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Feb292008
Halo 3 shots, courtesy of Poobs
This is neet. Apparently you can take screenshots in-game, whereupon they are uploaded to Bungie’s website. Poorbaugh has taken a few cool shots, and I am linking them here. Because I can. Not that I actually play Halo at all, but the idea is cool.
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Written by Nathan at 5:49 pm · 
Feb282008
Make a Bionic Commando level!
Some contest to make a Bionic Commando level. Seems cool. ‘Course, not really practical since you can’t play test your own creation, but I’m sure they’re just looking for cool ideas. I think I’m gonna try to make one!
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Feb282008
Adventures in PyGame
So, I was getting frustrated with attempting to program in C/C++; I just didn’t have the motivation to finish projects, and wanted to remove obstacles to completion (in this case, the complexity of mixing a graphics API with a game API in a compiled language that I don’t use much anymore). I decided to try out PyGame, and so far am fairly impressed. I’m leaving out the OpenGL side of things, and going with just straight pixel blitting, but so far doing simple stuff like loading an image (pygame.image.load()) and writing text (font.render()) is way easier than it’s SDL/OpenGL counterpart. To be fair, this may just be complexity with OpenGL, but I also like Python’s syntax more than C++. I mostly use PHP at work, so I’m way more familiar these days with interpreted languages. If you want to follow along at home, download a Python interpreter and PyGame. Heck, there’s even a PyOpenGL wrapper, so if I want I can get back into the three-dee.
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Feb282008
Get a Phantom Hourglass feather stylus!
In the never-ending quest to get more junk to put in my house, I filled out a Nintendo survey about The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass, and will now receive a limited edition DS stylus. Yes, I am a slave to marketing-type people. Hey, as long as I get free video game-related stuff, I’ll do whatever.
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Feb242008
Advice from devs
Great interview with some indie game developers on 1up.com. Jonathan Mak, in particular, has some insightful comments. Worth a read if you’ve ever thought about making a game.
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Consume!
If you're in the market for imported or pre-owned (or pre-owned imported) games, check out Play Asia. I've gotten a lot of good junk from 'em. If you buy something using the link above, I get whole pennies of referral credit!