PlayTechs: Programming for fun

This week I got a little bit done on the plane flights to and from the Game Developer Conference. I added an alternate control scheme for n...

My father recently discovered a photo of me taken in 1985. I was programming in BASICA (the BASIC that came with DOS) then. The computer ap...

Diapers If you find yourself among strange men the surest way to get a conversation going is to talk about shaving. Men love to talk about ...

I tried out stacking speech messages on the top of the screen and keeping them there until sufficient real time elapsed. The problem with t...

Slow down! You're talking too fast The big problem with speech bubbles is that they flash by too quickly to read if the player is holdin...

I'm experimenting with dumping animated GIFs of the game: Click on the picture to see the movie. The frames are being played back at a ...

I got the stupid locks hooked up, by getting up at 3am this morning. I'm working on a cross between Thief and Rogue . It seemed like i...