The Acagamic

news and miscellaneous

Over at the “Running on Empty” blog, there is currently a nice series on game engine development with XNA in the making. It looks nice to actually watch someone doing such a major task and blogging about it. Also, for all students interested in programming their own, this is a good place to watch.
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Game Developer Magazine published a story in the March 2008 issue ranking the top 50 game development studios worldwide according to empirical data that they have gathered. They are using sales data as well as qualitative evaluations by developers working at the studios for their research. Detailed reports include releases per platform and review score [...]

Note to self: Should really update this blog more often. Nevertheless, the reason for my prolonged absence is usually rooted in workload excess. So, in this case, I would like to show you a video of our Dreamhack experiment, which can be seen as sort of a predecessor on what I will be experimenting with [...]

Sweden is associated with many things: cheap but comfortable furniture, very attractive females, the Nobel prize, Battlefield, file-sharing, cold winters, strict alcohol policies, snus, meatballs, the list is long. Two brothers from Göteborg have now created one of the hottest ajax webapps for the season: Wishlistr. It is basically a tool allowing you to create [...]