Omigosh omigosh omigosh the Spore Creature Creator is out, for both PC and Mac!

I've got the Mac trial demo installed and am just about to give it a spin. I'm really keen on getting a taste of how Spore will feel like, and to see if there's any obvious issues with Mac compatibility. I'll post more i…

...continuing on from the last step...

I narrowed down the list of typefaces to a few that caught my eye, and out of those I chose three to use in a few mock-ups:


Left: Marker Felt (comes with Mac OS X)
Centre: Icicle Country 2 (a free Larabie Font)
Right: Hobo Std (Adobe font)

Incidentally, I really re…

This is a continuation of the logo design notes from before. Feel free to put any comments for that post under this one.

I've had a brief look at fonts by going through all the ones installed on my computer and comparing ones that catch my interest. Here's a sampler:



There's a variety of techie looki…

Gah, I've been procrastinating like crazy over the last day or two. I guess I need to impose a moratorium on myself for posting in the Lounge until I get things going again, although I'll still probably take a peek in there now and again to see what's going on. I've got very poor self control.

At th…

Lengthy trial folds as jurors play Sudoku

A THREE-month drugs trial has been aborted at a cost of "millions" after the jury's forewoman admitted playing the number game Sudoku for at least half of the trial.

The District Court trial in Sydney, which cannot be identified for legal reasons, was aborte…

I just noticed in the control panel that I'm on 4444 posts, with an average of just under 4 posts per day to GameDev.net. It doesn't sound too much until you realise that's 4 posts on average over the course of three years. I probably should have a few more GameDev.net free days, although I find th…

I've been making some posts on copy protection over in a thread in the lounge at the moment which I think is best expanded upon here, otherwise I'd completely hijack the other thread to my own purposes. Plus it fits neatly as a continuation from my previous journal post.

In the last journal post I e…

I only caught up with the buzz that's been going on in some murky corners of the internet over the announcement of the Super SecuROM copy protection scheme for using the PC version of Mass Effect today. I got drawn in by the tag-line that it's going to be used in Spore as well, given that Spore's t…

I made a post about this in my own journal at trazoi.net, but I know more people view the one here (and who can blame you?) It's more art than gamedev related, but there are strong gamey overtones.

I'm currently practising my cartooning via the new Inkscape (0.46) to see how well it ticks, as well a…

My brief experimentation with prototyping a new game idea in Flash didn't quite get off the ground. I realised pretty early on that I'm way too new with the whole Flash thing to do anything creative within the few hours I had. I spend most of that time fighting against the interface and trying to f…