I got back from Casual Connect conference in Amsterdam on saturday last week (and proceeded to become ill for a week, but thats another story). I wanted to write up a quick peice on the conference,...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 02/16/2007 (7:25 am) Comment 16 comments

Well, its almost time to wrap up and get myself over to Amsterdam. Next week's casual connect conference west (the long way of saying "casuality europe" which I much preferred) should be really useful...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/31/2007 (2:07 pm) Comment 7 comments

Republished from http://www.zoombapup.com (with permission). ---------- and I quote --------- Oooh, I was kind of at a dead end for most of the day, then after sifting th...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/12/2007 (4:23 pm) Comment 6 comments

Actually, it might be called Casual Connect now... erk.. http://amsterdam.casualconnect.org/index.html Anyway, I'm hoping to get time off (for good behavior?) to get my sorry self to...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/02/2007 (9:41 am) Comment 8 comments

I've got a 360 now and I've been playing a bunch of games this christmas. Thought I'd share my thoughts here. Dead Rising While its fun bashing zombies with all sorts of stuff, it can get...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/29/2006 (2:34 am) Comment 38 comments

Ok, tis the season to by jolly or some other crap.. So I thought I'd throw this out there to all you GG'ers. A looong time ago now, when this site first started up, a guy called Scott Miller was...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/22/2006 (12:19 pm) Comment 11 comments

I just read eric's blog (just below this one in the list I guess) about multi-core processors. I completely concur with his appraisal of the issues, however I do feel that multi-core is something usef...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/20/2006 (6:54 am) Comment 9 comments

You know, it's really easy to beat yourself up over every little thing when you're an indie developer. How many of us have fretted over not choosing the right games, or not having something thats sale...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/16/2006 (1:56 pm) Comment 15 comments

Hey... What can I say, its nice to have a home again! I really should have taken some pictures in order to flesh out this blog a bit :) Anyway, I don't know if you all saw it recently, but there...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 11/25/2006 (4:58 am) Comment 5 comments

Well, this last few months have been a complete nightmare. Which is why I havent really been posting so much. Mainly I've been either working or having to sort out legal issues on buying a house. B...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 09/24/2006 (2:37 pm) Comment 10 comments

Lack of time Its always a bit difficult getting time to develop when you are a part-time indie. But when you are a part-time indie AND do contracting work, it can get even more hectic. Gi...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 09/02/2006 (7:55 am) Comment 4 comments

One of the fun things being a lecturer at a university, is that you get to have the whole summer off. Think of it, almost 3 months off! Only, it never seems to quite work out that way. This summ...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 08/16/2006 (9:30 am) Comment 11 comments

[center][/center] I guess I never realized how much of a product of our childhood we are until today. I looking for a domain name for us...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/26/2006 (9:58 am) Comment 10 comments

[begin shameless plug mode] Just wanted to let everyone know that the second part of our "Birth of a flight sim" series of articles has just gone live on SimHQ [url=http://development.simhq.com/_ai...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/12/2006 (1:35 pm) Comment 12 comments

I was driving around the other day and came up with what I think is a lovely idea for a casual game. My usual idea would be to knock up a quick prototype and see if the mechanic works. But this is ...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/09/2006 (7:10 am) Comment 28 comments

Ok, I've been thinking about this for some time now. (Pretty much since I started heading out to IGC in the US every October). I've got a very light teaching load this year (i.e. almost none) and t...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/04/2006 (1:13 pm) Comment 24 comments

So Thomas is off with his family having a good time in florida, watching space shuttles take off and all. So while he's away, I thought I'd spend a sunday doing some work on my tennis game (while w...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 06/25/2006 (1:07 pm) Comment 3 comments

Well, probably half the world is going insane right now watching the football. Frankly I find the cynical use of it as a marketing opportunity kind of offensive. Its like christmas in that its bec...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 06/11/2006 (1:25 pm) Comment 14 comments

I know I've talked about these guys before, but I figure it is my duty to pass on things of great value to others when I can. The guys at http://www.texturemonk.com have alwa...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 06/04/2006 (12:59 pm) Comment 26 comments

A Bit of self pimpage going on, put our first article up on SimHQ, you can read it http://www.simhq.com/_air6/air_221a.html This is the first in a little mini series about the ongoi...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 05/23/2006 (1:46 pm) Comment 14 comments