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Snow Dragon: Part 2. Now with more baby!

Part one is here. //

Snow Dragon

See part two here! Here’s what I did with my afternoon. //

Plant Wars: Development Postmortem

I was recently asked to write a postmortem (it’s sort of a “lessons learned” from the development process) for Plant Wars for Building Browsergames, and I just finished, so I thought I would share it here in its entirety: This is Jon from Plant Wars, which is yet another PBBG (what else would I be [...]

Girl throws rock, busts guy’s head open [bloody, probably nsfw]

This is an old video of mine, and it’s off topic for this blog, but I thought I’d go ahead and share it. We were hitting golf balls in the woods behind my parents’ house, when Rock (yes, that’s his real name) started teasing Eva. She retaliated by throwing rocks at him. The last one [...]

Plant Wars: The Facebook Rip Off (Also: Hobowars vs Buskerwars)

So a few months ago, this guy named Oli joined Plant Wars. I noticed that he had a Buskerwars e-mail address, so I asked him if he was a developer on that project. He said he was, and we had a friendly chat about game development. Busker, by the way, is a British word for [...]

MySQL Date Functions and Determining if a User is Active

I learn something every time I look at the MySQL Reference Manual: Date and Time Functions.  I should really look at it more often. Too often – always – I do not have enough time to spend time adding new features to Plant Wars.  Between having a full time day job and a baby at [...]