http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog Subcontracting ninjas since 2006 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:08:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm not sure why, but lately there's been a lot of interest in the post I wrote about line segment intersection. I get emails about it pretty regularly, and that post has the most comments of anything I've written here. Today, a comment was posted explaining that there's ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2010/02/23/line-segment-intersection-update/ Three posts in one day? What's going on here? :P A little while back, Nick Gravelyn posted about his experiments into pixel art. As it happens, that's something that I've been messing with lately myself. Meet Blobby: Yeah, I know he's rough. It's programmer art, but I'm working at it. ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/10/22/art-stuffs/ Anybody who has read this blog knows that I love 2D platformers. I'm also really into fighting games and RPGs, but nothing is better than a good platformer. Lately there's been an a steady stream of new platformers on the Xbox Indie Games service, and I thought I ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/10/22/xbox-indie-platformers/ Every few days I still take a look at the sales data for Being to see if anybody is buying it. In the last few months, sales had dropped off to about one sale every day or two. Earlier this month, however, I logged in to find I'd ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/10/22/a-good-month-for-being/ I recently received an email asking me for tips on beating the last level of Being, and since it's a rather common occurrence, I put together a Youtube video of me playing through it. I can get through it almost every try, but I'll admit it took me three ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/09/09/being-the-final-level/ Another good review up for Being. http://smallcavegames.blogspot.com/2009/08/being-review.html I'm really happy that there seems to be a renewed interest in reviewing Xbox Indie Games. Now that the developers have been given codes to give away for our games, it's alot easier to make that happen. If you have a website (or ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/08/14/being-reviewed-by-small-cave-games/ I found a great review of Being yesterday. The author really enjoyed the game, and went into great detail about it. The rating system is now in place on the 360 dashboard. If you enjoyed Being, please take a second to go leave a rating. To find it, ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/08/12/a-little-news/ With the latest updates, Xbox Live Creators Club games (now called Xbox Live Indie Games) are available in Germany, Japan, Singapore, and Sweden. And so now too is Being. Also, they've changed the pricing tiers and so now Being is available for only 80 Microsoft points. (Around ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/07/27/beings-world-tour/ It's been awhile since I've written anything. I've gotten really into playing Street Fighter 4, and haven't felt the urge to write video games lately. I do have something interesting to share, though. Microsoft gave us access to the sales data for Community Games recently. As of March ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/04/02/being-sales-data/ Game: Chains Version: Full version Platform: Windows Chains is a very surprising little puzzle game. I'll admit that when I installed the game, I was expecting something like one of those flash games where you click on colored balls and they vanish, with more to take their place, until you either clear ... http://thirdpartyninjas.com/blog/2009/01/05/review-chains/