Not too much news today. Two of my children have band concerts today, Lauren is playing the coronet in Middle School, and Johnny is playing the baritone in the High School band. Andy Milonakis got more network exposure last week, and will be going on the Jimmy Kimmel show soon. Should be fun, it's intesting to watch an internet fad evolve in real time like this. I just updated my movie prices web page today, it is now current with movie closings for the last couple of months.
Planetside Screenshots
I realize that this post is going to cause some Web-Wiplash, but I think that is ok. For years I have held onto some old Planetside screenshots that I wanted to post online some day. After scouring an old hard drive yesterday these are the ones I came up with. Still, I know I am missing many of the screenshots I really wanted to keep. Especially ones from when the game was very early in development. I designed the entire client side game engine myself and I had a lot of fun during the development process. One of my regrets is that, in many respects, the final game did not look nearly as visually impressive as it did at certain points during development. There were a number of reasons for this. One was from a technology stand point. Most developers of an MMO game engine might assume it would be reasonable to stream data in as a player moved around the environment. That was certainly my original design. However, once the game got into heavy beta testing there was a strong push to get eve...
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