Category Archives: Computers

Jam Game #3

Way back in November of last year saw the third Dundee Jam event being held. After doing much of the organisation of this event and thinking up an idea for a game to write I was pretty miffed to find … Continue reading

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Ribbons, Tunnels & Techno

Last weekend saw the fourth Sundown demo party being held in Budleigh Salterton in the UK. Once again the party was bigger than ever, once again I was unable to attend.. and once again I wanted to enter a demo. … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Interactive Festival

A big hello to anyone visiting here after seeing one of my talks at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival over the past couple of days. I gave two talks at the event. The first, on Sunday 11th, was a one hour … Continue reading

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Demoscene 01 – Mission complete!

Yesterday I held my demoscene seminar at the University of Abertay. The audience of around 30 people was a good mix of University staff and students as well as members of the local gamedev community. I spent a little over … Continue reading

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Another day, another game..

Last Saturday we held the second Dundee Jam. This is an event where a bunch of slightly foolhardy developers gather together to create games in the space of a single day. The theme for the Jam this time was “build”. … Continue reading

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Demoscene 01

It used to be a fairly regular event: gather a group of friends together, post-pub, at the house with the biggest projector screen we could find and watch demos. I’d always end up as the curator, either choosing the demos … Continue reading

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I’ve Been Pimped!

My last two demoscene releases have certainly raised a bit of interest. They’ve both appeared on several forums and done really well on sites like Pouet. Even more interesting though is when they get picked up in places that I … Continue reading

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Pimp My Spectrum

Just got back from the Breakpoint 08 demo party in Germany. Around 30 UKSceners turned up and a great time was had by all. The best part for me though was winning the PC 64k demo competition with the Ate … Continue reading

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Dundee Game Jam

We here at Denki ran our first one day “Game Jam” over the weekend and the results are mightily impressive. The idea is that we take a bunch of programmers and artists and try to produce some game sketches, guided … Continue reading

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Pimp My Chips…….. finally!

I’ve been working on this ( not so ) secret side-project for quite some time now. I think it may have started as far back as 2005. At that time it was going to be a cross-platform ( OSX and … Continue reading

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