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Archive for July 14th, 2008
14Jul
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes: ThinkSaber for the Mac
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Uncategorized
Thanks to an unnamed submitter (whose email bounced when I tried to thank him), ThinkSaber (available only in the subversion version for the moment) now also detects the presence of the Apple Motion Controller chip and will use that device if it’s available through PyGame. Yes, ThinkSaber now works on Linux Macs.
14Jul
Web development is game development minus two lines of code
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, python, web development
I recently wrote a game, and found it very much like developing a Javascript-based web application. (My wife, who’s a journalist with the video game industry beat, insists “it’s a toy, not a game. There is a difference.” I will defer.) If you’re a web developer who does a lot of Ajax, there is one [...]
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