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Comment In: Playing with money = playing with emotions [Blog - 05/14/2013 - 02:51]

I think the issue is ...

I think the issue is that it 's a deliberate tactic to ensure that there is no simple conversion from money to in-game items so that people have a harder time viewing the in-game purchases as costing real money. r n r nFor many of these transactions, there 's no ...

Comment In: Why Are You Making Games? [Blog - 04/25/2013 - 09:15]

Well, since this seems to ...

Well, since this seems to be the place for answering the question: Because I want to play my game. It doesn 't exist yet, so I guess that means I have to make it myself.

Comment In: Unity is a CTO [Blog - 04/26/2013 - 04:09]

When I read about Unity ...

When I read about Unity being a CTO, I thought I was going to read an article about how Unity the platform was a ZOMG SILVER BULLET 1 one , which I was prepared to vehemently disagree with. r n r nBut the idea that Unity the company is acting ...

Comment In: Unity drops Flash support, says Adobe is not firmly committed [News - 04/24/2013 - 05:42]

I suppose you could stick ...

I suppose you could stick with the devil you know, but it 's not like designing a system to run code safely and securely is a new problem. r n r nHTML5 is a standard, not a proprietary system that Adobe or Sun can just dick around with any way ...

Comment In: Apple to pay back parents in free-to-play games settlement [News - 02/27/2013 - 07:27]

I think the problem described ...

I think the problem described in this article is not, Oh, what are you playing God of War-And-Gambling-With-Real-Money That 's fine, honey, here 's my password. OMG APPLE IS TO BLAME r n r nThe problem is that even if a parent took the time to review what their kid ...

Comment In: The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8's Closed Distribution Means for Developers [Feature - 10/16/2012 - 04:05]

Is anyone else happy that ...

Is anyone else happy that this may finally mean the rise of Linux as a mainstream computing platform I 've tried really hard to get into Linux, and honestly it was the poor graphics driver support and the difficulty getting games running that kept me from adopting it full-time. If ...

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