Floppy Drives in the White House

Posted by on March 14, 2012

Original Discussion

In the first 40 days of President Barack Obama’s administration, the White House email system was down 23% of time, according to White House CIO Brook Colangelo, the person who also delivered the ‘first presidential Blackberry.’ The White House IT systems inherited by the new administration were in bad shape. Over 82% of the White House’s technology had reached its end of life. Desktops, for instance, still had floppy disk drives, including the one Colangelo delivered to Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s then chief of staff and now Mayor of Chicago. There were no redundant email servers. Read more »

I threw out my console(s) 2008

Posted by on March 14, 2012

Original Discussion

“While you might have often heard that PC gaming is dying — detractors have been claiming this for over a decade — one developer has a different take: that consoles are the ones on the way out. In a 26-minute presentation at GDC — available now as a slideshow with a voice-over — Ben Cousins, who heads mobile/tablet game maker ngmoco, uses statistics of electronic and gaming purchases, along with market shares of developers and publishers from just a few years ago, to come to some surprising conclusions. The old guard, including the three big console manufacturers — Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft — are losing out when compared with the new generation of gaming platform developers: Facebook, Apple and Google. With the new companies, the size of the audience is vastly increased because of their focus on tablets, mobile and browser-based gaming.”

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PHP Mafia Wars – A Simple Simulator

Posted by on March 3, 2012

Requires

  • Basic PHP Knowledge
  • 30 minutes

Overview Building Mafia War Style Game

Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, Merchant, and many other style of games that involve only time based gaming along with stat building called simple simulators.  The idea to give you a simulated idea of creating a character that is what fantasy role you are trying to create for the player.  These are very popular retro games and have seen recent popularity among mobile phones and social networks.  Zygna has their start with quality design graphic interfaces on top of simple simulators of the past.

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PHP Game Engine – AJAX Tile Based RPG

Posted by on March 3, 2012

Requirements

  • Basic to moderate knowledge of PHP5 and JavaScript
  • Simple Terrain and Player Graphics
  • Figure 30 to 60 minutes of your time

Overview of Building of a Tile Base PHP Game Engine

In computer science they teach 90% design and 10% coding.   In practice it is rarely if ever that generally it’s a mixture and iterative process.   Today we are going to spend the time making a game, for this we need a general “idea” for the game. Read more »