Monthly Archives: November 2007

Orcs vs. Martians

My friend and former coworker, whom I will call “The H”, went indie sometime back to work on his own RTS game, dubbed Orcs vs. Martians. Well, I am impressed to tell you that he has reached the Beta milestone … Continue reading

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Mini-map Mayhem

Well, okay, it’s not really mayhem but rather a required feature of any Real-time Strategy (RTS) Game: The mini-map. I just put in the rudiments of my mini-map for Crescendo: What you are looking at, in the upper part of … Continue reading

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Entering the Blogs for Jesus

I read in the latest edition of the National Catholic Register a little article that tickled my funny bone. Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the 76-year-old vicar for the Diocese of Rome, spoke at a Pontifical University recently about young people blogging … Continue reading

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Smashing Pumpkins

No, not the popular band that came out with such hits as Today, Disarm, and 1979, but I refer to the kids in our neighborhood who determined last night that we had kept out our pumpkins too long past Halloween … Continue reading

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Adoption Awareness Month

There’s a good article on CatholicExchange.com about adoption, including a link to the author’s first article that covered the difficult side of adoption. I looked at the portraits of the children on the heart gallery of Texas website today and … Continue reading

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