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For god’s sake, play Sword and Sworcery on the iPad. Environment, soundtrack and aesthetic is incredibly hip. It’s Out of this World both figuratively and referentially. I tweeted @the1console asking about the engine and they said:

Also I’ll try and expose more process stuff with blog posts & videos from members of the team, once the whirlwind dies down.

Looking forward to that. He said it’s all home grown code. Awesome. I’m really interested to know about how the animation interpolation system works and what kind of fake 3D they are doing for the scrolling movement. I hope he puts a little bit of time into the write-up if they don’t release a significant amount of code.

I’ve been looking at various iOS game frameworks recently like Sparrow and Cocos2d; I haven’t done any tests with them yet. Seeing something this polished and original is extremely inspiring but also amazing in that they probably used minimal frameworks. I can’t imagine them using sprites and textures, I would guess it’s all procedurally generated which I can relate to. I’m not an artist but I can make pixels move.

Hats off to these guys for making a model title that will be referenced for a long time.

Another grid! From the current 2011 WWDC invite. As blogged about in my Sucker For Grids post.

The only people that care about the difference between nerds and geeks are nerds and geeks. This graph is from google ngrams, a fun little toy that shows you how many times a word appears in books. Books only. There are many interesting results that people are finding on the web.

Did this a while ago but never posted the screenshot I took of the project. Big track up top in the picture is the original. I spent a few days on each section. So many tracks that I had to break out the orchestra parts to another project, bounce it and bring it back in.

Hard tune to cover. Hard to get the exact retro sound. Also need a better and more realistic synth.

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I took a measuring tape to the basketball court near me. Turns out that the basketball court has a bit of a tennis box or something inside the court that is exactly 10 yards width and double that in length. So it’s perfect for the 10 yard shuttle test by TSC. Is this Albert Hayneworth’s nightmare? I dunno.

Anyway, I warmed up a bit and ran it like this:

Attempts:
1st: 00:15:92
2nd: 00:15:64
3rd: 00:14:92

Between each attempt, I took a 2 minute rest but tried to stay limber. The side to side action I feel is where I’m the slowest. Straight ahead speed and acceleration really doesn’t help you much. Really the hardest part is stopping the clock when you’re running backwards at the end.

I’ve also been playing basketball everyday to see what my limit is. It’s 7 days. I tried to play some one-on-one yesterday (on the 7th day) and never been so stiff after taking a short break. I’m currently doing shin splint stretches to try to reduce the shin ache.

This also nearly is the one year anniversary when I promised myself I’d get fit again. It was kind of a slow ramp-up of learning, getting used to the gym and starting a routine. I started running, then hit the gym exclusively, then started doing intervals, then screwed up my ankle with tendonitis and now I’m on a basketball kick.

It’s all for myself. Nobody cares. And that’s ok. That’s been the advice for a while. I blog for myself, I workout for myself. I’m getting better at basketball (even if I’m short) for myself. Case in point, working on my shot. I got into the zone and hit 6 three pointers in a row. The net snapping, perfect spin, exactly where I wanted to put it. The playground, field and court are full of people. Nobody noticed. I laughed to myself: “nobody cares, do it for yourself”.

My one-on-one game sucks. I lost 05-13 and 02-11. Can’t guard the layup moves. I have no layup moves. I miss the hard shots and only have hard shots. My speed can’t blow by the defender without tiring me out. I think another year of random pickup games and screwing around and my 1v1 game might give the former HS/College players more of a 07-13 loss-feel. For now, I suck. I’m ok when I’m the medium to tall guy in a 4v4 full court game. I just take hard shots that barely miss. Two bounces on the rim, miss. I need to work on my under-pressure game.

Kittyclysm. Meow all the way to 85.

Why yes Google, I did mean that. Thin Q smelly mush.

Some of the shirts are funny. There’s a few I’m going to get for some friends. But most of them are like “ah” funny versus the things I like from oddica or threadless. I wonder when the original t-shirt things will die off. Is it the irony? Or is it art? If it’s art, it probably won’t wear thin.

Lots of movie and Internet quotes. Meh?

If I’m going to get anything silly, it’s going to get a set of goggles and a lab coat for Thanksgibbing this year. Dr. Sproinky in full effect.

Finished FFXIII. It’s well done but I didn’t like it that much. The ending was super sweet and I never noticed the logo significance until then. I didn’t go 100%, didn’t really want to. I think twelve was a better game.

Finished Darksiders. Really great game overall. I was only two armageddon blade shards away from the end. I got the abysmal armor set and had no problems with the end boss (one shot). I hope they do another one. It was a great ride although the framerate and feel was kinda weird the whole way through.

Tonbos is playing WoW again. I’m about 20% tempted. But I’ve got some fun productive things rolling on squarism, can’t lose the groove. I’m interested as to what has changed. But I’m not excited about being overwhelmed again. I tried playing again about a year ago and it was a bit overpowering. I just looked at my inventory, all the items, all the things to do and no one really noticed I was back. I don’t think anything will have changed in that regard but I’m interested to see how Kittycylsm will affect the game.

Finished PixelJunk shooter. I was just a few gems away from opening the last boss fight.

Right now, I’m starting back up on Heavy Rain. Then my finish list looks something like this:

• MLB08 (one season)
• Demon’s Souls (I might sell it actually)
• Okami
• Assasin’s Creed 2
• Skate (1)
• Little Big Planet
• Beatles Rock Band
• Rock Band 2

I don’t even want to talk about the unopened list. Hey Batman, I see you.