Review: Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble!

October 11, 2013 ~3 min read

Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble is an indie PC game that bills itself as a classic board game.

Easy Graph Paper Updated - Images, Colors!

October 6, 2013 ~1 min read

Tagged: android android-app easy easy-apps easy-graph-paper graph-paper open-source

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.

(Review) Demon Sword (Nintendo Entertainment System)

October 5, 2013 ~3 min read

Tagged: game games nes thrift

When I was 9 years old it was 1990. I was renting Demon Sword for the second time. Prior to this the only games I rented more than once were Zelda 2 and Mario 2, for I had the first...

Tutorial: Crashlytics + Android Studio = Crash Reporting on Easy Mode

October 3, 2013 ~3 min read

Tagged: android android-app debugging programming tutorial

Crashlytics is a slick and remarkably easy automatic crash reporting service that integrates tightly with your existing IDE. I had a chance to beta test their newest version, and I must say it is the absolute easiest and fastest way to add crash reporting to your app. Trust me, for someone who has 70 apps in the app store speed and ease of setup become critical. A twelve minute process cut down to two doesn’t sound like much for one app. Multiply that by 70, and you’re saving literally days of work.

Review: Pitfall + Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (Genesis)

September 30, 2013 ~5 min read

Tagged: emulation game games

I did not have an Atari when I was young. My first console was the NES, so I have never played Pitfall on a console. I did play it on my friends commodore 64, a machine which holds a very special place in my heart as the first machine I ever typed a computer program into, way back in the late 1980s.

Review: Doom 3 + Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

September 29, 2013 ~7 min read

Tagged: game games steam

The year was 2005, and it was spring. I had been working at my first post-graduate programming job for about 2 years, and my PC was an aging Pentium-3 600. My graphics card, a Geforce TNT-2 that had managed to sustain me on (very) light gaming until then. It was time for an upgrade. Why? Doom 3 was coming out.

Review: Valdis Story Abyssal City

September 29, 2013 ~3 min read

Tagged: game games steam

Valdis Story Abyssal City (VSAC) is an extremely well done indie MetroidVania game set in a beautiful post-apocalyptic world. I was a Kickstarter backer of VSAC, and was immediately attracted to the combination of classic platforming, exploration, and beautiful graphics....

Review: Street Fighter X Mega Man

September 28, 2013 ~2 min read

Tagged: game games nes

Street Fighter X Mega Man (SFXMM) is a semi-official Mega Man game where you face off vs Street Fighter characters. It’s fun, free, and available for Windows PCs (possibly WINE.)

Review: Da New Guys: Day Of The Jackass

September 27, 2013 ~3 min read

Tagged: game games

Da New Guys:Day Of The Jackass (TNG:DOTJ) is an indie point and click adventure with an interesting style but some fatal flaws.

Review: Pac Man 2: The New Adventures (Genesis)

September 25, 2013 ~2 min read

Tagged: emulation game games thrift

Sometimes you’re digging through a bin at GoodWill /Macklemore Style/ and you pull out a game covered in crud for a buck. A bit of cleanup and you’ve got my latest find, Pac Man 2: The New Adventures for the...

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