Now at Best Buy: Ubuntu in Box

Monday, July 14th, 2008 by Enrico

Just caught this article as I was reading technology news this morning.  Apparently, Best Buy will soon be selling Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a retail box, with manual, quick start guide, and 2 months of support, all for $19.99.  It certainly beats the pants off of the pricing for Vista.
Ubuntu has made some excellent progress [...]

Mousetrap Mania!

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 by Enrico

The fine folks behind TOJam have finally posted all of the games from this year’s jam. Among them is the game we created that weekend: “Mousetrap Mania“. We’re quite proud of how it turned out.
The game was semi-inspired by “ChuChu Rocket!“, a quirky puzzle game for the Sega Dreamcast that was developed by [...]

Reddit goes Open Source!

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 by Enrico

Michael and I very often browse Reddit for interesting articles on all sorts of topics, including computer science and IT.  Today, I was looking through Programming Reddit as usual and the link at the top of the front page was to this site.  Reddit has made their code available through a public git repository and [...]

Impressions of TOJam 3

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 by Enrico

We’re back from TOJam!
It really was a crazy weekend. We worked day and night from Friday evening all the way up to the Sunday evening deadline. There were the highs and lows throughout: sometimes things were going well and on schedule and we were feeling extremely productive and sometimes we were pushing through [...]

Tenthline at TOJam 3

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 by Enrico

Michael and I are registered for TOJam 3, an indie game development jam held annually in downtown Toronto. The jam is a mad three-day dash to create small, polished, fun games. The games need to follow a theme (this year’s theme is cheese) and must incorporate some images and sounds, such as a [...]