PlayTechs: Programming for fun

Sure-fire topics for easily striking up conversations with strangers: With guys: Shaving With new parents: Poop With Pacific Northwesterners...

Took a week of vacation at home; sigh , yes, a “staycation.” Amongst other things I managed to play a few computer games: Minecraft I've...

This weekend was busy with hiking on Cougar Mountain, attending the Puyallup State Fair (quite an Internet-savvy fair; see the URL), and ha...

Work on my lunar-lander-on-a-disc game has been slow but steady. None of the pieces I've been working on are anywhere close to done. Her...

A friend and I made a CGI script ages ago (1996, probably) to generate random names for fantasy role-playing games. We used the basic templa...

My quest to avoid making an art pipeline continues. I couldn't sleep last night so I replaced the landing targets with little guys that ...

I like young adult novels because they tend to be short. There's been a discussion recently amongst independent game developers about ho...