ICANN/IANA Gambling - Place Your Bets

From StoneCypher’s blog:

ICANN has announced their intent to allow the registration of new gTLDs in a repeated auction process, starting for the princely sum of $100,000 for a handful of letters. In IRC in debate the question came up how many vanity 1st level domains (hereafter vanity 1ld) would be purchased.

IANA / ICANN Gambling! Place your bets, be a psychic

My bet is 840. What’s yours?

Blog changes

So I’ve decided to make some changes to the URL structure of my articles. If you’re here looking for a specific article after getting an error page, please be sure to update your links or inform the original poster that the URL format has changed.

Tutorial ideas

So I’m pondering some ideas for a DS development tutorial and what I want to include in it. I’m thinking I’ll be putting it in a “how to make a game” theme rather than just showing people how things work. A few examples of topics I want to cover aside from the basics are:

  • Metatiles (small tile maps that make larger tiles)
  • Background tile animation
  • Sprite movement & animation
  • Parallaxing
  • Collision detection
  • SFX & music (not sure on this one yet)

I’m still brainstorming so any ideas are welcome. The tutorial will only cover libnds usage so you PALib zealots are out of luck. You may want to read my PALib Survival Guide to find out why.

You’re on a desert island with your DS…

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

I normally hate doing stuff like this as it’s completely out of character for me. However, my pride is interfering with my health & well-being. The past couple months have been hell on my wife & I and we’ve fallen on harder times than we’re used to. There have been a few times where I’ve gone a couple days without food in order to make sure my rent and other important things are paid. It’s really tough to keep focused on code that could prove to be profitable when you don’t even have the energy to stay awake.
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FlashMe v7 Mirror

Just mirroring the FlashMe files since I’ve gotten a lot of comments in the past couple months wanting to know which version they were. My previous post was for v5 (if memory serves me correctly). The ones here are v7.

flashme.zip
flashme.nds
MD5: fa220267edb05f4386025d97e2168f3f
SHA1: 010224b1edddf8d881248a60d215b493cb1c1cd7

flashme_stealth.zip
flashme_stealth.nds
MD5: d4521d1f86232d11ee63562393b630f9
SHA1: 943ab02e5c22ff6c2beac11693053ef3aa9b0f5f

noflashme.zip
noflashme.nds
MD5: 8cdfc84f6882e1a988b776753b3e6a67
SHA1: fe3f72e28a85465c6a506d5cbf78edafe58ac33b