Really cool statistics

Posted by foslock on Oct. 28, 2006, 9:24 p.m.

I get Time magazine at my dads house and it always has really little tid-bits or facts about the world. The current issue gives us a load of numbers about the average person in the US.

Item - Number sold per day

Porsche 911's - 34

iPods - 88,163

Barbie …

Blog Entry Badges?

Posted by foslock on Oct. 23, 2006, 7:41 p.m.

I was just browsing the badge archive and I was wondering what happened to the blog entry badges:

- 250

- 150

- 100

- 50

- 15

- 5

Sorry if I wasn't supposed to be browsing around back there… but I couldn't help but wonder.

Other Stuff: …

GML Question, realted to ds_grids

Posted by foslock on Oct. 20, 2006, 4:21 p.m.

Hey, I have a question for the 64d crowd. I consider myself an experienced GMer but I have failed to learn about data structures. So I decided that I would teach myself. I'm starting with grids, and I am making a game like bejeweled. So far so good, I've gotten …

New iPod, 80 GB

Posted by foslock on Oct. 18, 2006, 8:29 p.m.

I just got a new GB iPod for my 16th birthday (yay me) and it's pretty awesome! It can hold around 20,000 songs and the battery life is the best out of all the ipods.

What I was worried about was the size but since I have an old B&W …

Study Halls

Posted by foslock on Oct. 13, 2006, 1:41 p.m.

I am a sophomore at a lone school in Burlington, VT. The administration had the smart idea of giving free blocks to sophomores last year. At the end of the day, if they had a free block (last 3/2 of the day) then they would just leave. Obviously, this is …

64digits doesn't exist?

Posted by foslock on Oct. 11, 2006, 8:43 p.m.

Pic here, taking up too much space

Portal has been released as a WIP, please DL and review!

Hehe, you should figure out how I did that just by looking at the address bar :)

I am still working on Portal and it's coming along, but it is really really …

Portals, Surfaces, and sheer Luck

Posted by foslock on Oct. 10, 2006, 5:09 p.m.

So, I am experimenting with surfaces a lot more often than usual and after seeing Valve's Portal, I was extremely tempted to duplicate it in GM. Too bad it can't be 3D, but 2D is good enough, it'd still be an awesome game. So I created a little start of …

It's coming, IT'S COMING!

Posted by foslock on Sept. 20, 2006, 8:54 p.m.

It's coming November 19th for $250. It will be a day of judgement, 2 days after the PS3 comes out. Once the PS3's are off the shelf, people will start buying Wii's, clever marketing on nintendos part I think. But thats off the point.

I can understand how people could …

God saw that the light was good

Posted by foslock on Sept. 2, 2006, 9:36 a.m.

and He separated the light from the darkness.

That is exactly what my new engine tries to accomplish. It isn't as good as geargod's or phienoxes (sp?) but if you want an easy implimented lighting engine in your game, come to me. I will put it in for you. Just …

My Brother, is a Robot

Posted by foslock on Aug. 26, 2006, 10:30 a.m.

Ok, this blog may scare you, or even make your eyes water with glistening tears. But what's done is done. My brother… is a robot. His voice has gone all metallic and he has turned a shade of shimmering sliver.

From the day he was born, he has shown robotic …