Hey, I've started a blog. blogger is such an excellent service, I am hugely impressed. I'll be ranting about games, maybe posting code snippets, some sales figures as they arrive etc..
here it is:

Cliffskis Blog (http://www.cliffski.blogspot.com)

Your hp http://www.positech.co.uk/ lookes very nice !!!

Simple and.....neat.....

Oh, I agree that http://www.positech.co.uk/ is nice and clear.

However on this page: http://www.positech.co.uk/rocky/ , the links to the screenshots are ****ed up. Also, they open a new window -which I hate- unlike minefield's screenshots for example.

And this picture: http://www.positech.co.uk/kombatkars/images/screen1.jpg is incomplete (the thumbnail that points to it too).

Haha, found another error: http://www.positech.co.uk/bundle/index.html . The 3 thumbs of the bottom row point to the games of the top row.

how slack of me! I must fix this stuff...

I still don't get what's so great about blogs. Everyone seems to have one, yet I don't find them all that useful, cool, or different from having a webpage and posting your thoughts.

Do bloggers actually think it's a great thing, or just use them as an advertising and popularity tool?

Don't mean to disrespect anyone - just curious.

gg, am with you.. hate the little buggers....

there are very few cases where they have a use and still there are millions out there... like everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame... geesh


anyway.... down with blogs :)

blogs used to be crap obviously, but now I have one they are l33t. ;)

Actually its mainly a self promotion thing. Ill end up using mine like a design diary, its just easier to do that with blogger than coding html yourself.

I did a diary of Alien Flux's development for about 4 months on JGO just posting in the forums under one thread which worked pretty well. This time round I think I'll have a separate diary blog for the next game. I'd rather keep it on my own site though rather than a 3rd party.

Cas :)

I thought blogging was crap as well, but i've been enjoying Thomas Warfields www.asharewarelife.com, I'm glad to have another "relevent" blog to check cliffski.

Like anything, 90% of the blogs out there are crap. Glad to see yours, cliffski, as it seems it might be on the right side of that line:)

I have different journals for everything I do.. my games in development, my console games I'm currently playing, one for each of my kids, one for just general purpose Life things.

All this time I thought I was just a self-obsessed nerd who had too much free time.. but as it turns out.. I was blogging. Neat.

OTT's development journal is published as part of its registration incentives.. though I'm not sure exactly how effective it is at hooking potential customers. Mabey if I call it a 'blog' registration rates will increase ;)

Wow you sounds like a great candidate for DavidRM's The Journal (http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/) software. :)

Nice Blog :)
I have one question: how did you pass from indie developer to game programmer of commercial games?

Usually the path is the opposite...! a game programmer feel frustration about its work and quit it founding a shareware company and start developing software :)

What made you decide to go for commercial? (If I may ask of course... ops already asked! ;))

Wow you sounds like a great candidate for DavidRM's The Journal software.


It just needs a blog export option. You can save as html, but then you'd have to post it somewhere, it would be nice if the Journal did it automatically.

What about an RSS feed? Or am I the only one who doesn't see the <link/>?

I welcome blogs by shareware/game developers (goodsol, cliffski). Useful info about how their games are doing and their methods. If only they stopped posting huge pics of their cats, I would be a happy man ;)

And here's the dullest blog in the world:

http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/

Originally posted by jaggu

And here's the dullest blog in the world:

http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/

This is by far the most entertaining blog I've read. My favourite entry:

Folding a newspaper in half May 10
A newspaper was sitting on the table. I folded it in half so that it would use up slightly less space, thereby freeing up an area on the table for other items.

It reminds me of Johnathan Swift's fondness of detail in Gulliver's Travels. Compare:

I put the chair, with his lordship in it, into my coat-pocket: and, giving orders to a trusty servant, to say I was indisposed and gone to sleep, I fastened the door of my house, placed the chair on the table, according to my usual custom, and sat down by it.

My blog for today:

I noticed a redundant semicolon at the end of a line of code I had previously written. I removed the semicolon and recompiled the file.

Originally posted by jaggu
And here's the dullest blog in the world:
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/

It prefectly resumes my feelings about blogs :)