How I recovered my hard drive by double-boiling it
First I'm going to show you a picture, just to get your attention. I have a rather old computer case that I've been lugging around for years. It's a Hush Technologies Mini-ITX. I don't think they even...
View ArticleMy website is unresponsive, but system load is zero! What's going on!
This is what I woke up to four days ago. By now, anyone reading this entry – and thousands of people who aren't reading this entry – have probably seen my Double-Boiling Your Hard Drive article. I...
View ArticleThe truth behind game development
I've had a few people ask me why this journal spends so much time talking about minutae of business (like server setup and mailing lists) and so little about, you know, actually writing games. This...
View ArticleTriage and Endings
For quite some time I've been trying to figure out my plans for my current project. A bit of backstory. D-Net began about three and a half years ago. I was visiting a friend's house, playing video...
View Article0.1.0 Released
Quickly on the heels of that alpha test is 0.1.0 official release. Grab it here. What's different? Not a lot. There's an installer, and that's it. I haven't gotten any bug reports, so I'm calling this...
View ArticleSNAFU
Bit of a general fuckup here, folks – it turns out that the Mandible blog has been rejecting comments for probably a few days. If you posted a comment about Fluffytown, I'm sorry to say it got entirely...
View ArticleGDC 2010: Aftermath and New Beginnings
I spent most of last week at the Game Developers Conference. It was fantastic, because it always is – it's a solid week of jamming new game development knowledge in my head, and, y'know, there's...
View ArticleInsanely, Ridiculously Busy
I've come up with like four posts I want to make. Half of them are far too short, half of them are far too long. You're getting "too short" here. Suffice to say that things are churning along, in many...
View ArticleNieuwe Aarde 0.1.1
Windows (.zip version available) Mac OSX Linux (32-bit only) "Wait, Nieuwe Aarde? What's going on? Didn't we already see this game?" Well, yeah. You did. And you'll be seeing more of it, too! I've...
View ArticleWe Will Return After This Short Commercial Break
I totally have an idea for a post. In fact, I totally have two ideas for posts. They're good ideas. They will make good posts. Unfortunately, I just spent the first chunk of the month preparing for the...
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