Herman Tulleken's Blog
I worked as a game programmer for several years, before starting my own businesses. My current venture is Plinq, where we use games to help other businesses market products and educate their staff and customers. I occasionally write technical articles; mostly on game development. Here is a list: http://code-spot.co.za/writing/.
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This is a list of 50 mistakes businesses make when commissioning or building an advergame.
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on Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:42:00 EDT
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Highlights from the history of advergames.
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on Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:49:00 EST
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In this article I share my thoughts on how to think about bugs, how to get rid of them, and how to get better at it.
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on Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:29:00 EDT
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This article contains some ideas for building mazes by making various modifications to a simple, standard maze-generation algorithm.
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on Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:25:00 EDT
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This article describes many strategies for working with Unity to make your projects simpler to understand, harder to break, and quicker to ship.
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on Wed, 29 Jul 2015 01:12:00 EDT
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In this article we look at color in games: its function, how technology has improved color display, and how our biology affect the perception of color.
Herman Tulleken's Comments
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Yes indeed. I guess the ...
Yes indeed. I guess the bigger message is advergames should work as games first before they can work as business tools.
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Yes, it 's a good ...
Yes, it 's a good idea to do limit the number of iterations my own implementation does not in fact use recursion . The asserts are still helpful though to determine why there is a problem, but it 's true it can save a few Unity-restarts. As James says, Unity ...
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A scratchpad test as I ...
A scratchpad test as I use the term is a quick, disposable test to see how something works. I use this type of test most often to test how library functions behave or to figure out my understanding of some small issue how should a matrix look that performs a ...
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