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Jeff's .plan set me off a bit just now. He's right, even using great people, great tech, great everything. It doesnt equate to a great product! One thing I've been working on recently is some re...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 03/30/2005 (11:42 am) Comment 25 comments

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Man, you know its *damn hard* trying to think of ways to challenge my students. But I think Ive cracked it with this 3D Game Programming series. Thier first assignment is to create an obstacle in t...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 02/20/2005 (2:16 pm) Comment 8 comments

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New term begins, new subjects

Author Phil Carlisle Date 02/07/2005 (8:31 am) Comment 18 comments

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Just thought I'd spread the word for my students.. Bolton Institute has finally been awarded our University title!!! we are now officially called The University of Bolton Now, this doesnt ac...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/28/2005 (3:10 am) Comment 17 comments

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The man pulls through! Well, Josh pulled through big style this week! Josh is the guy doing the script code for the AI Pack demo and he pulled through big time here this week! Long story shor...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/26/2005 (2:05 am) Comment 7 comments

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Hey Ho. I'm just sat in a class right now, waiting while my students run through a mock exam (theyre sitting the real ones next week). Looks like we might be able to ship our first game in the n...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/18/2005 (2:31 am) Comment 6 comments

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Eh! blogs? oh my.. so confusing :) http://zoombapup.blogspot.com/ My blog for now. I need to find some way to point www.zoombapup.com at it really dont I. Anyway, I'll see if I can stand to p...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/13/2005 (8:36 am) Comment 1 comments

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So the move is finally completed, all the boxes are sat on top of other boxes and the shelving units are slowly getting unpacked. To be honest, the house is probably too small, but its an interesti...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/13/2005 (12:43 am) Comment 5 comments

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well, the time has come.. I'm going to be moving house tommorow, so it basically means I'll likely be offline for a few weeks. Of course I'm still recieving mail at both my bolton account and my g...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 01/03/2005 (9:06 am) Comment 10 comments

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Well, new year is almost upon us, which leads me to reflect on the year now passing. Its been a very interesting and cathartic year for me, because Ive finally learned some truths about game develo...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/31/2004 (12:39 pm) Comment 9 comments

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Why does everything have to happen at once? and specifically when your ill?? Why? I'm so bloody busy right now. What with getting the AI pack polished off, getting the sheep game polished off,...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/16/2004 (3:25 pm) Comment 9 comments

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whootie. Ok, been a busy damn week this week. Writing exams and such at work, doing some work on the AI pack and general moving issues. Anyway, I got some work done on the flocking (its for my g...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/05/2004 (12:52 pm) Comment 19 comments

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Wheeeelll.. its been a busy as hell sorta week. Been writing exam papers for my students. This last weekend was pretty interesting. Went to a meetup in a local city setup by a company called Idigi...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/01/2004 (1:22 pm) Comment 5 comments

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I hate posting plans without screenshots. But I'm at work right now so I dont have any available. Just wanted to post a quick update on the AI Pack. I dont know if you know about it, but Josh Al...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 11/22/2004 (9:21 am) Comment 8 comments

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Ok, I'm on my way to liverpool for a conference, I thought I'd write up the .plan on the way while I remember what I was doing for the gid. For this gid, my intention was to write a breakout clone ...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 11/18/2004 (4:12 am) Comment 6 comments

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Ok.. now that Ive FINALLY managed to get the screenshots uploaded and have had time to get the text sorted out. Here it is.. [url=http://www.scaryhead.com/Journals/ShowJournalPost.aspx?PostID=9...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 11/08/2004 (2:26 pm) Comment 16 comments

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Bah, still FAR too busy :) Luckily the navgraph is regenerating right now, so Ive got a bit of time for writing up a .plan Ive got the text written for my little introspective, but still havent ...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 11/07/2004 (12:40 am) Comment 7 comments

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Man, Ive got soooo many things going on, so I thought I'd blurt them out in a .plan So, first up, obviously after IGC I'm catching up again at work. That means getting all my project tutees up and ...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 10/26/2004 (2:21 pm) Comment 6 comments

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I'm writing up my article for develop about the IGC and need your help! Anyone got the figures the guy from sprout games gave out about feeding frenzy sales? I'm trying to write this article ab...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 10/21/2004 (8:36 am) Comment 10 comments