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Just saw Man of Steel.

It was a major disappointment for me.

Bad plot, bad story, bad writing, bad presentation.

To be fair, some of it is just Superman. Declaring patriotism with a flag waving in the background, I can live with that. Classic Superman.

Giving yourself up to potential death for the good of humanity, while standing in a church sharing...

The new Article Writing forum  has some interesting discussion going on lately.As the site administrators were asking for a list of topics, I started looking over the list.Then I realized something...I could probably write 2/3 of the articles they were asking for.I've got the education and the experience.  I attended graduate school after completing my ba...

Okay, this is the wrap-up.I was planning on part 6 adding to the pet game having them loop back to the individual pet in determining the interest, and part 7 adding inventory items, a plot, and otherwise finishing off the dungeon explorer.Then I realized --- it doesn't add anything new to the series. They are just new machines that replicate the behaviors...

Okay, quick review. Part 1 - basics of a state machine ; Part 2 - simple state machine interface ; Part 3 - turning the simple state machine into a dungeon exploration game ; Part 4 - making it data driven . That brings us to Part 5, an artificial intelligence system. First, I know this pattern is used in major games.  How do I know?  First, because I wro...

Back to the castle exploration game.  We're still working with an single state machine in the AdaptableStateMachine engine.  This will be our third concrete example of a state machine.Recap: In Part 1  we covered the definition of a state machine and implemented a simple machine with a case statement.In Part 2  we created a common state machine interface,...

In Part 1  we learned what state machines are and we also hard-coded a simple state machine using a switch statement.In Part 2  we made a simple state machine interface and a generic state machine runner. We also created one boring state machine instance.Now in Part 3 we are going to actually make a game. It isn't much of a game, but it has all the elemen...

We completed Part 1 with a simple boring hard-coded state machine, implemented by a switch statement .It didn’t do much. In textbooks that would be called “an exercise for the reader.”In this entry (Part 2) we're going to prepare the rest of the way for our game. Since I know in advance where I am leading you, I'll tell you that we need a bunch of state m...

I recently had a conversation with a beginner on GameDev.net about the importance of state machines.Most of the beginners on the site are teenagers enrolled in secondary school. Often they pick up concepts here and there over the Internet when they think it will help, but don’t take the time to learn topics that don’t seem interesting.State machines. Bah!...

I've gone through the rest of the items that I care about, and adjusted them.I've also only tested this on Chrome. Why? Because I made it for me, not really for the public. I'm throwing it out there for the world in the hopes that somebody else might find it useful, too. And because a few people asked me about it.Right now I'm satisfied with how this look...

As I've mentioned in a few posts, I'm working on trimming down the site a little bit in my own user css.I have trimmed down the top menus, assorted boxes and dialogs, and forum post tables. I toned down the background and adjusted a few colors. I moved the feedback image so it doesn't cover the text, and moved the "loading" tab to the side for the same re...