PlayTechs: Programming for fun

This week has focused on figuring out whether having planets move around the sun can be fun. Moving planets complicate the trajectory plots ...

Following a suggestion from Kometbomb I've been experimenting with artificially attenuated gravity. Results have been encouraging. I ha...

The past couple of weeks I've been working on a prototype of multi-planet gameplay for my lunar lander game. Results are not terribly en...

In addition to working on sound over the holidays I did some unsuccessful further experiments with the game camera. I want threats to be vis...

Good news, everybody! S. John Ross' magnificent text adventure Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom is now free. Play This Thing review...

OK, I feel like an idiot. Finally ran down the problem with my decoder, and it turned out to be due to accidentally reading the file as text...

On further debugging I am forced to conclude that the Ogg container format is lame. This is not saying anything about the Vorbis compression...