Two points: Firstly, is it normal for a fully grown adult to feel regret about throwing away a box full of those cool polystyrene packing beads?

Secondly, for Dr. McNinja fans: a possible tie-in to 4E6?

I noticed a week ago that the Australian dollar was fetching over ninety US cents a couple of weeks back, so I thought it was a good time to do some overseas shopping for myself and early presents for Christmas (factoring in delays in shipping time.)

I've since noticed that the exchange rate has sin…

I have concluded the poll I was running over at trazoi.net on what people think is the most challenging element in 4E6. Since 4E6 is more directly relevent to the community over here, I think it best I post my extended analysis in this journal than the one I keep over on my own website.

The end resu…

I've been making somewhat regular posts over at trazoi.net, but I plan to be regularly posting summaries of the game related stuff over here. Here's my first such attempt to keep my journal from slipping off the radar.

I got my MacBook Pro back sans dead pixels, and am up and running once again. I a…

This may be the last tandem entry at both my GameDev.net journal and trazoi.net. I'm not going to be stopping either; I've just resubscribed for another year at GDNet and I'm keen on expanding my own site in the near future; but I think it's time to give each it's own flavour. Plus I'm getting sick…

I delivered my MacBook Pro to the shop for repair today, so I'll be without my main development platform for this week. Actual Flash development will be hold, although I might spend some time designing ActionScript classes.

During the time I'm without my Mac, I'll spend a bit of time resurrecting so…

Results for the poll: Which player suit are you?

• Diamonds (Achiever): 2 votes


• Spades (Explorer): 6 votes


• Hearts (Socialiser) 0 votes


• Clubs (Killer) 1 votes

This was pretty much the result I expected. As of now I expect my main traffic comes from people at GameDev.net, and game developers are very much t…

The next game in ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University is a shooting game called "Air Raid", where you move a cannon from left to right to shoot down aircraft. However I've decided I'd prefer to branch out a little and make something else up vaguely in the same area. I settled on an old scho…

I've finally finished off my second Flash game - I figured I'd never stop tinkering with it unless I decided to just call it done.


Here's a link to Code Breaker, my second flash game

And here's a link to my trazoi.net entry for the game, for comments


Tell me what you think, so I can improve in my next…

Only one more weekday before the long weekend. Most people celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work, but I'll use some of the extra time to make some general improvements to the website. I'll also be continuing with learning Flash game development. I've got my next game almost finished - the core…