Comic book characters have made an indelible mark on me. The legacy of comics permeate our culture and populate some of my earliest memories. Episodes of Adam West’s Batman on a wood cabinet CRT television in my grandparents living room. An Incredible...
It’s hard to say much more about Super Mario Odyssey than has already been said. A game of it's cultural significance comes seldom and ink is liberally spilled. In that light I’ll keep it short and focus on extra perspective I can bring to the table...
I've been playing BoxBoy! (3DS, 2015) in little hunks for the last month. It's a $5 digital only title develped by HAL Labratory of Super Smash Brothers fame. The game showed up on my radar when it's sequel "Bye Bye BoxBoy" was announced earlier this...
In for a treat this time. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii, 2010)
I played the original at launch 10 years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but then went to college and missed this release completely. It’s hard to articulate but this sequel felt so very right...
This time for the videogame backlog we have a new release! Splatoon 2 (Switch, 2017)
15 hours of gameplay, roughly split between campaign and multiplayer. Campaign has neat ideas & challenges but attempts at variety make pacing poor. Zip through...
Ok, this ones a little embarrassing but here it goes. Pokémon X (3DS, 2013)
The good: stunning environments. Both artwork and engine give a sense of place and scale impressive for a handheld. The bad: everything else. Despite having the exact same...
The first post in my videogame backlog series. I'll post here when I beat a game I've been meaning to get to. All screenshots are my own. Today is "The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds" for the Nintendo 3DS, relased in 2013.
There are other...
Starting tomorrow, and for the next week, I live out of this motorcycle. It contains everything I need. Food. Shelter. Clothing. It wasn't really meant for a journey such as this, but I am confident that it will rise to the task.
I'll be using the...
Yesterday, I made a post enouraging people to consider going to WWDC, along with some tips on ways that you could save money doing so. I received lots of positive feedback, and I heard from a few that they were going to register because of it. That...
If you're a developer for Apple platforms, you've undoubtedly seen some of the discussion over the last few days about the cost of WWDC. With each year popularity of the conference increases and so too does demand for tickets. Apple announces the conference...
Just over a year ago, I started hacking in my spare time on a little game. Nights and weekends when I got a wild hair, I'd sit in front of a glowing screen until the sun came up. I wrote a lot of code. I threw a lot of code away. I learned a lot about...
Yesterday I made a screen recording for a friend, explaining how to do a few technical tasks. I was listening to Recess, Skrillex's latest album, while I worked. Occasionally I had to download a large file, or compile some source code, and I would...
As promised, this is the follow-up to talk about the Robotics competition I attended. If you missed last weeks post it explains the problem, which helps a bit, and is much more upbeat. I suggest reading it first. I wish I had a good story to tell you...
I'm in my Senior year at Graceland University, and this year I'm president of our ACM chapter. Each year we travel to several different conferences, and for the last several years we have been traveling to the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium...