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Focus Groups are Driving us into Oblivion

James posted on in Games, Reviews · 1 Comment »

No, not that Oblivion. I have to wonder how “marketing” efforts from 100 years ago would have stood up to today’s. People made things they thought people would like, they marketed them in ways they thought would appeal, and everyone went on their merry way. Today, we have focus groups,… Read More

Editoriffic!

James posted on in Crazy Ideas, Projects, SCX, XNA · 26 Comments »

I’ve been working on creating an editor for my free time project, Survival Crisis X, that you use just with an Xbox360 controller, and so far the results are [hate to use this word] pleasing. Here’s a nice shot: One big difference between the previous shot: it’s 720p, baby!  Survival… Read More

Isometric Test!

James posted on in Projects, SCX, SCZ, XNA · 7 Comments »

Here’s an image from some isometric tech I’ve been working on. I’ve been having a lot of fun with the XNA SpriteBatch, which is a basic object in the XNA framework that can be used for all things 2D. I’ve been abusing the heck out of alpha transparency–a computationally expensive… Read More

Some Dishwasher History

James posted on in Going Crazy, Life, The Dishwasher · 2 Comments »

I’ve been hard at work on The Dishwasher for over a year now, and I was just looking at my changelog, which I started in August, after it became apparent that The Dishwasher was not to remain some silly Prototype. To tell you the truth, after The Dishwasher was in… Read More