matt’s

The ELFRUN developers are fighting for the highscore during their last tests with the game. mattin, here’s my reply.
Now I’m stuck in level 20.

Since mattin has let the cat out of the bag, here’s what we’ve worked on in the past weeks.

Head over to dermattin for more.

I didn’t talk to my girlfriend very much lately. I didn’t read many blogs. I didn’t watch any movies. I didn’t breathe much fresh air. I didn’t use my PC for anything more than listening to music or fetching mails. I didn’t sleep much more than four hours the last two weeks or so. I [...]

I didn’t write much lately because I am busy with other things that I will probably write more about later. But until then, I’ll give you a short insight in what I’m going to try over the Christmas holidays (and, as a consequence, what an ungodly man I am):
Left 4 Dead (already pre-ordered at amazon.co.uk)

Call [...]

Plus MacBook Pro owner since Saturday. Plus soon to become an iPhone owner. Plus a bit confused by Objective-C syntax already.

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I’ve been doing a bit XP at home lately.

I saw the following advertisement on AutoScout24 today.

5300 EUR for a 2007 Audi A3 ragtop. This looked too good to be true, indeed, but still I couldn’t hesitate to contact the seller. The telephone number shown in the ad turned out to be a fax number, so I tried to get in touch by email. [...]

Last year, I wrote several entries and a review on Glow, a diabolic Jump’n’Run created by my friends at Black Chronos.

Unfortunately, Glow did not bring the commercial success the folks behind Black Chronos had expected, so they eventually had to cease business. Fortunately, though, Glow will be released as freeware soon as stated on the [...]

I came across a funny side note in The Pragmatic Programmer:
In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth PI should have the value of “3″. The Bill was tabled indefinitely at its second reading when a mathematics professor pointed out that their powers did not quite extend to passing [...]

I have released another publication, a short (German) review of the last Spieleentwicklertreff NRW (Game Developers Gathering North Rhine-Westphalia) which took place at the Mediadesignhochschule Düsseldorf. Have a look!

Ooops, I didn’t write much lately since there wasn’t much to write about. I had great holidays and a fantastic New Years Eve, and I met some nice people in the past few days. I hope you all had a great time, too. A happy new year to everyone!
I digged through StudiVZ the other day [...]

Those who followed this blog for some time know that I attended a Genesis concert in June. On New Year’s Eve 3sat shows parts of the Turn It On Again tour concert in Rome. Should be worth watching, and the rest of the schedule looks promising, too. I’ll have a look before heading towards the [...]

(Image courtesy of mybestdesktops.com)

I have a BlackBerry 8800 for work which is generally a good thing. I can read and write email, notes and calendar entries from anywhere, surf the web, get a route calculated from my current position and so on and so on.

Still, it’s a work gadget, so it would be just half the fun if [...]

Without further ado, here is our cut-together of Dusmania 9.0 scenes plus original ingame footage plus official soundtrack tunes. Enjoy.

The other day KingKiKapu of fellow indie team Elite Software messaged me that he was called by an employee of his bank because he used “Whores and Crack” as a subject in a bank transfer. The employee asked whether this was in order.
Now how does that make you feel?
If this leaves a queasy feeling for [...]

Since a blog looks so much better when you have some images and stuff in it (see mattins blog for example), I thought I could post a YouTube video. Unfortunately though this requires writing a bit about it in the first place.
When I was a child I used to watch a TV show, “The Tripods” [...]

I tempered around with my Wordpress installation while I was waiting for DVW to compile (a full rebuild for all targets takes a considerably long time even on my dual core). I threw out Sidebar Modules (SBM) which is neither maintained any longer nor compatible with widgets and reactivated Wordpress Widgets instead. This was a [...]

Apparently someone has leaked internal DVW data, possibly using an iPod or iPhone, as the evidence shows. If you know this bastard, tell him that we’ll segfault him.