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Words With Friends word list changes 27 Dec 2010 | 07:53 am
Words With Friends is a popular “Scrabble” style word game on the iOS. To judge if a word is playable or not it uses a modified version of the Enable1 word list. The WWF list has some deletions and so...
1995 Programming on the Sega Saturn 4 Jun 2010 | 03:36 am
This is a document I wrote in 1995, while working on Neversoft’s first game: Skeleton Warriors. It was the first game I’d worked on where I did not use 68K Assembly. The photo shows me at work around...
Customizing Home Page Bookmarks on iPhone and iPad 29 May 2010 | 03:24 pm
Sometimes you want to set a bookmark on the home page that has arbitrary text (like some search parameters) in the URL, but navigating to that URL forwards you to another URL that strips off the param...
AURemoteIOServer Error getting default device UID: ‘!obj’ 21 May 2009 | 03:15 pm
Normally when get an novel error message I just look it up on the internet, and get some clue as to the solution. But this was a first, no clue at all. Even the “AURemoteIOServer” hardly showed up ...
iPhone OpenAL Linking Problem 21 Mar 2009 | 07:23 am
If you are having linker problems like: ld warning: in /Library/Frameworks//OpenAL.framework/OpenAL, file is not of required architecture Undefined symbols: “_alSourcePlay”, referenced from: SoundEngi...
Some Uses of SQL Databases in Game Development 30 Dec 2008 | 05:30 pm
RELATIONAL DATABASES Relational Databases are sometimes viewed as being in the domain of business applications and web development. You would use a relational database for boring applications such as ...
Custom responsiveness measuring device 4 Dec 2008 | 01:56 pm
I’ve had some good feedback from my Measuring Responsiveness in Video Game article, which explains how to use a cheap camera to measure the lag between presing a button and the result appearing on scr...
My coding practices in 1991 16 Nov 2008 | 06:55 am
I wrote this in 1991, when I was writing Amiga and Atari ST games for Ocean Software in Manchester, UK. I think at the time I was working on Parasol Stars. It’s an interesting look at a simpler time i...
Debugging Memory Corruption in Game Development 10 Sep 2008 | 03:42 am
Definition: Memory corruption is an unexpected change in the contents of a memory location. The symptoms of memory corruption can range from hard crashes, all the way through minor glitches, to no sy...
CPanel Hotlink Protection Breaks WP Permalinks 19 Aug 2008 | 05:08 pm
I was messing with the hotlink protection in CPanel, and just toggled it on and off, unfortunately this broke the permalinks in wordpress. Specifically it removed the line: RewriteEngine On In .htacce...
