It’s amazing how time flys. Well, one indicator of time flying is that the local supermarket has stocked up with advent calendars and other assorted Christmas styled junk.
What’s the time, Mr. Wolf?
Mr. Wolf says “Its the 27th September”.
Along with the un-seasonal reminders from Mr J Sainsbury and friends, I got some Christmas spam. Great! …[more]
Media franchise games tend to be rather sad, second-rate cash-in affairs. Remembering back to the Robocop and Batman - The Movie games released by Ocean in the late 80’s, they were pedestrian, generic platformers, with a few mix and match elements thrown in, barely playable, hardly attempting to even remotely capture the characters or movies (despite the glowingly positive reviews at the time).
For every good licensed game (Star Wars Arcade) there are a dozen bad, (Robocop, Batman, Aliens, Hulk, endless Disneyfied dross). If, in general, licensed properties make for bad games, what happens if you mix two licenses, worse games? …[more]
We’re pretty comfortable building normatative websites these days. Safe standards have emerged for layout and navigation. Users don’t have to learn the interface every time they go to a new url, which is great, and the design function is largely relegated to colouring-in and decorating the same structure as everyone else.
However, meerly replicating ‘what everyone else does’ isn’t design …[more]
So, this new blogging software is up and running. Didn’t think I’d get time this week, but a few things went better than expected. Installing this blog (WordPress) being one of them.
I was reluctant to run something based on MySQL, as it has additional deployment costs and hassle assosicated with it, although, admitedly it is much less problematical than the file-system based software I was using before …[more]