We're plan to move our office soon. We're going to be moving from Bloxwich to Birmingham. Right now it's just a big empty shell. So we're getting a firm to design and turn it into a real office. I haven't been to many game studio offices. In fact, I think I've only been to one.. … Continue reading Office Design
I like Blazor, and I like Razor and ASP stuff. I've been coding stuff in it for a while but I refuse to learn about their built in authorization APIs. I come from the world of PHP where cookie/session management was always really handled manually, so I always feel more comfortable handling all this myself. … Continue reading Access control in serverside Blazor
Why did he need a share in the company to access the patent, aren't they all open and freely available?How can you be granted a patent that isn't explained in any way?Was he really controlling atoms with a Casio keyboard wtfIf the first alien has this second powerful company, with people running around doing his … Continue reading the man who fell to earth
You know, I rag on Unity a lot. They've made a lot of mistakes. Deprecating features while the replacement isn't ready. Creating multiple new implementations of features from scratch instead of improving what's there. Abandoning their own features in favour of acquiring community made versions, and then abandoning them. Splitting the whole render system into … Continue reading Unity 2022
I got a 3D printer. I never saw the point before.. because from what I've seen people mainly use them to print little figurines and whistles off.. and while that's cool.. I always think you might as well just buy them from Amazon.. it's cheaper and easier. I printed a whistle I always liked making … Continue reading 3D Printer
You might remember Foszor from the GMod community a while back. Like, 13 years back or something. His game Zinger came second in the fretta game contest we did in about 2010. I was really sad to hear that he'd passed away a couple of months ago. I was even sadder to read that he … Continue reading Rip Foszor
Quick follow up to My Tesla Broke. It's now fixed and back at home, so about a month and a half in the end. They changed the HV and the 12v battery. Spotify A funny thing is that I knew they had started fixing it. My spotify kept stopping, and when I looked into it, … Continue reading My Tesla Is Fixed
I've had my Model 3 for less than 6 months, and I've put about 500 miles on it. When I came off holiday I got in it at the airport and it had a buttload of errors.. I googled the errors and the common theme seemed to be the whole battery pack replaced.. not something … Continue reading My Tesla Broke
Having used Steam nearly every day for 19 years, both as a developer and a gamer, there are a few things that annoy me. These things have become more apparent since I've had kids and other game launchers have come out. Friend Requests I'm sure normal people don't have this problem, but people add me … Continue reading What sucks about Steam
Game Idea Every game starts with an idea. The best game idea is the one that's popular right now. Get a list of games up, order by the number of concurrent players and make a game like that first one. Yes, that game was made by 500 people, over the course of 6 years, but … Continue reading Making A Game 2022
