I’ve launched a new site, AfterActionReporter.com. It’s a site for gamers where I report on games AARs published all over the place, as well as write some original ones. Right now I’ve got several parts of a Dwarf Fortress play-along tutorial up, as well as some other bits and pieces. I hope you’ll check it out!
New Site! AfterActionReporter.com
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Is searching fixed in Second Life?
25 11 2008After ranting to a colleague in Second Life about how poorly Linden Labs have handled the ‘search’ experience, said colleague pointed me to the new search box in the top right of the client. Ok, perhaps it’s not so new, but it’s the first time I’ve used it and the associated “all” search. Initial impressions are that it’s a vast improvement on what went before! But are people using it? I really hope so, as it’s much better than the old SL search tools and it has some interesting implications for how people promote their sims and their Second Life businesses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: search, Second Life
Categories : Second Life
Sex continues to dominate in Second Life
4 11 2008
Ages ago I blogged about how sex dominates in-world search listings in Second Life. Since I hadn’t been on for a while I thought I would have a look and see if anything has changed. Well, the long and the short of my quick investigation is that it hasn’t. Linden Labs haven’t bothered to chuck a bucket of cold water on the metaverse and Google’s 3.4m hits agree, sex continues to “dominate” Second Life. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Games, search, Second Life, sex
Categories : Games, Second Life
What iPhone apps developers should know (but don’t)!
3 11 2008As I browsed the Apple apps store today, looking for new iPhone toys, I stumbled across a great looking flight combat game by a studio who shall remain nameless.
The title was catchy, and although the description was too long, a skim of it seemed promising. But do you know what there wasn’t?
A picture of the game. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Games, Tech
Armed Assault – Zombie mod!
29 09 2008Check out this thread on Quarter to three about Armed Assault and the Zombie mod! Here’s an excerpt to wet your lips.. eyes? Whatever.
We rolled in and started laying waste to the zombies but of course, we started to run out of ammo. I told everyone to get into the APC we had brought along and was firing hundreds of .50 cal rounds into the crowds of undead. Then things started deteriorating. They surrounded the APC when, after we had knocked over some walls and trees trying to get out of there, we smashed into a house and had trouble backing out. They started clibing up over the sides and dragged the gunner out of his mount.
It goes on…
Suddenly I was attack from behind and fell to the ground.
As the “Mission Failed” screen came up, the camera zoomed to an above view where I got to see my attacker eatingg my guts. In a final insult, I reanimated and started staggering around! Oh the humanity!
…now doesn’t that sound fun? Sounds like the mod is still a work in process, but with enough content to make it all work right now. It’s almost tempting enough to make me go out and buy Armed Assault, but I’ll hold off for now and instead live vicariously through El Guapo on the Quarter To Three forums!
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Categories : Games
The future of websurfing
8 09 2008While Microsoft’s Internet Explorer bloats its way to oblivion (recent studies are showing the latest version can hit 300mb+ of RAM used after opening a dozen tabs, Mozilla is quitely revolutionising how people think about content. Check out this presentation on Ubiquity, a beautiful way to mash up your mail, web content, calendars and contacts. Neat!
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Blogging from my iPhone
21 07 2008WordPress have released a handy mobile portal which can be reached at http://m.wordpress.com
The portal allows you easy access to your blog from anywhere, meaning you can now blog on the bus, on the loo or in bed, like I am now!
And people say geeks don’t get any action!
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