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Nature Walk Photography
Today, my camera buddies and I explored the area behind the big AA building in Basingstoke. These are some of the pictures I took along the way.
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While playing around with the Metro design style, I came across a peculiar issue involving fonts. I’d used the Segoe UI Light font for the title and worked fine in Chrome but looked different when I checked it in Firefox. The font Segoe Ui Light worked absolutely fine in Chrome, but Firefox couldn’t seem to find the font and fell back to the next backup, Segoe UI, a much heavier font. After a while of poking around I found a way to fix it. In the CSS for the title class I added a font-weight of lighter, so that even if it did...
read moreSpaceWar Update: Horizontal vs Vertical Feature Design
Greetings, Programs! I haven’t posted about this before so I’ll give you a quick explanation of SpaceWar. I’m a big fan of 4X space games, games like Masters of Orion 2 and Galactic Civilizations 2. In these games, you take control of a species or empire and try to become the dominant force in the galaxy through colonization, research, combat and diplomacy. But I’ve always thought that they lacked epicness; games will often last for hours or even days, but your interaction with the games are quite limited and travelling...
read moreAbandoned Office Space
A few days ago, a few of my colleagues and I went down stairs to the basement level of our office building. There’s a huge area down there completely unused, which is a shame because it’s a really awesome space. They should rent it by the hour or something, I’d love to play some post-apocalyptic RPG or something down there.
read moreSome More Shots With My New Camera
I’ve been playing with some more of the lenses my brother lent me, these are some of the shots I’ve taken this weekend. Let me know what you think!
read moreI Bought My First DSLR!
I’ve never been in to photography, in all my time on this earth (that’s not very much) it never really interested me… and I dated a photography student for three years! Recently, my colleague showed me a website about Urban Exploring, Silent UK, a blog run by photographers who go to urban areas that other people pass by without a second glance. Abandoned buildings, storm drains and train stations are some of the subjects of the stunning photographs shown off there. I guess it appealed to my interest in cyberpunk and...
read more2D Isometric Turn-Based Space RPG
I’ve got my lovely laptop back. I’ve got Visual Studio installed. I’ve got my old code I was playing around with. I’ve decided to write a game again. I’ve never finished a game but that doesn’t really bother me, its the discovery and problem solving I enjoy, not the endless content creation (and I’m a rubbish artist). I’m a hobbyist, not an indie developer. So what’s this game about? I don’t know for certain. It’s going to be 2d, because that’s easier to program....
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