infestation World design considerations in mobile touch games Problem overview One of the major design considerations for Infestation was how big to make the game world. Many early (and successful) games in the tower defense genre set the world size equal
design Modeling game state using a Marble Diagram There’s a little concept I’m playing around with, and I’m not sure if it’s going to work. The story behind it will take up a post of its own,
code Gotcha again! Workarounds for ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta issues The postcardsfromskyrim.net implementation of the postcardApp has been invaluable in getting down to the nuts and bolts of the new ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta and WebAPI. While in the midst of
ddd Sometimes a pretty picture is all the excuse you need to start coding I’m pleased to announce the release yesterday of my latest project – Postcardsfromskyrim.net! This website is a project that I gave myself to both to sharpen my skills through practice,
animation Silverlight spritesheet animation preview tool now available 3/5/2012: The tool is temporarily down on account of some maintenance. This post will be updated when it is again available Ever wanted to just quickly see what a spritesheet's animation
infestation Infestation is progressing nicely Yesterday I put in a solid day of work on Infestation, and I was able to get a lot done. In addition to getting the build overlay interface cleaned up quite a bit,
infestation Gone for a while, but here's a gift I'm leaving on vacation for the next two weeks or so tonight (actually, a bit earlier since this is a scheduled post), so things will be quiet here for a bit. In the
Upgrading an Azure hosted Orchard install from 1.0 to 1.1 Last night, I finished upgrading this site from Orchard 1.0 to Orchard 1.1 (yay!). As such things go, it could have gone a lot worse, but it also took a long
reactive extensions Solving problems with Compiler-as-a-Service Picture the Problem Ever been in one of those situations when a solution almost seems *too* easy? That’s how I felt recently when I integrated Roslyn’s scripting engine into at an
community Keep your //Build, I want an Idea Many people in .NET-land attended or have been reading about from afar (like me) the //BUILD conference, where I’m told that attendees got hooked up with a shiny new tablet computer
