I pride myself on being an informed consumer, to the point of obsession and beyond. It came time to buy a new pair of glasses, and I realized that I know nothing about them. I’ve had these things on my face every minute of every day for most of my life, and yet I had no clue what I was doing. After asking around a bit, I realize that essentially all of my friends and acquaintances were exactly the same way. Those are nearly all computer people, and depend on their glasses for daily life. How much money did you lay out for your glasses? I’m betting it wasn’t trivial, but do you know anything about them? Do you even know what brand you’re wearing?
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It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything, so I thought I’d drop off a quick update. I was in San Francisco last week for a very interesting and unusual conference: ESCoNS. It’s the first meeting of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapy Society. Talk about a mouthful! The attendance was mostly doctors and research lab staff, though there were people in from Activision, Valve, and a couple more industry representatives. The basic idea is that games can have a big impact on cognitive science and neuroscience, particularly as applies to therapy. This conference was meant to get together people who were interested in this work, and at over 200 people it was fairly substantial attendance for what seems like a rather niche pursuit. For comparison’s sake, GDC attendance is generally in the vicinity of 20,000 people.
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I’ve been quiet for a very long time now, and this is why. We’ve just shipped our new game, Slug Bugs!
It uses our Ghost binaural audio which I’ve teased several times in the past, and is also wicked fun to play. Please check it out! A little later in the week I’ll probably discuss the development more.
I’m a little surprised that search results don’t turn up more useful information for this. Internet Explorer 9 is frankly a fabulous browser, but many people have traditionally avoided IE because it doesn’t block ads. Well, the new version does – it’s just hidden.
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I’ve used Subversion for a long time, even CVS before that. Recently there’s a lot of momentum behind moving away from Subversion to a distributed system, like git or Mercurial. I myself wrote a series of posts on the subject, but I skipped over the reasons WHY you might want to switch away from Subversion. This post is motivated in part by Richard Fine’s post, but it’s a response to a general trend and not his entry specifically.
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