I changed the look of the site a bit. The most obvious change is the color scheme. Feedback is welcome. (Graphical help as well, although I like these colors ;)
Oh yeah, if the site looks sorta kinda like it did before: hit refresh, your browser may be caching the stylesheets or something.
Yes, I have not updated in a while. No, writing this does not count as an update. I am, in fact, alive. In related news: I am changing my internet provider, which also involves moving my site to another web server. This may lead to outages. I apologise in advance.
Update: No, wait. This site is fully hosted by TypePad. Changing internet provider does not affect it one little bit. Also, my other site was effortlessly transferred in about one minute.
I am, in fact, still alive, although very busy. Many interesting things are going on without being commented by me. And yet… life goes on.
Personal note: I bought a new iBook G4 to replace my iBook G3. It looks identical, but is faster. Such is geekdom.
Well, I’m back from GDC. I had a monster meeting on monday and tuesday and then spent the rest of the week doing the follow-up of that meeting, starting a small side-project I am also producing, catching up with everything that has happened (or not happened) in the last week and a half, and recovering from jet-lag (which apparently always hits me a couple of days after arriving back in Europe). But now I am back in my normal rhythm, sorta kinda.
I have Things to Say about the GDC, and I will do so in various posts. Of course, knowing me, those posts may not turn up until next year. After all, where are my posts on GDC 2003? Or Imagina? Luckily, the fate of the universe does not depend on the timeliness of my writing on this site.
There have been some changes in the game blog world recently.
Jamie Fristrom has mutated GameDevLeague into GameDevBlog, using TypePad, just like me.
Tobias Mayr, who was the lead designer on GTA: Vice City on the Xbox, is blogging about games again. He’s using iBlog. I heard him curse a lot while he was figuring it out, but the end result is that it is very well integrated into the rest of his site. It doesn’t appear to be quite finished yet - at least I have trouble finding his great photo section.
A gentleman called Toby Donaldson has started a game blog called Game On. It has made me painfully aware of the fact that I should try to get rid of the standard TypePad look of my own site…
Update: I have updated my links section.
As you may have noticed, I have rearranged the links to other sites on the left side of the page. My previous system was too rigid and did not allow me to link to sites I wanted to link to. (Don’t ask me to explain the logic behind my previous system.) This approach takes up more space but gives me more freedom. I may tweak the style sheets a bit.
Yes, I am still here.
After about three weeks of allowing anonymous comments, I am disabling this feature again. I don’t think there was a significant increase of comments, but there have been two cases of trolling and two bits of spam.
Remember: comment email addresses are scrambled. Humans can read it, spiders have a bit more trouble. And it’s not that hard to fake an email address.
Update: I’ve deleted the two spam comments, but I’ve left in the anonymous all-caps abuse.
At the request of Thaddaeus Frogley, whose real email address is… no, just kidding… I’ve looked into the whole email address thing.
Basically, if you give a URL and an email address, your email address is not present in the HTML. If you just give an email address, it is in the HTML, but its scrambled, which means humans can read it, but bots have trouble.
I’ve allowed anonymous comments on this blog now. If it causes trouble, eg comment spam, I will have to deactivate it again.
I wrote the previous post using a tool called Kung-Log, written by a fellow Dutch person. It allows me to write blog posts in an application instead of a browser. Which gives me advanced functionality such as, ah, undo (which Safari’s text editing field does not provide), but more amazingly, HTML shortcuts, meaning I never have to type <a href=”" target=”_blank”></a> ever again. So far, I’m quite happy with it.
Update: It even allows me to go back and edit entries I’ve already posted.
I was still ill, so I decided to move to a new weblog system: TypePad. The transfer of the posts was painless. The comments are, alas, all lost.
Getting my domain to point to this blog will take only a few days (I hope). But then everything should be properly in one domain, instead of still showing that I’m using some crummy free webspace my provider offered me.
Once that’s done I can start tweaking with the layout again.
Update: The domain points to the new blog. It went a lot faster than I expected.
TypePad is da bomb.
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