I’ve uploaded a couple of videos on AMBER in action up to YouTube. I’m starting to get back into the development and I wanted people to be able to see the stuff I’ve done so far in action.
The first ( Missile Demo ) is the old version of the game showing the homing effect on the LRM and SRM missiles.
The second ( Movement Phase Demo ) is a demo of the interaction during the movement phase.
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After many hours of frustration on the phone to MS over the dreaded DRM gotcha, the powers that be have released a simple DRM licence transfer tool.
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I have uploaded a new version of CBFG. Nothing major to get excited about. I’ve added smaller image sizes after a request from a visitor. In the process of making the changes, I discovered a small bug in the scroll bar code, so that’s been fixed too.
Enjoy!
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The forums are back, I’m running phpBB3 this time. We’ll see if that keeps the garbage down.
The site has had quite alot of interest since the transfer of GPWiki’s content to GameDev.net, CBFG seems to be quite popular and will be getting a minor update soon.
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I’ve pulled the forums from the site. There was very little activity anyway, and it was turning into an arms race between me and the spammers. Every tweak and mod I made soon got worked around, I was getting 20 fake registrations a day and increasingly nasty porn posts. So rather than spend time every day cleaning them, I’ve just taken them down.
It’s a shame that greedy, parasitic idiots are turning the web into a hostile environment.
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Now that normal(-ish) service has bee resumed on XBL, I finally got round to recovering my Gamertag yesterday. It took 45mins!
I deleted all my XBLA games and my profile, recovered the GT, then re-downloaded the games. Guess what?
It’s still broken!!
So after three attempts at recovering and months of getting messed around by MS, I still have no offline access to paid for content.
I don’t know if I can face talking to the idiots on the ‘helpdesk’ again.
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After weeks of poor XBL performance, Microsoft has finally admitted that there is a problem with the service, blamed it on a DoS attack on the Passport.net network and offered a free copy of UnderTow to say sorry.
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XBox Live is broken, has been since Xmas. Apparently all those new 360s that Santa left have swamped the network and as a result, everyone gets to stare at the spining dots for 15 minutes at logon. Call of Duty 4 (which is looking like a great game) constantly drops connection, and Gears of War thinks that I’m the only person on the planet.
I’m not even going to bother trying to recover my Gamertag with the network like this.
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After quite a few years off, I’ve finally decided to finish my Degree. I’ve signed up with the Open University to do 3 years of distance study. Adding that to my previous HND in Software delevopment will give me a BA(Open). I’d prefer to do a named degree, but unfortunately, my previous work doesn’t fit with the OUs syllabus.
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A few broken DRM gotchas I discovered today…
Crackdown will not work offline. I PAID for the additional content on my new Xbox, but the patch when the content first came out was downloaded to my old box. Therefore, I can’t play on content bought on my current machine offline.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance also fails to play offline. However, the game was bought after I received my new Xbox, so both the content patch and the paid-for DLC were both first downloaded on my current box.
Forza 2 will not play using my saved game if the update has lapsed from the cache. There was a fix to stop money glitching in the Nov update to the game, if you have a saved game after that date, you NEED the patch to play. (I only discovered this when I was offline and couldn’t get the patch.)
I have spent 3 weeks away from home, staying in hotels in the last two months. I take the Xbox along to save me from spending every night in the bar. However, I can’t use half the games and content that I have paid for!
I’m off again next week. Maybe I should just go drink myself stupid (not difficult!) and send the bill to MS.
Here’s more of my helpdesk wranglings with Microsoft…
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