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Game Diary / July 11, 2013 / John / 0
It appears dem monsters need hunting once again. I was a bit suspicious of how this would play, particularly with regards the camera, but as it happens it controls beautifully and doesn’t require The Claw Of Death like the PSP version did. So, it’s Monster Hunter – you know how it works. There’s Monsters. And
Brewing / February 8, 2013 / John / 0
This is a message from the future! For once, it came out magnificently on the first attempt so I’ve stuck with this recipe ever since. So I’ve devised a recipe for what I’m hoping will be a nice Christmas Pudding Ale. The Youngs one, if I remember correctly, is just a winter warmer mixed with
Ramblings / October 18, 2012 / John / 0
Tags are annoying little things. The trouble is, I always forget to add them when I write a post. As a result, I have a couple of hundred posts that I need to trawl through and retrospectively add tags to. It’s not an interesting thing to do 🙂 You’ll also, no doubt, have noticed many
Ramblings, The Tube / June 12, 2012 / John / 0
Nelefa.org is officially an adult! The domain was originally registered on this day in 1997 – 16 years ago. How time flies when you’re talking utter pish. So – as a mini-celebration, I’m going to list my favourite film of each year nelefa.org has been alive. 1997 – Contact 1998 – Saving Private Ryan 1999
Ramblings / May 29, 2012 / John / 0
No, really, I am. Thing is, I moved house (again!) recently. Probably a kind of backwards move, as far as most people would think, because I’ve gone from a lovely old sprawling farmhouse on top of a hill to a tiny little end-terrace in the middle of Livingston. Fact is, I love the tiny little
Game Diary / April 29, 2012 / John / 0
Okay, so there seems to be some confusion about the title of this game. Sometimes GOD eater, sometimes GODS. Who knows what it actually is. In game, the team you work with are known as GOD eaters so we’ll go with that one. Regardless, the premise is simple. You kill ridiculously large monsters with ridiculously
Ramblings / April 26, 2012 / John / 0
Something has been afoot with nelefa.org recently. I think something nasty got into one of the wordpress scripts. I *think* it’s now fixed, but if anyone notices anything odd, please tweet me on @johnmdow. [EDIT] I found it. Peoples – make sure your .htaccess isn’t writeable by the web server user.
Game Diary / February 28, 2012 / John / 0
This shouldn’t be possible. How can I be addicted to a Harvest Moon game again? They’re all the same (more or less) and yet I’ve been addicted to every single one of them. Rune Factory, though, is a wee bit different. Kinda. Sorta. You’re still put in charge of a farm. You still grow crops,
Ramblings / January 20, 2012 / John / 0
And can I just say – thank feck. It’s been a long week, but at least (after an hour or two more) the weekend will be spread wantonly before me. And so many things to do! Now that Harmony is here, we can get on with some Babylon 5 – we have about half of
Games Development, Modular Bob / January 18, 2012 / John / 0
So, I’m writing a game for the first time in about a decade and a half. After scurrying around and looking at development platforms, I’ve settled on C++/SDL. Long-timers will remember that all my previous game development was done in C/Allegro, so there’s a wee bit of a learning curve for me. The ultimate goal