A great video of a procedural city generator. Seen at serial consign, via DesignNotes.
The cities in the video above, with a bit more art direction, look like they could be right out of a Spiderman game, or Mirror’s Edge. Procedural content, especially in terms of environment design, is an iffy area, but those topographies [...]

And I really didn’t even care about it.
I stopped by Border’s this evening after eating dinner nearby, and decided to pick up a new soft cover Moleskine notebook, with a few of the smaller, pocket-sized notebooks for on-the-go note taking.
It occurred to me, while driving home, that the cost of the notebooks was higher than [...]

This is just sad.
A federal jury this afternoon found that an Austin police officer and two former officers did not use excessive force against Ramon Hernandez, whom they were videotaped beating in September 2005.
There’s a video linked from the article of the event in question. There’s no disputing that Ramon Hernandez should have been arrested, [...]

I was interviewed earlier today for an industry perspective regarding an incredibly tragic incident which happened here in Central Texas. My short snippet said something to the effect of, “If parents object to a game their kids are playing, they should feel like they can step in and stop it. It’s a parent’s responsibility to [...]

The embargo on the EIEIO writeups was lifted tonight, and the first pieces are generally positive (save for some mention of framerate issues, which are to be expected in a pre-pre-alpha version of a game).
Work continues, we’re hammering on feature iteration and level iteration, there are some great ideas being suggested and overall I have [...]

One week from today we’ll be presenting our game to the press. Real-time for the first time. And that is exciting.
EIEIO, starting at 6pm, will be open to the public. You won’t be able to see Mushroom Men, yet, but you can enjoy a Gamecock party.

FedEx has delivered more than a few packages to me at my new apartment. Except not all of them are for me. Many are, in fact, addressed to somebody else, though the address is the same.
So each time these packages are delivered, I call FedEx and I tell them, “You delivered packages to my address, [...]

Although it’s more than six months old, I ran across this video today.

I had the good fortune to know Charles Mudede when I lived in Seattle. I met him through mutual friends, and we even read a couple books in the same reading group. He’s an incredibly smart man, and I look forward to seeing [...]

Monica left this morning for LA. Her plane should be touching down right now, if it hasn’t already landed.
It’s a tremendous bummer not having her in Austin anymore. She was definitely a huge part of what made this town cool and fun and interesting. My heart is heavy.

There was a bomb scare in Austin. A legitimate scare, because the device found was a bomb. Packed with nails — designed to seriously maim people. Why wasn’t this reported on more widely? Because the target was an abortion clinic. Can’t be terrorism, right? Just some nutty pro-lifer trying to harm women, again. Nothing to [...]