Mark Videon

The expo is great. It’s also where the state could and should have been a decade ago. My experience with government agencies is one of the threads that led to my conceptualisation of software development as the creation and “maintenance” (I don’t believe this word appropriate) of factories

It was also hard not to feel a little sad that it wasn’t established many years ago. After the Film Corp was assigned the responsibility of managing games programs I came to feel that not only did they not meet that responsibility but also that they weren’t interested in it

Today I visited the SA Games Expo hosted by the SA Film Corporation and saw some great stuff.

Find it strange this article doesn’t mention the Epic Games lawsuits at all

we’re in hell basically

I’ve travelled to Melbourne for Freeplay stuff a number of times and it has never failed to inspire. Very sad to see this

Interesting…

Revolution After Revolution There is a modern tradition where when new technologies (or primitives) emerge they are accompanied by a chorus of people who are prepared to assert in good faith or otherwise that the game has change...

This one is about the metaverse... or is it

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Congratulations mate

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Fusion

Zero Mission

Metroid Fusion is incredibly punishing, if this were the only game in the series I had played I’d probably never touch the seres again

a man in a green sweater stands in front of a fireplace in a living room ALT: a man in a green sweater stands in front of a fireplace in a living room

How hard could it be

true

GitHub - w3c/gamepad: Gamepad Gamepad. Contribute to w3c/gamepad development by creating an account on GitHub.

There’s public stuff on GitHub github.com/w3c/gamepad

The standard is in development, public discussions are not particularly active, super frustrating.

With Nintendo Switch Online I've been playing games that I always wanted to play as a kid but never had the opportunity to, and folks, Metroid Zero Mission rules

This kind of stuff has been totally ground out of video games for so long that many people would have no idea that once upon a time there were modes of engagement beyond transactions

inter-game features are so cool

You’re building something that has never been built before. You’re asked to guess how long it will take to do it. You are held to this estimate because no one really engages with point 1

Needless suffering

I am astonished by the increasing prevalence of gambling in (video) games media

Are gamblers really performing consumer research to find new games to play?

I remember renting it over 20 years ago 😱

Sky’s the Limit: The Cloud9 × JetBrains Global Hackathon Is Live | The JetBrains Blog Last month, we announced that JetBrains is now the Official AI-Powered Coding Partner of Cloud9. The response from the community has been incredible, and today, we’re taking the next step in that jour

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Consolidation benefits shareholders

For as long as I can remember I’ve largely seen mergers and acquisitions celebrated by customers and workers, in defiance of what happens in their wake, time after time.

Pity the naming conventions prohibit Package Name (Taylor’s Version)

re-reading the options this might be ambiguous, no extension

package name and it’s not close

And now it's on top of the mountain. What a journey