version of Amoebax: version 0.2.0! This version has a lot of improvements from the previous version, but that is because during this version we focused in polishing the whole game, and this ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/08/09/amoebaxs-first-final-version-released/ 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 ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/07/19/adsense-for-games/ 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 ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/29/indie-games-for-wii/ Recently I have seen some indie and free (as in free-speech) games' pages that uses the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux logos to represent the platform the game can run on. Since I'm in the process of making the new web site for Amoebax I though I could use ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/19/operating-systems-logo-guidelines/ 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: 1st place: $1,000 and 1 Flash CS3 Professional license. 2ns place: $500 and 1 Flash ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/15/flash-game-design-competition/ 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 ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/15/bryce-55-free/ If you read any game development forums you will see that there are countless people wanting to get into the development of computer games. Have you ever wandered why there is so many people wanting to start writing games? I've met people in the past that thought that making games ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/12/why-do-you-make-games/ Last Friday I bought Bullet Candy through Gibbage.co.uk. Why? Because it was one of the few Mac games available there (and because it was cheap enough for me...) While browsing the good games available at Gibbage.co.uk I though to myself: “Why there's so little indie games available for other platforms ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/11/why-not-making-multiplatform-games/ Last Friday's night I was at an Irish-style bar and having a fun time with a couple of friends of mine who also like the place. From time to time there are some local bands that play their repertoire there, but I noticed that most of the time the ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/07/are-indie-developers-doomed-to-clones-only/ 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 ... http://www.emma-soft.com/eblog/2007/06/07/vmware-fusion-shows-how-the-big-boys-do-it/