http://blog.jamyskis.net Life, the universe and stuff Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:40:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As my professional life has suddenly and inexplicably gone very quiet, I've decided to devote a little of my time to continuing the development of my games and website. As far as Open Invaders is concerned, I've managed to iron out a few bugs, some of which were reported by a ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=52 I've been reading a lot about the new Youth Protection Act here in Germany (German: Jugendschutzgesetz) and a lot of what I've been reading troubles me deeply. It appears that the video gaming industry and market within Germany is going to be wiped out by politicians that seem to think ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=46 I recently bought myself a brand new GeForce 8600GT to go with my brand new Athlon X2 64-bit 4400+ PC with 2GB RAM, 700GB hard drive space (500GB SATA2, 200GB IDE), and donated my old 6600GT to a friend who was in need of a card that could at the ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=45 I've now got a WLAN network. This is my first entry written with my PSP. Yippee. http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=44 I've been feeling as though both of the above are fairly certain lately. I guess many of you guys have been feeling the same about this site if you've been following it over the past couple of months, with absolutely no updates. There are reasons for this. Since mid-July I've been ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=43 I feel a little dragged down today at having made the decision to remove all the music from my games because the licenses for the titles were simply unclear. The problem is that I have next to nothing to replace them with and nothing with which I can write my ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=42 I notice that the GPL 3 has finally arrived. For those of you who haven't been following the news, the v3 has been the subject of intense debate in the open-source community. Intended to bring the GPL up-to-date with today's issues in the computing world, it had a number of ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=41 I've spent my precious little free time this weekend doing some work on Open Invaders so that a 0.3 release might be possible at the end of this month sometime. Alongside working on the unlockables and the new graphics (courtesy of the lovely Amber Adams), I've now put in a ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=40 Since I've started working freelance I've had less time to work on Open Invaders, but don't worry, I am working on it. Part of the reason that the game may be so delayed is that I have so much that I am planning on building in for version 0.3. The ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=39 I've not had much time to work on Open Invaders lately. In fact I haven't had much time to do anything lately. I'm beginning to work as a freelance translator and although I only work 15 hours at the moment (until I get support from the Arbeitsamt I can't do ... http://blog.jamyskis.net/?p=38