Google’s been taking some flak lately (Yahoo, Slashdot) for agreeing to censor their search results for users inside China. (In an earlier post, I briefly mentioned Google’s “don’t be evil” policy.) Quite a few people have been talking about this and the contradiction between “don’t be evil” and their Chinese censorship. I’m [...]

One of the problems right now is the fact that the combat sounds sometimes startle me – because they’re hard to anticipate. The way EOS works is that players give orders to their units, the server moves everyone at the same time, and then the players are sent copies of what happened last turn [...]

I’ve been working on animation and AI (artificial intelligence) lately.
I would’ve uploaded a video, but my image editing software seems to have a problem saving animation files at anything but 5 frames per second — which makes the video playback painfully slow (because it was recorded at 30 fps).

AI work is interesting. I set [...]