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Tech Arena Returns!

Tech Arena Returns!

Not so much of a "return" as it's been in development. Things had slowed down during the whole family-building process but have been in full swing...

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Doin' the .com hump!

Doin' the .com hump!

Behold! The life-death-cycle pattern that nearly all startup companies have been following for nearly 20 years:[size="2"]A) [color="#696969"]Design...

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A small bump in the road

A small bump in the road

Great news! After two months of job hunting, I managed to find something with good pay and a flexible schedule. I set out to find a job that would...

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Untitled

Untitled

The new terrain generator is still being integrated with the game's resource management system. I was planning on having it ready this week but it's...

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Extensible Terrain Generation

Extensible Terrain Generation

Hope everyone had a great Fourth!Now that I've fully recovered from the weekend celebrations, I spent the morning wrapping up the terrain generator...

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Tech lives!

Tech lives!

THE TECH SERIES"Virtually unlimited technological advancement in a socioeconomic system."The Tech Series, as the above quote ambiguously suggests, is...

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Is all the world a stage?

Is all the world a stage?

I blelieve this to be one of my most important entries (and the only in a long overdue time) because it addresses money, quality of life, mental...

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Another note....

Another note....

Put a song together and placed it in the anouncements forumNew songAs was said in the thread:"I've just finished putting a new song together. I'm...

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Shots of much screeniness

Shots of much screeniness

This is the GUI I've been working on for Tech. Everything is based off of a single Class, CGUIObject. Which commands all the basic behavior of the...

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ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

I've been spending entirely too much time lately doing home-improvie type things... and partying. I said to myself, "Self, you should really take a...

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WTF happened to my BG color?

WTF happened to my BG color?

Since they change over to the Christmas pattern, my background on my entries went to the background of the page contents. Damn.Anywho, it's the...

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Creepin' along

Creepin' along

I made a pretty stupid mistake. I'm pretty new at multi-threading... and it shows. I've divided up my application into separate parts to be threaded:...

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Rockin' the multi-threadedness

Rockin' the multi-threadedness

SUCCESS! My graphics engine is now multi-threaded! This means that the GUI and game rendering run on seperate threads and if the game bogs down (< 16...

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I'm psyched!  Screenies coming soon =)

I'm psyched! Screenies coming soon =)

The new video and GUI are FINALLY integrated into the game application! WOOHOO!!! I've been adding to and tweaking the framework architecture and I'm...

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Recovering from the weekend

Recovering from the weekend

Had a party at the new house this weekend! w00t! Obviously, I didn't get any work done... Sorry, PC! Now that the hangover's passed, I can get back...

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Feast your eyes on this sexy be-otch!

Feast your eyes on this sexy be-otch!

That's right! You're lookin' at a picture of yours truly. Now, settle down ladies. One at a time.I found this on my harddrive at work and couldn't...

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Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished

WOOHOO!!! The move to the new house is now complete!I'm still having some work done to the house, buying cheap crap to fill it with and making some...

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Draining the world of it's caffiene supply

Draining the world of it's caffiene supply

As usual, programming 40 hrs per week and scheduling development around a social life is excruciatingly slow. However, I've made SOME progress. The...

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Ahhh, the frustration of bein' a programmer

Ahhh, the frustration of bein' a programmer

Ya know those times when you just can't get something to work and you just don't know why? Yeah, this is one of those times.I'm almost done with the...

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