wildwinter

After my rant of a few weeks ago (about the difficulty of getting into games jobs) I have news…

From Jan 2010 I will be a Senior Developer for Traveler’s Tales – the guys behind Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones. Will be living in Cheshire during the week, and at home in Cardiff for weekends.

All change.

Muppet’s Bohemian Rhapsody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY

Just a quick reminder that if you’re looking to improve a kid’s vocabulary for Christmas, you can’t do better than My Worst Words.

Just imagine the happily drunken hours around the Christmas tree, watching the grandparents’ faces as their little cherub pipes up with exactly what they see on the page.

G’wan — you know you want to.

Dragon Age is the new Baldur’s Gate.

Highly recommended…

A new AS3 particle engine with some very nice demos:

Stardust

A really neat little AIR-based IDE.

MiniBuilder.

Press Release.

Excellent news…

Things which have caught my attention recently:

• A modular application framework for AIR allowing download of signed and non-signed SWFs into different sandboxes…
• Away 3D Lite released – a stripped down version of A3D with some really impressive speed/size numbers.
• Also in Away3D news, Prefab has been released; a comprehensive tool for baking lightmaps on to Away3D models.
• Sean McCracken’s experiments with hacking Tamarin/AVM2 and adding Irrlicht support.
• The Cocos2D game framework for the iPhone – nice!

Now back to experiment with both Objective-C and the Android API…

Today I had my first film script optioned by a production company.