Last night, Export Development Canada and Sony held a thing at a trendy joint in downtown Toronto. The night was a who’s who of the Toronto game development scene, as in “who’s that guy?” and “who’s that other guy standing next to that guy i don’t know?” The fellas from Chocolate Liberation Front chat [...] Keep Reading

Last year, i suggested that in the future, we’ll have to grant generational amnesty to young people as sort of a clean slate for online indiscretions. i based this on the hair-curling amount of nonsense posted online by the youth group members i worked with at my church: Forgive Us Our Facebook Over the weekend, the [...] Keep Reading

Introduction For Spellirium we had to develop a system that could determine the most efficient path between a series of nodes on a point. After some diligent research and careful consideration it became clear that the A* search algorithm was the way to go. Now, I was familiar with the basics behind A* but had [...] Keep Reading

i took a breezy trip through X’10 after work today. That’s the Microsoft holiday preview press event, where you get to put your sticky mitts on all the stuff you heard about at E3 a few months earlier. Here, for the joy of cooking, are my thoughts. i’m old. i’ve been going to these events [...] Keep Reading

The new paradigm shift in game design is faulty, flawed and fallible “organic” or soul-driven design vs. metric’s-driven solid fact-based sciency design. It’s the difference between “i feel that we’re at the center of the universe” vs. “hey – we just discovered heliocentricity!” Zynga is the new Galileo, reviled by critics (like me) [...] Keep Reading