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Games Development, Ramblings / March 5, 2006 / John / 1
Gah! I’ve just had a hankering to play Yak Attack and discovered that it runs *horribly* in Windows XP 🙁 This is a Bad Thing(tm). Sadly, the source to the game was lost when we had a housefire and the only way to get it working properly would be to write it again from scratch.
Game Diary / March 4, 2006 / John / 0
Been playing quite a few things of late. World of Warcraft has sucked me back in again, and I now have a cute little gnomish rogue who is, frankly, lethal. I’ve just reached Ironforge for the first time and, after the newbie lands, it’s a bit of a culture shock. I feel like a country
Australia / March 4, 2006 / John / 0
Well, we’ve had a major spot of good fortune with this one. The person buying our house hasn’t yet managed to sell his own but is going to continue with the purchase at the beginning of April regardless. What this means is that we’ll rent our house from the new buyer until we’re ready to
Game Diary / February 26, 2006 / John / 0
Bah. I made the mistake of paying attention to something someone at work was talking about. He mentioned Eve Online and I though ‘oh, an MMO that seems to have slipped below my radar’. So, I had a look. It has a fourteen day free trial. ‘Oh well,’ I thought again, ‘nothing ventured nothing gained.’
Game Diary / February 23, 2006 / John / 2
Dear Activision, Recently, my ten year old son purchased Lionhead Studios’ ‘The Movies’. On attempting to install it, however, he discovered that the DVD drive in the computer he proudly assembled himself would not read the DVD. It reads all other DVDs just fine. He asked if I could try the disk in my computer
The Tube / February 22, 2006 / John / 1
Why is it that the trinity of Danny Elfman, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp can do no wrong? Yet again, this is another triumph of cinema backed with a particularly beautiful soundtrack. The only downside is that Christopher Lee doesn’t get to sing, but we can’t have everything 🙂
Australia / February 19, 2006 / John / 0
Ok, so the visa lodgement stuff is hard, complicated, and – well – tiresome. But there’s other practical stuff that needs to be done too. We’ve had quite a bit of change recently – I changed jobs at the beginning of this month and, because of the location of the office, I’ve been getting the
Game Diary / February 19, 2006 / John / 0
Seven hours and fifteen minutes in and I managed to rescue all the Yoshis. Hooray! It involved getting eaten by the big pink thing – which was deliberate, obviously. Ahem. Anyway, I ended up wandering about in its innards on a Yoshi hunt, before defeat0ring a big nasty boss beastie and then being part of
Game Diary / February 17, 2006 / John / 0
Making some progress. I’m currently dotting around on Yoshi’s Island, following a traumatic experience where a big pink dinosaur had eaten all the Yoshis! Made a bit of a nob of myself but letting loose a cry of ‘no! Don’t eat the Yoshis, ye big stupid pink thing!’. On the bus. Got some strange looks.
Australia / February 16, 2006 / John / 0
Well, had a brief moment of AAAAAAAARGHness yesterday. A bloke on a forum said that his migration agent had said that the class 136 visa had been deprioritised and the processing was running eight months behind. We’re on a category 138 visa which is quite similar but fortunately, our agent has reassured us it’s not