Just a quick notice. I tweaked the map page a bit and added the Server Statistics graph.

> As far as monetizing combined works. Well, how do programs that are used for commercial works manage this sort of thing?

Software license is a mess. Most of the times, you “embed” commercial libraries (read: engines, components, frameworks, etc.) into your finished product, but the terms and conditions for each library vary a lot. Some…[Read more]

Whoa, whoa. I didn’t realize you’ve made so many episodes, Pd! And they’re very good! I kinda knew you’ve started a new series, but I simply forgot about it for a while and was still subscribed to your old channel. I’ll keep check it out from now. Again, thanks for the good show. Simply put, Minecraft Awesome Is Awesome … Is Awesome.

Yesterday at the Minecraft server…

To kshade: I was thinking of something like the Heavy Rain episode. Of course it wasn’t identical to anyone else’s gameplay, but I could say it’s similar enough to the point that it invalidates my need of buying the game, because I don’t think I could have a better experience playing the game by myself rather than watching the show. Yeah, people…[Read more]

I think the fundamental problem here is that there’s no easy way to handle a combined work in the current copyright laws. LPs are very complex work. It is a combination of a video game and a player, and a video game itself is a combination of a program, music and graphics, etc. Furthermore, a program itself is often a combination of many smaller…[Read more]

Calm down, bro. This is typical Internet hysteria that we all know too well, and you shouldn’t just pick up the most ugly part of the Internet (arbitrary) and exaggerate it as if it is a problem of the entire Net. This kind of attitude is worsening the issue because it induces emotional responses from both sides. You don’t know how those news…[Read more]

It may sound strange, but Nintendo is already a software company in a sense. In NES/SNES era, Nintendo was a primarily hardware company because making hardware was much more expensive than software, and Nintendo was pretty much the only console at that time (at least in Japan). Today, however, hardware is very cheap and making software is far more…[Read more]

Here’s an unpopular prediction because no one seems to put this out. Wii U will be Nintendo’s the last home console and probably not as successful as Wii. Here I use the Japanese market as a future predictor, and the plunge of home consoles sales are unstoppable. Right now, the only way for home consoles to sell is by segmenting its market (i.e.…[Read more]

Dinosaurs are pretty popular in Japan too (especially among kids). You just have to search with the right keyword, as Google does not automatically translate every query.
cf. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%E6%81%90%E7%AB%9C&cmpt=q

Also, archeology here is kinda big too, as we have hundreds of ruins and fossil sites.
cf.…[Read more]

愛 どん戸 ふぃーる うぇる科むど とぅ 理ぷらい でぃす すれっ度。

Meanwhile in Japan, Animal Crossing is one of the most popular games among kids. In the last Christmas season the stock was running so low that Nintendo officially apologized for the shortage, and the media is touting how it is great for teaching kids being “social”. But this is not surprising when you see a constant ad of the game running in TVs…[Read more]

Phew, I did it! No matter how crappy it looks like, I finished a game in 48 hours. You can play my submission in

http://ld48.tabesugi.net/ld26/ (Source code: https://github.com/euske/ld26 )

You can view other submissions (games) at: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview

Thanks a lot to those who stopped by my stream! I…[Read more]

So, the first 24 hours has passed. I’m still working on the basic game mechanics, but not sure if it’s going to be a fun game to play. The good thing is that I am somehow having a fun time. Let’s see what I can squeeze out in the next 24 hours…

My progress report is posted here:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/euske/

Yes, we’ve been aware of this problem and are currently trying to fix it. Please hold onto it for a while. Sorry for inconvenience.

Haha, this is ridiculous. I could got a Monday-only pass 10 minutes after I was in the queue. Did people give up it already? Anyway, I was shaking my head and laughing at the same time. I’m still thinking if I […]

Here’s a Humble Bundle Mojam 2 gift code I happened to buy and almost have forgotten:

https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=zMVMkaXxpuu8

If it’s already taken, I’m sorry.

Ashcraft, as we talked on the server, I added The Shire as a portalless community on the map.

(For the record: Because the two locations are close to each other, I asked him to pick one location instead of two. […]