Google has just launched it's new DNS servers. If you don't know what a DNS (or Domain Name System) server is, simplified, it works as follows: Computers on the internet have addresses. The internet works very, very much like a postal service. You send letters to the other computer, and they send one back. Each letter has a destination address and a return address. When you view a website, you send a nice letter to a website asking to see a certain page, and the web server posts you a letter back with that page in it (this is quite a simplified explanation, yet pretty accurate too).
I have finally decided to release Time Rift as a final version. It's had it's music converted to Ogg, and a few small changes here and there. Not too much changed from the previous version.
In this day and age, everybody wants you to use their stuff, and will advertise and cut prices as much and as low as possible to convince you to use their product. This includes Operating System makers and Browser developers. You may think it would be better if we all used the same browser and all used the same OS, but the only people who should think that are the companies who make them. You are given a choice, and this is a good thing.
I have been slowly but surely working on Time Rift, being distracted at times by my other project, Pointed Games, and now development is nearing the end. I have a new build for testing, build 13.
I haven't posted in a while, as I haven't had much to say. I have been working on two games, TimeRift and Avoid the Robots (working title), with an idea for a third. Work on Pointed has been going steady, with a login and points system set up (allowing you to login with a Google, Yahoo!, AIM or OpenID account), and much of a site created. The underlying points transfer system is the biggest hurdle to go, although I have a few ideas. The last one was too easy to hack, so I will try to make this a little more secure .
I have spent the last few days working on a new build of TimeRift. There are more new sprites, new effects and even a cutscene at the start of the game.
The much anticipated, non-random city by night, partially hand crafted theme is finally here.
I would like to think of it as a work in progress, I may change buttons, update images, rearrange things or decide I hate it and go back to a factory made theme at any time.
I could have written this post about the Game Maker 8 beta, but I have barely touched it. All I have done is tested out Time Rift, and Game Maker 8 appears to give the protagonist lead feet. It's hard to describe, so I wont bother. I could have written this post about the new Opera snapshot release, but the only real change is that the awesome skin has been ditched in favour of a blander one. I actually copied over the old skin into the new Opera so as not to lose it. I could have written about Michael Jacksons death, and about my opinion of the site that first reported it.
But I haven't, and I wont. This post is about a special kind of advertising.
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