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by jim-greer 18y ago
We used to use Rally at Kongregate. They're nice guys, but we really hated it - overly complicated and hard to use. Also hell of expensive once you get past the free version.
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by jim-greer 18y ago
We use Pivotal Tracker at Kongregate and love it. You can do everything from one screen. It's got a great lightweight approach to iterations and velocity tracking - once you've done a few iterations you get surprisingly accurate estimates o
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by jim-greer 18y ago
He covered his health in that speech, but according to this CNN piece he was pretty misleading. http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.f... (Scroll about 1/4 of the way down) If he's going to talk about his health, he
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by jim-greer 18y ago
I got started on my Apple ][+ mostly by typing in games from magazines and then modifying them. Softalk was the best - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softalk . They had a Rogue style overhead view ASCII art dungeon crawler - I added my own w
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by jim-greer 18y ago
K-12 curriculum should be weighted more towards programming practice than theory. Understanding the craft of programming, good UI design, and how the web works will be relevant to kids for their whole lives. Turing machines, big O notation,
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by jim-greer 18y ago
This is a great article. Of all the smart people I've worked with, Kyle Gabler is probably the only one I would call a genius. The fact that he can also articulate the way he works is a nice benefit for the rest of us. Little known fact: Ko
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Update: now it's #1! http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/229575/ref=p...
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Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon(2dboy.com)
69 points by jim-greer 18y ago|34 comments
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Wish I'd ordered one of these - I just got my parents a Kodak wireless frame ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016NOTOI ) and setting it up to pull grandbaby pictures from Flickr was painful. Aside from the predictably terrible software
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Zack's been my friend since 7th grade. We started a game company together and succeeded in making the "#1 Game of Alltime that Nobody Bought", according to C-Net. I also helped out with his interactive art stuff. The science piece is worth
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Thoughts on education from a UT research fellow and high school dropout(zacksprojects.blogspot.com)
6 points by jim-greer 18y ago|2 comments
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Quantcast says they have 8.2M monthly active users in the US. That's really impressive... http://www.quantcast.com/pandora.com
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by jim-greer 18y ago
It's good to see JayIsGames getting that link - excellent reviews and commentary on indie, casual, and web games...
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by jim-greer 18y ago
For Kongregate, it's organic search (people searching for specific games) plus referrals (gaming blogs etc linking to games) plus in-game sponsorships (we pay game developers on a CPC basis to include our logo and link inside their games on
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Also it's worth mentioning that the plaintiffs are fearful of ending up with a bad precedent for their side, so they often settle on good terms for Google...
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Most of the cases are important in setting precedents though the plaintiffs weren't big names like Viacom: Perfect 10 v. Google - A porn site sued them over creating thumbnails of their images for image search. Google won, and set an import
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by jim-greer 18y ago
We use this heavily at Kongregate - it's a great tool and never gets in the way.
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by jim-greer 18y ago
TinyUrl lets you make up your own descriptive identifier now.
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Cool that someone from Launchbox is involved. Seems like Google.org hasn't done much yet given all the resources they have.
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Everyone should learn as much about the issues as they can, though when it comes down to it you only have to be more informed than the average voter to improve the pool. Which isn't too high a bar.
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by jim-greer 18y ago
Is it discouraged to submit articles about your own company? If so I'll remove it...
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Kongregate Labs - open source Flash game tutorials(arstechnica.com)
3 points by jim-greer 18y ago|2 comments
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World of Goo released DRM free - no torrents yet (awesome game btw)(2dboy.com)
3 points by jim-greer 18y ago|0 comments