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Comment Game Coding in C#? Use Unity (Score 1) 188

by Frizzled on Friday March 09, 2012 @09:16PM (#39308269) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Find Expertise For Amateur Game Development?

Unity 3D lets you write in C# (or Javascript) then port to PC, Mac, WebGL, iPhone, Android -and, if rumors are to be believed, soon Windows phone.

Free to try, not too pricey for the full version either. They have some demos to get you started, there are also a few books to help you dive deeper.

http://unity3d.com/

Comment Worth the read? (Score 4, Informative) 127

by Frizzled on Thursday September 16, 2010 @02:41PM (#33602694) Attached to: Haystack and the Myth of the Boy Wizard

The Slate write-up was much better:

http://www.slate.com/id/2267262/

Submission + - GameStop manager suspended after 'games for grades (kvue.com)

Submitted by

mikesd81

on Monday September 17, 2007 @01:23PM

mikesd81 writes: "A local Austin, Texas ABC affiliate, KVUE, reports about a manager at a GameStop that was suspended for instituting a "games for grades" policy. From the article: " Brandon Scott says he started a unique new policy in his store to promote good grades in school but now his employer has sent him to detention for speaking out of turn. Scott says he's been suspended by GameStop in the wake of his unconventional "games for grades" policy at an Oak Cliff store. " Apparently, on his own, Scott decided to stop selling video games to any school-age customer unless an adult would vouch for the student's good grades."

Feed Mozilla mulls Windows cursor flaw fix of its own (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:52PM

Open-source Firefox browser is vulnerable to attack using the Windows flaw.

Busy Lives Prompt Speedier Board Games 153

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:50PM from the play-faster-dangit dept.

BusylikeBum writes "Michelle Hastings admits she's sometimes cheated to get through a game of Candy Land with her 5-year-old daughter, Campbell. The board game can take just too long, she said. Disney Monopoly is another big offender. 'A game like that, it could literally take you days,' said Hastings, of Holliston, Mass. 'A lot of times, you don't play games because they take so long.' Board game makers are heeding pleas of parents like Hastings and introducing games tailored to busy lives and shorter attention spans that take only about 20 minutes to play." This is especially interesting to me, given the US adoption of more serious, lengthy German board games in the last few years.

Submission + - Hackers offer subscription, support for malware

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:42PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Organised gangs are taking a page out of security vendors' books and setting up their own websites that offer support and subscriptions for malware and spyware.

From the article: "For subscriptions starting as low as $20 per month, enterprises can sell "fully managed exploit engines" that spyware distributors and spammers can use to infiltrate systems worldwide, said Gunter Ollmann, director of security strategies at IBM's ISS X-Force team.

Many exploit providers simply wait for Microsoft's monthly patches, which they then reverse engineer to develop new exploit code against the disclosed vulnerabilities, Ollmann said. "Then all you've got to do is just subscribe to them on a monthly basis."

Harvesting Energy in the Sky 261

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:29PM from the pie-in-the-sky dept.

withoutfeathers writes "The Economist magazine has an article on Flying wind farms. Mind you, we're not talking about ordinary, terrestrial windmills here. We're talking about actual airborne — up to 10km in the sky — wind farms intended to harvest the immense supply of energy in the jet stream. On the surface, the idea seems a little eccentric but, in fact, San Diego (California, US) based Sky WindPower has, apparently, thought their concept through pretty thoroughly and believes they can not only make this work, but do so profitably. The article discusses several other ideas for high-flying wind farming including a Dutch proposal to use pairs of kites to drive a generator."

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