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Sheepie

Dec 25, 2009

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Sheepie.

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Introducing My Latest Projects

Sep 22, 2009

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… Or, How to Procrastinate Productively. klystrack3

I decided to make one of my current projects open source and post them on Google Code just for fun. The project is a toolchain that I’m using to remake Thrust. In reality, I decided to divide the project into two separate projects: the actual game engine and related tools, and a music editor that uses the engine.

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Wordle and Classics

Jul 19, 2009

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More Wordle madness.

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Wordle and 30 Years of Games

Jul 01, 2009

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small Here’s a superficial analysis on game titles. I have used Wordle to generate a word cloud from lists of recurring phrases in game titles.

What the word clouds show are very generic words like “space” or “super”, the number two (a game series is more likely to be two than three games long) and multiple word phrases which usually are popular game series, or games with many expansion packs. It is interesting that the generic words tend to be the same across 30 years — all generations of gamers seem to prefer dragons. Another point of interest is that a phrase from a 1980s game title is much less likely an established brand as it most likely is in the 1990s. Also, in the 1990s is became common that a game title has the release year attached to it, since EA et al started to churn out minor updates to their sports games as brand new releases.

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Migrating From 32-bit XP To 64-bit Windows 7

May 07, 2009

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Here’s some quick pointers and answers to questions I, the stubborn XP user, had that made me hesitate trying out the new Windows 7 RC. I didn’t immediately find such info on the webs and as a chronic luddite I didn’t even think about finding out until absolutely necessary.

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