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fun with donuts

some experiments with OpenGL ES and Objective C on the iPhone. and more words to meet the minimum character requirement.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 11/17/2009 (8:49 am) Comment 1 comments

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Author Orion Elenzil Date 09/30/2009 (1:11 am) Comment 10 comments

first iPhone app finally published !

ten days later, apple has finally approved "spinnerjoy", a very simple graphical toy and my first published iPhone app!

Author Orion Elenzil Date 09/26/2009 (3:39 am) Comment 8 comments

first iPhone app

i got my first app running on an iPhone. and here are some characters to get up to the 100-character minimum.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 09/08/2009 (4:07 am) Comment 7 comments

vSide - 1000+ simultaneous users!

with our latest release yesterday, vSide just this moment finally broke 1000 simultaneous users in-world!

Author Orion Elenzil Date 06/18/2009 (8:05 pm) Comment 12 comments

vSide beta 10 released

It was a long time coming, but vSide's tenth release is finally out the door! vSide is an massively multiplayer social online world for teenagers.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 05/28/2009 (8:17 pm) Comment 8 comments

the lost and the damned - moved

on the ethics of producing games like the lost and the damned.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 05/04/2009 (5:34 pm) Comment 8 comments

fun with O3D

porting a simple graphical toy from flash 10 to O3D.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 04/23/2009 (9:33 pm) Comment 5 comments

rant: 3D web interfaces

PaperVision3D is one of the premium 3D-in-the-browser technologies going, and it's a great technology, but a huge segment of the designers using it need to wake up and smell their purpose in life.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 03/26/2009 (10:07 pm) Comment 9 comments

some notes on the robustness of dedicated TGE servers

i was just looking through some server logs and found some numbers which i thought might some folks might find interesting.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 03/09/2009 (5:54 pm) Comment 12 comments

fun with flash

i've been learning a little bit of AS3 and flash, and here's the first interesting result. and here are some words to make the summary 100 characters long.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 02/19/2009 (8:45 am) Comment 12 comments

tool: simple page to convert old links to new

http://elenzil.com/gg/redirect.html a simple page to convert old-style forum & resource links to new style.

Author Orion Elenzil Date 01/14/2009 (7:25 pm) Comment 8 comments

fun with SVG (scalable vector graphics)

i've been thinking about making a puzzle game/toy centered around shallow water physics, and i want it to be easy to play. since i don't know flash, and i do know javascript, i'm looking into impleme...

Author Orion Elenzil Date 11/20/2008 (7:12 pm) Comment 15 comments

vSide beta 6 released

http://vside.com has just released Beta 6! vSide is a Massively Multiplayer Online World for teens, centered on partying with your friends. It's based on TGE 1.3.5, although with ...

Author Orion Elenzil Date 07/31/2008 (11:19 pm) Comment 7 comments

vSide released !

We've been working hard at Doppelganger for the last few months on our biggest release ever, and it's finally live today! Hopefully there'll be a dev-snapshot soon. there's some [url=http://blog....

Author Orion Elenzil Date 08/13/2007 (11:19 pm) Comment 6 comments

Tyra Banks in The Music Lounge

hey all - this is my first blog post, and should really be a devSnapshot, but i don't have the time to make it all pretty-like. http://themusiclounge.com is a TGE-based ...

Author Orion Elenzil Date 02/20/2007 (11:11 pm) Comment 15 comments