I could tell that I had some small measure of success when my 6 and 9 year old nieces became obsessed with one of my Android games: Pop Them Balloons. I realized after extensive kid gameplay testing that I needed to update a few things:
Screw cyber Monday. To hell with black Friday. My consumer dollars are spent at the thrift shops around the nation. I believe in “Secondhand Saturday.” After 20 years of thrift shopping (and 10 years of blogging about it), I have learned some things. Secret things. Universal laws that govern the ebb and flow and tides of secondhand goods.
I’m still slowly replacing all of my 3rd-party services with open-source alternatives. Lately, I’ve been using Kaiten (K-9 derivative) for email, RoundCube and Thunderbird for email, WordPress for blogging, and Evernote for notes. Until this week, Evernote had been the one glaring exception in my “host on your own server” cloud services list. That job is now being done by an open source project called OpenNote.
Saints Row (2006) is one of the reasons I still own an Xbox 360. For fans of the series, it’s the only way to experience the start of the 3rd Street Saints adventure. Does it hold up still, 7 years later?
I don’t often post up about what I’m doing in the industry. Hell these past few weeks I haven’t posted up much at all. I’m sure my readers are wondering why I haven’t posted a game review in almost as long. The answers are twofold:
That’s right, I’ve officially “made it big” as an (open source) app developer. Why? Not because I’m going on 70 (open-source) apps in the app store, nor because of the revenue they generate. Nope nope. Not because many folks take my application packages and re-package them for their own app stores. That happens to everyone. Not even because people fork and follow and maybe compile all the source code I push up on GitHub. Hell, it’s not even because I sometimes get paid quite well to contribute/create open source libraries.
Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble is an indie PC game that bills itself as a classic board game.
One of my most popular android apps “Easy Graph Paper” hasn’t had an update in a while. Earlier today I received an email with a cool feature request (background images for graphs) so I thought I’d get that happening today while I’m relaxing on my day off.
