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Michael Tanczos

Michael Tanczos.. Gamedev.net code monkey

Member since Jun 1999

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Active and pasive

Taking turns at being active and pasiveIn the previous blog post I was discussing about micromanagement. I would like to talk about macromanagement a...

Meet Eva

Meet Eva

DirectXI've reached the end with my DirectX exploration. I've had a glimpse into the world of professional game developers and this has gotten me...

New Developments

New Developments

We've put a number of new developments on hold to focus on polishing a number of site issues and features. You can expect a number of improvements in...

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Phone Scammer

Phone Scammer

So today I got a random phone call.. It was from a phone scammer. "ooooooooh, my first real phone scam!", I thought. This was not an opportunity I...

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So what designs made the cutting room floor?

So what designs made the cutting room floor?

Here are some of the designs I made that never made it out the door. The color scheme pretty much had to be the blue you see now. Though the process...

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Can't wait

Can't wait

I hope our server troubles are over. Then we can finally get around to finishing up our new site design.Happy Thanksgiving to all you people from the...

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Soccer Season

Soccer Season

Okay, so I already coach a U-17 co-ed soccer team.. well starting this Monday I'll be a pre-season assistant varsity soccer team coach for Easton...

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Dear World,

Dear World,

Hi all, my name is Opera. I am a web browser that has advertisements unless you pay for me. You know what's great about me? I do everything Mozilla...

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Sweet system..

Sweet system..

This is going to be on my "if I had the money list". Right now I have a p4 2.4ghz w/ 1 gig ram, 2x250 gig SATA150 hard drives in raid 1, 2x120 gig...

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Why the rating system is good

Why the rating system is good

The rating system was controversial when first implemented, but it was immediately proceeded with a rather large community shakedown where all of a...

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P-Ball

P-Ball

Went out playing paintball on sunday.. it was probably not the best experience I've ever had at Skirmish. It took a long time just to get out on the...

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Interesting Trivia..

Interesting Trivia..

How did gamedev.net get it's name? Well, we had devgames.com, sweetoblivion.com, and gameprog.com all available since those were our pre-existing...

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Soccer Season

Soccer Season

Paintball sunday.. should be interesting. I wish their were more PA folks in my area that could go. Right now it's just skittleo, whose gonna take a...

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USSF "D" License

USSF "D" License

Blogging what I'm learning..To keep kids involved, keep the game fun.A practice is generally structured by having some individual component, a small...

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Almost done for summer..

Almost done for summer..

The school I teach at lets teachers out for the summer on June 10th. I have a grad class that takes up about 5 1/2 hours a night meeting three nights...

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