http://simianlogic3d.com/blog flex, game development, web tinkering, and the startup lifestyle Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:03:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My newest game launched this time last month on Shockwave. It's a sort of ballistic match-three game. A boulder sits on a central pedestal, which you can pull back and fire at other boulders on the playing field. Wherever your boulder lands, it wipes out all connected ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/07/08/boulder-blast/ Not a lot of activity in the last month, but I think July's going to be a little crazy. My latest game, Boulder Blast, launched June 10th. I did a whole post-mortem on the game, but I've had a few hurdles to jump through before it was cleared by ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/07/07/not-dead-just-been-playing-mass-effect/ As Rory Breaker, the villain of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels said, "If the milk turns sour, I ain't the kind of [cat] to drink it." I saw over on SlickDeals that WalMart has a promotion running on PS3s that gives you a $100 gift certificate along with the purchase ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/06/01/the-day-i-almost-bought-a-ps3-or-the-tale-of-an-incompetent-best-buy-manager/ In my mind, practically all the reasons you'd want to own a house instead of rent an apartment lie in the back yard: a grill, a small garden, and space for a dog to run around during the day. With it being Memorial Day weekend, I couldn't wait any ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/05/28/grill-check-electric-bicycle-maybe/ I went up to the little Interplay conference yesterday, so I thought I'd post a few notes. The Future of Social Gaming This panel had guys from Kongregate and Meebo (two companies I actually like) and guys from SGN and Xynga (companies I'm not sold on yet).  Of the last two, they ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/05/23/notes-from-interplay/ I went to the Yahoo! SearchMonkey (one word apparently) launch party/developer presentation thing tonight (a friend of mine works there and told me that there'd be free t-shirts, food, and beer involved... SOLD!). After I got back, I whipped up the little example above just to test the system ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/05/15/search-monkey-first-impressions/ I was poking around with Google's webmaster toolkit today, and I came to the somewhat shocking realization that not a single one of my blog posts is in the Google index.  Whaaaaat?  I'd assumed that WordPress in general would be fairly SEO friendly, but such is not the case.  I've ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/05/15/hello-robots-come-on-in/ I love how Flex's (talking Flex 2 here, we haven't jumped to Flex 3 yet at the day-job) LinkBar looks, but I'm not a big fan of view stacks. I wanted to use one just as you would normally use a ToggleButtonBar, but by default the LinkBar only grays ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/05/09/quick-hack-to-turn-a-link-bar-into-a-toggle-button-bar/ Another day, another kooky web idea. This time, it's the Stock Moose. We've had a lot of debate at work on how to gather data, how to present that data, and how to make that collection/presentation process engaging enough that someone might actually enjoy doing it just for ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/05/06/meet-the-stockmoose/ When I read about insoshi on Mashable and TechCrunch this morning, it got my mind buzzing... and immediately my thoughts turned to another Y Combinator startup--Heroku. I've been using Heroku for quite awhile now, and both my fondness for Ruby on Rails and my disdain (so far) for Google's ... http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2008/04/30/insoshi-meet-heroku/