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Oct 13 2009

5 Technological gurus I admire

It is common to have models in life, to dream to be like them someday. Some people chose actors, others singers or rock stars… I’m selecting 5 technology-related individuals that I think are real gurus, people I really admire for their intelligence and...
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Jul 12 2009

How we Europeans get cheated with videogame prices

This is going to be a small rant post not related to development, but I just couldn’t resist to talk about this semi-fraud. Everybody who plays videogames (either on PC or on console) knows that in Europe prices are “a bit higher” and games usually come...
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May 26 2009

Tip: Increase user process address space to 3GB (and other misc. tweaks)

If your gaming PC uses Windows XP (or Windows 2003) and you mainly use it for gaming (I have a “dedicated gaming PC” only for that and watching movies/listening to music), you can change one option in the boot.ini file to achieve two goals: Force detection...
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Apr 26 2009

Good AI, but always Fun AI

Taking a look at a Civilitation IV presentation about AI , Soren Johnson (AI designer for last Civ games) talks about the "Good AI vs Fun AI" concept, which is sometimes forgotten by game designers. A good AI is one that plays well, maybe too...
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Jan 16 2009

Advantages of not building from scratch

I'm using use a videogame as an example for this post, but there are a lot of other examples available. Fallout 3 is a recent videogame released by Bethesda, a mature RPG maker company. Fallout 3 is an RPG settled in a post-apocalyptic future, based...
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Jan 13 2009

5 unusual games to make you think

Lately I’ve been plauing a bunch of games. Most of them are the typical “best of the moment” ones: GTA IV, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War 2… But also, both from friend advices and from trying the demos, I’m playing a few quite interesting and unusual...
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Dec 23 2008

GTA IV PC: Screwing up the big way

GTA IV was recently launched for PC (finally, 8 months later than the console versions). Loving playing on my PC, and having a 30" more-than-full-hd monitor means I try to buy PC games instead of 360 ones whenever possible (native 2560x1600 plus...
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Nov 29 2008

Don't copy, don't rent, don't exchange... [UPDATED]

...just buy original and new games This seems to be the message we're being told lately by the videogame industry. In the past, piracy was a huge problem * . Now, with the latest generation of consoles, piracy has dropped down a lot (DVDs and harddisks...
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Oct 30 2008

Why innovate if you can imitate? [UPDATED]

Innovation is hard in the present time. Those who innovate usually get rich and famous. In the videogame world, innovation means (usually, not always) setting new standards. Dune 2 set the basics of strategy games, and even now all games are based on...
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Oct 12 2008

Getting started with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ

I wanted to wait until I had a more finished version of the website, but I must express my satisfaction of how good ASP.NET MVC and LINQ are to speed up web development. I'm building a website for my new project, The Dark Portal . The Dark Portal...
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