Dublin
August 2nd, 2009Sorry, but this post is not available in English
Tahoe
July 28th, 2009Sorry, but this post is not available in English
Wyoming & Montana
July 22nd, 2009Sorry, but this post is not available in English
Hawai’i
July 17th, 2009Sorry, but this post is not available in English
Stop motion
June 28th, 2009This weekend I’ve been playing with stop motion.
This is a time-lapse video captured during about 8 hours by the the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz , California.
I got my resume copied
June 11th, 2009Wanna hear something funny?
Let’s start with a couple of questions; Who thinks that knowing assembler is relevant for a web design internship? What about C and Python? What kind of web site (of a book publishing startup) is made using Lisp and Java?
Here is an internship description (non paid) from the web site of a startup I’ve interviewed with some time ago.
And here is an extract of my resume at that time:
I got my resume copied! (I highlighted some stuff).
A word of advice; If you ever found yourself interviewing with Dan H. run for your life!
Django Dash
May 31st, 2009As if it hadn’t been enough last time, this weekend I participated in another programming jam. This time using the Python web framwork Django. At least this time I didn’t participate alone. I tagged along Jeff Galper, a wonderful programmer interning with me at Createspace.
Awards for SF game jam
May 27th, 2009S’han anunciat els premis de la San Francisco bay area Game Jam. En la segona ronda, m’he classificat en primer i segon lloc!Se han anunciado los premios de la San Francisco bay area Game Jam. Me he classificado en primer y segundo lugar con mis juegosThe listings for the SF game jam are published. I secured first AND second places!
I’ve embedded the game in my various websites, I created a game development blog, I created widgets at Widgetbox, ClearSpring and iGoogle and I’ve emailed friends from all over the world. And looks like it worked!
I’ve received several e-mails from people asking about the development platform. I’ve received congratulations and more than one person asked me about Mac support (a call to the developers here!). I tried to reply all of them and asked them for their votes and eventually it paid back.
At the end of the game jam I was really disappointed with the results. I really liked the Brains game. When the popular choice opened I had big hopes and was expecting the top runners to be Brains, In Space It Only Rains Space Rocks and Shoved.
I guess that there were no incentives to continue Lava ball or Cement tower, in which I had seen a lot of potential too. Too bad. I was also disappointed at the other winning teams not pursuiting their creations. Bumper Bash had some fixtures but what happened to Save the boy?
I never really understood Lost soul but it has very polished visuals. I guess that the promotion through the development blog also helped there.
| Game | Rating Score | Total Plays Score | Embed Score | Total Score | |
| 1 | Bounce ‘em Down | 28.53 | 12.97 | 28.00 | 69.49 |
| 2 | The Tank | 7.92 | 30.16 | 18.67 | 56.75 |
| 3 | Braaaains | 20.21 | 17.55 | 12.00 | 49.76 |
| 4 | Lost Soul | 17.99 | 13.81 | 8.00 | 39.79 |
| 5 | Save the Boy | 4.57 | 1.74 | 13.33 | 19.65 |
| 6 | Bumper Bash | 5.35 | 1.61 | 12.00 | 18.96 |
| 7 | Lava Ball | 9.89 | 4.55 | 1.33 | 15.78 |
| 8 | Art Craft | 6.25 | 3.84 | 1.33 | 11.42 |
| 9 | Flying Wombat Combat | 5.27 | 0.90 | 4.00 | 10.18 |
| 10 | Cement Tower | 7.65 | 2.29 | 0.00 | 9.94 |
| 11 | Shoved | 7.20 | 1.39 | 0.00 | 8.58 |
| 12 | In Space it Only Rains Rocks | 6.35 | 1.19 | 0.00 | 7.54 |
| 13 | Outbreak | 2.82 | 1.06 | 1.33 | 5.22 |
| 14 | Colony Defender | 4.12 | 1.10 | 0.00 | 5.22 |
| 15 | Robot Tower Wars | 3.42 | 1.16 | 0.00 | 4.58 |
| 16 | Fighting AIDS | 3.42 | 1.13 | 0.00 | 4.55 |
| 17 | Jungle Rundown | 2.75 | 1.32 | 0.00 | 4.07 |
| 18 | Elemental | 2.57 | 0.71 | 0.00 | 3.28 |
| 19 | Save Tommy | 2.50 | 0.74 | 0.00 | 3.24 |
| 20 | Qniverse | 2.32 | 0.77 | 0.00 | 3.10 |
SF Game Jam People’s choice
May 4th, 2009The voting for the People’s choice award for the SF Game Jam is open.
I’d like to invite you to play my games and vote for them.
Thanks!
Video game design
May 3rd, 2009I’ve started a new blog about video game design using Wild Pockets
