YoFrankie! is a game developed and funded by The Blender Foundation (and the community) in other to enhance Blender’s gaming capabilities; and design and implement new features. As a result of the development of this game, all the features developed within the project are now available in new versions of Blender, the 3D software.
It is very interesting the history behind the Blender project. I recommend you check it out. It is one (of many) success cases in Open Source development.
Monkey Island is back…and back for good! It seems that there’s a Monkey Island mania out there. And I think it’s great! In the previous post I wrote a year ago, LucasArts was announcing the re-make of “The Secret Of Monkey Island”. Well, not only that re-make was launched but also they made a re-make of “Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge”. And it is available now.
On the other hand, Telltale Games launched a NEW Monkey Island game called “Tales of Monkey Island”. Brought to us in five “short” chapters instead of a “long” game, as it’s usual for the company. They have all been released now and I must say they highly exceeded my expectations. Bringing a new, fun, playable and state-of-the-art Monkey Island game to life. This might be the result of being developed by a company founded by ex-LucasArts employees.
I think it’s great that Monkey Island is back. It is one of my favourite games of all times. I love adventure games, They were gone for a little while; replaced by action games like shooters (i.e: Counter Strike) or sports games (i.e: Need for Speed). I hope this will help moving the direction of game companies towards developing Adventure-like games.
Links:
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/
World of Goo is an addictive, state-of-the-art, smooth and pleasant to the eye game. Plus, it is available for Linux natively!!! Plus it is only U$D20.-
Check it out here:
I hope companies start believing there is a “Linux game market” out there waiting and wanting games to run natively.
Excelent tutorial for Apache Cassandra by Ronald Mathies of Sodeso.
A bit sarcastic yet almost-always-true article written by James Gosling in 1990 (20 years ago), about politics in the software development industry.
http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/StandardsPhases.html
Enjoy!
Just type this in your console:
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`
A post by Martin Fowler that talks about a very common and used way of defining the domain layer and service layer in an application.
The problem was that this on-board sound card is surround and, when in surround mode, the mic mini-plug input becomes Center /LFE output.
I fixed it this way:
1) Open “alsamixer”
2) Go to “Mic-In Mode” bar
3) Check that in “Item” (top-left corner), it reads “Mic-In Mode [Mic-In]”
4) If not (probably “Mic-In Mode [Center/LFE Output]“) hit up/down arrow keys until “Mic-In Mode [Mic-In]” is selected.
5) Check that mic is not muted. Go to “Mic” bar and check that it is not muted “Mic [Off]“. If it is, hit M key, you’ll get “Mic” only.
That should be it.
This extension provides of a really simple an elegant way of translating web pages to your language. It uses translate.google.com services to translate, and the way it does it is simply excellent!. Just keep Ctrl key pressed while selecting the text you want to translate and it will display the translation in a bubble in-line.
Also it provides a menu to select the translation of the entire web-page or to open a form (like the one in translate.google.com) for real-time translation.
Highly reccomendable.
You can found the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jlhlebbhengjlhmcjebbkambaekglhkf
And Google Chrome, here: http://www.google.com/chrome/
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