Jan

8

Zolyx 2009 analysis

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A long time ago, in a blog post far, far away I set out my goals for 2009. With the power of bullet points, stats, and graphs, it’s time to criticise myself and see how miserably I have failed in my aspirations for last year…
Goals

Write more interesting stuff for the site. Hmm. [...]

Jan

3

Meh

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Unfortunately, due to a point of principal concerning my current web hosts, I will be looking to switch hosting provider very soon. If you have any suggestions for a fast, UK-based host that supports PHP and mySQL – tell me about them! Here’s your chance to get a referral
My particular grudge is nothing [...]

Aug

10

Castles in the sky

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Twitter followers might see that I’ve been playing the classic NES platformer Super Mario Brothers lately. Since I call myself a retro gamer, it’s on my list of “games to play and finish” – along with a whole slew of other oldschool console games (which I might get around to posting some time). In doing [...]

Apr

19

Five ways to waste time

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Not that I would ever consider doing such a thing when there is so much else to be done, but here (in no particular order) are five ways I quite often end up using the interweb to waste time…

Watch stuff on YouTube. My personal favourites being anything in the Let’s Play… category. If you like [...]

Mar

24

A couple of things

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That wouldn’t quite be the tomorrow I planned, then…
Dalyn’s Quill is approaching usability but is still weeks away from being released. I feel sure that I said somewhere that this would be a quick project to tide me over ’til I come up with a plan for my third game – if this [...]

Mar

6

Can it be? RGCD #5!

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Breaking news! IT’S BACK!
RGCD #5 is now available!
And with it comes a spifftastic and star-studded selection of reviews, articles and extras covering a year’s worth of retro gaming. You thought it was dead, didn’t you? I’ll admit that I was thinking the same at one stage. Fortunately it is [...]

Jan

1

Happy New Year!

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2009
Happy New Year!
It’s a time when a lot of people will be thinking about what their New Year’s resolutions should be. But keep in mind: New Year’s resolutions can be bad for you! Whatever you decide you want to do this year, I wish you good luck and success all the way.
These aren’t [...]

Nov

23

Absolutely Quilliant!

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Although the coding has been fun, it’s also been really nice not to have Millenipede-related problems or ideas nagging at the back of my mind for the past couple of weeks! There’s a never a “perfect” game and I can still think of other things to add, but I think it’s okay to [...]

Nov

13

Time to get really angry

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World of Warcraft’s second expansion – Wrath of the Lich King – is out!
The servers are trembling with fear as legions of Death Knights start tromping around the Eastern Plaguelands and boats from Stormwind and Menethil groan under the weight of thousands of adventurers heading out to the new continent, Northrend. The Horde’s zeppelins are [...]

Sep

2

So what happened in August?

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I got a few things done last month but didn’t manage a clean sweep. I really should stop setting myself deadlines since I never seem to hit them on time!
The place is looking a little nicer and a couple bugs got squashed while I was tweaking the theme and adding various stuff, but two of [...]

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