“Love” indie MMO type thing

Here’s an awesome gameplay video of “Love” as narrated by its (sole) developer.
Looks like a really interesting project.

http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/gameplay_video.html

PS: You should totally check out the tools video as well. Just watching it now and it’s awesome.

Some info regarding wiiware profit model for developers.

Basically games need to sell an initial cutoff amount before nintendo will start ponying up royalties. The numbers are quite low though and once you break the figure you apparently get back paid for the past sales. /shrug.

Article at Kotaku.

Got my Xbox 360 controller for PC

I haven’t had a PC gamepad since I broke my awesome Thrustmaster Firestorm Dual Analog (it was a great controller, not like their tacky range of crap in the lower price bracket.)

Anyway it broke, I superglued it, it broke again I superglued it solid so it no longer functioned as a controller and I’ve been controllerless since.

Soo, XNA plus recent purchase of the latest Prince of Persia (for half price on steam) means it’s time to get controllered up! I just 2 days ago got an EB voucher from my sister, and thats the end of the story.
The xbox controller is an obvious choice, because it’s the most compatible with XNA (obviously) but PoP (not so obviously) specifically supports just the xbox controller, OR you have to manually hook everything up to your gamepad controls and the gamepad doesn’t properly control the menus and stuff (it’s pretty poor actually :/).
I have always been a fan of nintendo controllers, (I love the gamecube controller!). And anti playstation controller (the handles are too small!). I really didn’t like either iteration of the xbox controller (s was obviously better than the infamous giant original xbox controller). But the xbox 360 has a great controller. It’s good to see evolution working in the right direction.

That doesn’t mean I don’t totally want one of these awesome Wii classic controllers though:

One day. Or maybe one day I’ll hack or buy a converter from SNES to USB

Backing up and Dropbox.

I really need to sort out my backup scheme for files at home. I don’t want anything elaborate, basically just syncing folders between drives and between computers.

I was put on to dropbox a while ago by Jason. It’s basically something like “My Briefcase” but works, and is available on a number of platforms.
You run the client app on multiple machines. Anything in the specified folder is synced between all those computers, assuming they have internet access. It has conflict resolution and change history. You can share parts of the directory structure publicly if you want. It’s great for putting things like wip demos, small codebases/repos etc on so that you automatically have them at other locations, without fiddling with a thumb drive. The other great feature is that it has a web client that can view most content and fetch via http.

The only reason this wouldn’t be great for home backup is that it uses the internet for all traffic. It’s therefore not suitable to backup say gigabytes of photos, art or video heavy projects, music etc between machines on a LAN or between drives within a machine.

Does anyone know of a super simple free software solution? The main requirement I guess is you can tag directories and have them synced up on a LAN (and perhaps certain subdirectories remotely also for offsite backups of important but small data). The other requirement is that it behaves peer to peer and sort of opportunistically. At home we don’t leave our computers on 24/7  and there is no always on filestore pc or anything either. Extra points if it has clients for other OSes.

It wouldn’t be a big project to write something like this, therefore I can’t help but feel it must already exist
(cygwin, rsync and cron don’t count!).

Source engine pwned.

So after the 90th time of going insane from source engine games (tf2 this time) going batshit loco when you alt-tab or a chat window pops up or you have 2 monitors or ANYTHING I actually went looking for an answer, and found it.
Make a shortcut for the game.
Edit the shortcut and add the following command line switches (except your monitor res ofc):

 -window 1920 1200 -noborder

This does as you’d expect and runs the game in a borderless window. It might incur a small performance hit, but alt-tab is now instant.

Praise the gaming gods.