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It’s been almost 2 years to the day since I last posted on my blog but I’m back and with an exciting game development project I’ve been working on for the last couple of months.  The challenge Game.Dev Competition 22 “Genre Benders” was to recreate a game for another genre (find out more on the [...]

This month we’re very fortunate to have organized 3 presentations for the community as well as 2 dinners with leads from the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal chapters.
Brady Kelly, a SA Developer .NET moderator, will be replacing this month’s TechReel session with a talk on using Windows Powershell; Simon Stewart and Tristan Bergh will be [...]

Just a quick post; I picked up the pamphlet they were handing out at the New Road on ramp explaining the new ramp metering they’ve implemented to try and curb congestion on the highway. The Go-Live date is set for the 26th September 2007 and the roads affected are:

Samrand, only south bound
Rooihuiskraal, only south bound
New [...]

If it’s not to late to change your weekend plans, how about joining me at a Guitar Hero 2 competition in Boksburg, Gauteng?
I’m organising a friendly competition of Guitar Hero 2 on the Xbox 360 at this month’s Mayhem Open LAN on the 15th September 2007 at the Casa Dos Poveros Hall in Boksburg.  This [...]

The next issue of the local, online game development magazine is available for download from the Dev.Mag website.
Issue 16 really highlights the continuing effort that the contributors are putting into this community project. In particular there’s: Part 2 & 3 of A Beginner’s Guide; Part 3 of Game Coding with Trigonometry; Part 7 of the [...]

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 [...]