As any good parent, I keep a couple of games on my BlackBerry to entertain my kids (and myself) in a pinch. As it turns out, my daughter fell in love with this game called Pixelated (thanks Ebscer). Unfortunately, this game does not exist on the PC…well…it didn’t. So, as a present to my little […]
Mouse Icon
Almost every single time I mock up a screen for work, I find myself searching on the internet (thanks, Google Images) for “mouse cursor.” The last time I did this, one of the images was a screen capture of the Windows Control Panel screen (where users can change the mouse cursor). Now, I do this […]
Return to the Web Site
Anyone still out there? It’s hard to believe that it has been over a year since my last post! No kidding, I remember that night like it was yesterday. Well, it has been an absolutely incredible year. I hope that you and yours had a blessed and Merry Christmas and I wish you a prosperous […]
Spatial Awareness
The moon is absolutely gorgeous tonight. Perhaps it’s the cool, crisp air that makes it look so clear – accentuated by a few scattered clouds that give it the illusion of being a spotlight pointing to another place on the planet. A spotlight. Interesting. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, right? The […]
Wow…almost 6 years!
Six years ago, blogging was still pretty new. Relatively new, I guess. Looking back, it seems like I was pretty angry. I think that’s why I stopped writing. I didn’t enjoy being negative. Then why be negative? Most of the blogs I had been reading were “rants.” Hence the former title of “Insane Rants.” Rants […]
My Paradox
Last night, I updated my (first) blog. It was my third post. I started the blog in 2002. When I first started it, blogging was still (relatively) new. So, being a young guy with extra time, I started a blog. Then begins the paradox. I never once considered, “hey, what novel way can I use […]
Traffic (2007)
Traffic is a slight variation on the match-three style game. In fact, there really is no matching. When I started designing this game, I was really not planning on yet another Pipe Dream/Pipe Mania clone. I had something else in mind. Something that is now very elusive. In my mind’s eye, the original game had […]
Wild (2006)
Wild is a three-in-a-row style game. Each time you click, you make a block “wild” and drop three new blocks from the top. I started working on Wild after one of my Snood kicks. The goal was to create an easy to play game that you could play on two levels – you could just […]
Happy Halloween?
What’s up with trick-or-treating? I used to do it when I was a kid, but I always dressed up! If I am going to go ask someone for candy, I think I need to be dressed up. And I always said “trick-or-treat.” This year, kids came to my door, rang the door bell, and when […]
War…What is it good for?
Killing overpowered dictators. I was listening to NPR a couple of weeks ago. Prez Bush had just spoken with the leaders of Russia (Putin), France (Jacques Chirac), Canada, and China (I believe these are the leaders that comprise the UN Security Council). I forget the deal with Canada, but the other three had quite interesting […]
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