Archive for the ‘games’ Category

Zork I remake using NWN2

Monday, October 8th, 2007

West of house
This should be interesting.

Geeks <3 Nintendo

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Joey deVilla: “at the June 2006 RailsConf, which had a number of the thought leaders in new-school web development in attendance, the DS was the second-most popular machine there, just behind Mac notebooks and ahead of Wintel laptops”

Retro Gaming Hacks on the Streets of Providence

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Box o' Hacks

I’m going to be running the Providence Geeks table at AS220’s Foo Fest (not to be confused with FOO), an all-day free block party in downtown Providence tomorrow (Saturday, July 15th 2006). It starts at 12am and goes late, so you have all day to check it out. I’ll probably have the table up until 5pm or so, and I’ll be giving away copies of Retro Gaming Hacks to people who can make high scores in whatever retro games I happen to have set up!

Natural Language Game Programming with Inform 7

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Liza Daly: “If you are a COBOL fan, you will love this language, and if you are not, the main thing you should know is that Inform 7 does not suck. It can do real work in a novel way.”

My Video Debut

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

I did a video on the Vectrex and one on the Hasbro Zoombox for Make this week. 

Visit the Hacks Booth at the Maker Faire

Monday, April 17th, 2006

If you’re going out to the Maker Faire, be sure to drop by the Hacks booth and say howdy. I’ll be bringing some goodies related to a few of our hacks books, and there will be plenty of toys you can mess around with.

PSP Hacks on its Way

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

PSP Hacks CoverAs C.K. found out, PSP Hacks is in print, and it won’t be long before it’s in a bookstore near you. Check out the, uh, Sample hacks to read all about the cool ways you can mess with your PSP. This is the third gaming book I’ve had the pleasure to edit recently: Halo 2 Hacks and Retro Gaming Hacks are also a lot of fun.

Retro Gaming Hacks

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

I love the animated tile that the O’Reilly Network folks chose for Josh’s Pong/SDL hack.

Xbox 360 Blues (the double double blues)

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

Casey Chesnut: “they just point to a torn sign that says
they are out of stock”

Halo 2 Modding Considered Harmful?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Stephen Cawood, author of Halo 2 Hacks (which I had the honor and pleasure of editing): “modding is not the same as cheating.”