Huzzah for another journal view milestone passed with 50,000 views. I guess this means my journal is in the Silver Club or something.

The MAGIC contest seems to be going well, although I'm saddened by the news of Prozak's mother.

From what I see the games are starting to shape forth, although it's ha…

You know you might be a game programmer if when you're ill your idea of "bed rest" involves a laptop and a programming IDE. I wasn't able to get a lot done but I've got the basis app running with some mountains to make a background. I'm feeling a lot better this morning so I hope I'll be able to ma…

It's now well into day 2 of the MAGIC contest, and I've hit a fairly big snag for my own game; it seems I've caught some kind of viral bug (which might explain why I was so off colour yesterday). It doesn't seem that serious as the only symptoms I can feel is a reaccuring sense of giddiness, tiredn…

I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of activity going on at the MAGIC Game Development wiki; there's a lot of posting and comments and great ideas being formed there. I've decided to also add my name to list of developers on there, even though I'm not officially a "contestant". My user talk pa…

If you're interested in joining the MAGIC contest you probably already know what the mystery aspect is. For those who haven't moseyed on down to the contest thread in the lounge, the secret theme is The Tower. That's the kind of contest themes you dream up when you use a pack of Tarot cards for ins…

Download Brixtar v0.2 for Windows (732 KB)
Download Brixtar v0.2 for Mac OS X (1.78 MB)


I've got the next version of Brixtar ready. In terms of raw gameplay features it's pretty much the same as the original, except for the following additions:

• Mac OS X support. Brixtar is now multi-platform. My broth…

Poll's now over. The left card wins the popular vote!

I commented in a thread recently that the book selection algorithm in the Control Panel must be trying to send me a not-too-subtle message by regularly selecting "Game Programming for Teens" as its top pick. After posting that, it has now upgraded to offering me "Unreal Tournament Game Programming …

I spent yesterday doing a whole bunch of things that weren't working on Brixtar. I needed a bit of a break to do important things, like realise that the Mozilla Thunderbird logo is actually a postal delivery bird and not, as I had originally thought, an envelope in a bad punk rocker wig.

Not a wig
Th…

Download Brixtar Alpha - Windows Version


I've finally got a version of Brixtar ready for download. It's a bit scrappy around the edges, and I haven't had much time to play test it yet, but it should be a good sample of the game.

Currently I've only got the Windows version ready. There's still a few k…