Archive | February, 2006

Monty Python

Yesterday, a special event was held in Lisbon at the Caixa Economica Operaria to pay homage to the Monthy Python Flying Circus and so during the night, a series of sketches and films were shown to many of the followers and fans of this great show. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there (aaawww) but I heard [...]

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My (patetic) GamerCard

I’ve acquired my Xbox 360 middle january by importing from Spain, the deal was much more cheaper than buying here in Portugal and my console was bundled with lots of good stuff. I must say that so far the console hasn’t made me extremely excited about these “next generation” games because so far they’re fairly [...]

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VideoGame Design course redesign complete

As promissed i’m announcing the redesign for the VideoGames Design and Programming Course of the ATempo Academy of Studies (in portuguese it’s “Curso de desenho e programação de Jogos”). It gave me great joy to complete this redesign, I really liked teaching at the academy and I felt I needed to give the site a [...]

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VideoGame Design course part 1

Last year I was lucky enough to be a teacher for the ATempo academy of studies, for the course in “Design and Programming VideoGames” (or “Desenho e Programação de VideoJogos” for those who know Portuguese) . We mainly discussed a few theories in game design and we had fun programming the games and applying the [...]

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Exploring Ruby on Rails

I’ve started exploring more about Ruby on Rails. Yesterday the mail man finally brought me “Agile Web Development with Rails”, written by Dave Thomas, David Hansson and many others. It’s a great book, i’m slowly installing all the necessary components and browsing the contents of the book but from what i’ve read I must say [...]

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