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15 Jul 10

Interviewed for Gamasutra

Gamasutra put up a nice article this morning, about doing what it takes to make games in the industry. I’m featured on page 3 of the article. I think it’s really interesting, reading about just what people have done to make games; all the effort they go through, the sacrifices they make.. A nice read [...]

0 Comments Posted in Game Design, Personal by Andy Moore
13 Jul 10

Road-trip: Complete!

Well, my girlfriend and I have completed our Cross-Canada 2-month-long roadtrip. We’re back in Victoria safe and sound! Our road-trip blog is still a bit behind, but we’re working on updating it as soon as we get some of these backlogged photos and videos done up. It was a really fun experience. I got to [...]

2 Comments Posted in Personal, Travel by Andy Moore
25 Apr 10

Cross-Country Travel Plans: ENGAGE

Thanks to the success of SteamBirds and the aligning of some special stars in the midnight sky, an opportunity to take a three month long, cross-Canada road-trip has surfaced! And by gum, I’m taking it. Normally I’d post all about it, right here on this blog – but it’s a joint effort between myself and [...]

2 Comments Posted in Travel by Andy Moore
22 Mar 10

Gaming World: It is my first anniversary

Ahh, finally back from the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. About halfway through the conference I stumbled upon the realization that it is my “Gaming Birthday;” right about this time in 2009 I wrote an article about how GDC Inspired me to make my first game. I’ve done a fairly in-depth post-mortem of 2009, [...]

0 Comments Posted in GDC, Photography by Andy Moore
28 Feb 10

Shots from Across the Street

There’s an awesome park across the street from my place; nice little hill covered with plants and trees. I often take my camera out there but haven’t uploaded any photos from my excursions yet. This here is one of my favorite trees on the place. It’s sitting right near the top and stands fairly alone, [...]

0 Comments Posted in Photography by Andy Moore
8 Feb 10

Blog Relocation: Complete

Finally! Got my blog moved over to my own domain. My old blogger account can now die. Farewell, Aught Nine; it was nice while it lasted, but it could only last a year. I’ll be working on making this site themed up nicely and have some links to my games. For now, why don’t you [...]

0 Comments Posted in Personal, SteamBirds by Andy Moore
30 Dec 09

The End of Aught Nine

Well, the year has come to a close. I started this blog knowing it would only last a year — but don’t worry! I’ll be firing up a proper blog on my own website (andymoore.ca) soon. I’ll make another post here to announce it, and I’ll see about exporting these posts there. Protonaut is an [...]

3 Comments Posted in GDC, Game Design, Personal by Andy Moore
8 Sep 09

PAX: Meh

I attended PAX (The Penny Arcade Gaming Exhibition, aka PAGE; or at least it should be) this last weekend for the first time. People seemed to get so excited about it that I had quite high hopes. And I was pretty let down. I caught the Nerd-Cold that was being passed around PAX so I’m [...]

1 Comment Posted in Travel by Andy Moore
19 May 09

The Platformer

OK, here’s something I really hate. Coding how a player moves. It turns out there’s a lot of intricate guesswork going on behind the scenes of most platformers. For instance, did you know that many platformers change the amount of friction exerted on the player body depending on the current action? Or that bodies accelerate [...]

0 Comments Posted in Box2D, Photography, Protonaut by Andy Moore
10 May 09

Progress?

I’ve made some definite progress since May 1st! I watched the entirety of Jeeves & Wooster for the first time. What a great show. (Now working on the entirety of Black Adder for the first time) Playing some OldSchool Civilization 4 with Aubrey during the evenings. Excellent fun. Now that I’m coding pretty much full [...]

3 Comments Posted in Game Design, Personal by Andy Moore

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