Kidding Ourselves It's either one of two. We are either doing something for our future or doing something to believe we are doing something for the future. Wait, there is a third case too: simply not doing anything whatsoever.
Only Skills Should Talk I'm one of those people who truly believe in skills. In other words, I do not like talkers, backstabber, or anyone who tries to climb up the food chain by playing politics. Those people disgust me pretty well, and if I see a place where those people are allowed, I tend to question the place, too.
Vancouver is Most Livable City... Really? Some organization in U.K named Vancouver as the most livable city in world. According to the article, it was based on these five categories:
Pleased with the Lastest Google Chrome I've been using Google Chrome as my primary web browser because of its minimalism. However, there was one thing that was somewhat pissing me off: it was always using the primary monitor's screen dimension as full-screen size, even if the window is on my second monitor, which has a smaller resolution than my primary one.
Space Marine is Announced It always feels so good to see my game is being announced because finally I can say what I'm working on. I'm working on Warhammer 40K: Space Marine. And this is the first video we released. (The video which was circulating on YouTube last year has nothing to do with our game although it bears the same name…)
Math Behind Photoshop Blending If you are a graphics programmer in the game industry, you will always have your beloved artists say something like this: "Hey, I want this Photoshop blaa-blaa-blending in our game!"
3D Pixel Perfect Object Picking with Hash I ran into this article, which describes how to do object picking using a render target and a simple shader. Yes, this is basically how we support pickings in game editors nowadays thanks to programmable shaders. =)
Something Has Changed Being unable to be motivated to do anything this lazy Saturday, I ended up watching E! True Hollywood Story on TV. There were two episodes(?) back to back, one about someone I don't even know, and not worth remembering anyway, and the other one was about J.Lo.
Inspiring People Creating Innovations I'm currently reading a book called The Art of Innovation, and it mentions the author's company has been covered by ABC once sometime ago. I managed to find the Youtube videos, which I found inspiring and worth sharing… so enjoy, it has three parts in order.