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Google Mini Update: The mini just works! Leave it to Google to make something so complex, easy and do exactly what you expect it to. As I mentioned in my last post we are totally redesigning t...

Author Rick Overman Date 04/22/2005 (11:22 am) Comment 14 comments

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Well the cat's out of the bag now... Yes, our very own http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/ search appliance showed up today. Next to fresh beer in the fridge, I have ne...

Author Rick Overman Date 04/14/2005 (3:36 pm) Comment 24 comments

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Gears have changed a bit and working on a couple totally new projects but still keeping the previous fun projects on back the burner for later. Here are a few of the recent changes on the GarageGame...

Author Rick Overman Date 02/09/2005 (11:52 am) Comment 16 comments

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Where is Rick? A new task popped on my stack Friday November 26th, his name is Garrett Overman. This task was scheduled to start on December 19th but you know how unpredictable development s...

Author Rick Overman Date 12/08/2004 (2:37 pm) Comment 30 comments

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GarageGames is bursting from its container. Over 5 years ago we sat down and dreamed about what this community might look like what we would take to support it. I am happy to announce we have succee...

Author Rick Overman Date 11/18/2004 (7:51 am) Comment 5 comments

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Quick blog update... just switched all our product downloads over to http rather than ftp. Should reduce the number of people having problems due to overly agressive firewalls and proxies. If you ha...

Author Rick Overman Date 10/05/2004 (3:09 pm) Comment 2 comments

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Guess what just just made its way to the top of my stack after a painfully long wait? Fulltext body and title searching in the forums. Now please be gentle on my server, these searches can sti...

Author Rick Overman Date 06/16/2004 (2:38 pm) Comment 30 comments

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We have been having a fun conversation about a [url=/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=11310]wiki for GarageGames[/url] over on the forums and I thought I should repost a few highlights here. We are f...

Author Rick Overman Date 03/12/2004 (1:18 pm) Comment 9 comments

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Talk is cheap, so I finally took the plunge a couple weeks ago and nuked my new Windows-XP eMachine and installed [url=www.gentoo.org]Gentoo[/url] on it (my favorite Linux distro ). When installing G...

Author Rick Overman Date 03/02/2004 (11:12 am) Comment 7 comments

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Documentation, documentation and more documentation that is the focus. As you know we have been working hard here at GarageGames to make our engine more accessible and a big part of that is documenta...

Author Rick Overman Date 12/16/2003 (4:52 pm) Comment 9 comments

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We got http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/11/060200&mode=thread&tid=127&tid=186&tid=206this morning and I didn't even realize it until Jeff mentioned something to m...

Author Rick Overman Date 12/11/2003 (1:27 pm) Comment 8 comments

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It has been a busy week on the IT front. You all should be noticing that the site is much more responsive today. Yesterday (November 13th, 2003) we deployed a new dedicated database server for the ...

Author Rick Overman Date 11/14/2003 (11:42 am) Comment 11 comments

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Forum Subscription Feature Launched It is finally here! Now you can subscribe to just the forums you are interested in reading and not get all the clutter from adjacent forums. Your default forum...

Author Rick Overman Date 10/01/2003 (11:26 am) Comment 7 comments

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We have made our first public release of the new Torque Game Engine feature walk through demo. Mac and PC builds are available for [url=/pg/demo.php?id=1]download here[/url]. A Linux build will be av...

Author Rick Overman Date 09/23/2003 (3:57 pm) Comment 3 comments

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A quick .plan from the road. My wife and I have been in SanFrancisco this week visiting family and showing off Zachary. In the after hours I have been working on the website, mostly doing some much ...

Author Rick Overman Date 06/13/2003 (9:11 am) Comment 11 comments

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Thought it was about time I update my plan. Tim and I are working hard on the upcoming Torque Feature demo. It started small and has grown in size as we have began to realize it's potential. It is a...

Author Rick Overman Date 05/30/2003 (4:41 pm) Comment 11 comments

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It's a Boy! Zachary Vaughn Overman Born: March 20th, 2003 at 6:53pm Sacred Heart Medical Center, Eugene Oregon Wei...

Author Rick Overman Date 03/30/2003 (9:13 am) Comment 19 comments

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The [url=/docs/torque.sdk/engine/index.php]Torque doxygen docs[/url] have been updated to cvs label 1.1.2 as well as a major look and feel upgrade. I recently downloaded the doxygen source code a...

Author Rick Overman Date 03/14/2003 (11:43 am) Comment 6 comments

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So after having much of the new servers up and configured I was persuaded to switch them to the [url=www.gentoo.org]Gentoo Linux[/url] distribution from RedHat. I am now a total Gentoo convert. [q...

Author Rick Overman Date 02/26/2003 (10:17 am) Comment 13 comments

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Well, it has been an exciting new year at GarageGames -- after three years of planning and hard work we finally have a complete solution for independent developers: education, community, engine/tools ...

Author Rick Overman Date 02/11/2003 (8:22 am) Comment 18 comments