http://blog.xoduz.org Press left mouse button to continue Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:28:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.xoduz.org/2012/01/03/hello-blog-been-a-while/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2012/01/03/hello-blog-been-a-while/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:28:15 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1322 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Hello blog, old friend. It has been a while; fourteen months, to be exact. I planned to write – no really, I did! I even almost finished writing the drafts for several interesting and exciting posts I was going to send your way, only to scrap them when I realized they weren’t really all that [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2012/01/03/hello-blog-been-a-while/feed/ 0 http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/11/19/do-android-phones-dream-of-electric-angry-birds/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/11/19/do-android-phones-dream-of-electric-angry-birds/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:22:53 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1232 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } After much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the fact that mobile frequency bands in Montreal are not compatible with the old, trusty workhorse of a cellphone (HTC Diamond) I brought along from Norway and would only allow me to use it in 2G mode, I finally bit the proverbial bullet and shelled out for [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/11/19/do-android-phones-dream-of-electric-angry-birds/feed/ 0 http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/09/02/my-new-addiction-minecraft/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/09/02/my-new-addiction-minecraft/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:55:27 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1213 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } It’s a oft repeated mantra that the days are gone when single-person development teams could succeed in the game development market. These days you’re not going to get anywhere unless you have a budget that numbers in the millions, and enough manpower to build a life-sized replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza, with some [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/09/02/my-new-addiction-minecraft/feed/ 0 http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/08/30/cthulhu-calls/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/08/30/cthulhu-calls/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:13:12 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1187 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I’ve been playing role-playing games on computers all my life, but I have never before played an actual tabletop role-playing game – aka pen-and-paper. That is, I did make a feeble attempt some 10+ years ago to form a small group to play either Ars Magica or Warhammer Fantasy (both of which I had actually [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/08/30/cthulhu-calls/feed/ 0 http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/08/29/canadian-summer/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/08/29/canadian-summer/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:55:59 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1163 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } A couple of months ago – back in early June – I was offered a position at Funcom Montreal, in Canada. The position is the exact same as the one I had in the Oslo-office, and the salary is pretty much the same, but with the added benefit of having a lower cost of living [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/08/29/canadian-summer/feed/ 0 http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/05/01/offline-character-progression/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/05/01/offline-character-progression/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 05:51:13 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1116 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I haven’t blabbedblogged about anything on this blog for quite some time now. I have, amongst other things, been pre-occupied with working on the Rise of the Godslayer-expansion for Age of Conan, the release-date for which has finally been made public :) What brings me out of hybernation, though, is the Offline Character Progression-system introduced [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/05/01/offline-character-progression/feed/ 2 http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/02/03/computer-troubles/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/02/03/computer-troubles/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:10:19 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1099 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } So, yeah – I spent maybe 7 hours yesterday trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate (retail version). This, after spending the last two days before that trying to debug and hopefully fix my previous installation of Windows 7 (trial version of release candidate), to no avail. It happened late on Sunday just as I was [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/02/03/computer-troubles/feed/ 0 http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/01/05/woho-i-be-unhacketh/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/01/05/woho-i-be-unhacketh/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:42:38 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1093 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } It’s now been a week and a day since I logged in to find my World of Warcraft account hacked, with the gear of my characters sold off to vendors and the gold sent off to some unknown third-party. Today I logged back in to see if I’d gotten any new responses from Blizzard (last [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2010/01/05/woho-i-be-unhacketh/feed/ 3 http://blog.xoduz.org/2009/12/28/woe-is-me-for-i-have-been-hacketh/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2009/12/28/woe-is-me-for-i-have-been-hacketh/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:07:07 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1077 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Well, it has finally happened to me too; My World of Warcraft-account has been compromised! Woke up this morning to several messages on my cellphone from friends asking if I was currently playing on my WoW-account. Seems I had been seen botting in Storm Peaks for several hours without responding – not only weird because [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2009/12/28/woe-is-me-for-i-have-been-hacketh/feed/ 3 http://blog.xoduz.org/2009/12/16/teleportation-in-mmorpgs-or-how-instant-gratification-killed-the-dream-of-virtual-worlds/ http://blog.xoduz.org/2009/12/16/teleportation-in-mmorpgs-or-how-instant-gratification-killed-the-dream-of-virtual-worlds/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:01:58 +0000 Xoduz http://blog.xoduz.org/?p=1028 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Instant matter-disintegration-and-reintegration Teleportation: The ability to instantly transfer matter from one location to another without actually ever moving in the space between those two locations. Scientists have been chasing this dream for decades, and Science-Fiction writers and/or movie directors have been using it as a plot-device and/or a generic method of transportation for even longer. [...]]]> http://blog.xoduz.org/2009/12/16/teleportation-in-mmorpgs-or-how-instant-gratification-killed-the-dream-of-virtual-worlds/feed/ 8