The Mailowl Scrolls

I’m taking the opportunity, now that my work schedule is returning to normal, to get back into my favourite hobby; game development.  I have 2 games I’m working on: Adventure Quest 2 – The Return of Lord Deathskull, a Diablo-style action adventure and an RTS simply titled Medieval RTS.
Over this past week I’ve been working [...]

The winners of the Game.Dev Competition 15, sponsored by Mindset Learn, have been announced on the community forum; and below you can find a link to all of the games entered as well as the final comments on the winning games by the community leader Danny “dislekcia” Day who did the judging.  The objective was [...]

It’s time again to talk about what is probably the largest game developer gathering event in South Africa.  Professionals, indie developers and hobbyists will be getting together at the Game.Dev stand at rAge 2007 in Johannesburg and will be running talks and workshops throughout the 3 day event.
Free DVDs with game development content and resources [...]

If you need another reason to start liking LINQ it’s because it allows you to build relationships between your object collections.  I’m not talking about LINQ to SQL or LINQ to XML where the data source already has an underlying architecture for relationships; I’m talking about in-memory object collections (For example, in our offices we [...]

Being pulled over by the police is generally never fun or done at an appropriate moment although experience has taught me to be jovial and attentive because a cop in a bad mood is far worse to have to deal with than a cop who’s just doing his job.  Anyways, I was pulled over yesterday [...]

If you’re in the Gauteng region and have been hearing about this framework called Ruby on Rails (maybe from Scott Hanselman’s podcast) but are not quite sure what it is; then come to the SA Developer .NET meeting on the 18th August at Torque IT in Rivonia where Armand Du Plessis will be taking us [...]

At the last 27Dinner in Johannesburg I got into an interesting discussion about the difference between Nerds and Geeks. Previously I had always thought the name was interchangeable but according to Kerryn Whitehead, a geologist, “The difference between nerds and geeks is technology”.
Geeks, apparently, shun daylight to spend all their time with their PCs [...]

It seems my previous post, talking about my experiences using ClustrMaps didn’t go unnoticed by the ClustrMaps Team who were kind enough to leave a comment on my blog and to upgrade my subscription to ClustrMaps+. I also got listed on their User of the Month for August 2007 which is awesome.
ClustrMaps+ mainly provides [...]