The 400 Project

From the site:

It’s an attempt to write up 400 rules of game design that can be used by designers to make better games.

So far it looks pretty good!

Lego Factory -- my idea realized

A long time ago I had an idea about creating a 3d tool that would let you create any lego model you wanted - and then have some way to order the pieces for that model + print out the step by step directions. It looks like folks at Lego had a similar idea with Lego factory.

You know what would be a very cool next step? a Lego 3D printer! Send your favorite models to your friends and let the "3d printer" create it right there.

Yahoo! Instant Search is out!

Yay! I can finally talk about the project that's been my #1 focus for some time now. I want to send out a thousand congrats and thanks to all of my fellow Yahoos for their hard work and dedication. We truly have the most awesome team of folks that I've ever worked with here at Yahoo!

If you have ideas or suggestions for making Instant Search even better check out the forums and post away! I cant wait to hear what you all think of it!

Adventure Game - using Firefox Canvas -- part 1

Developing on Canvas is really fun!
I spent a few minutes today and hacked together the barest beginnings of a little adventure game using Canvas. Going to call it The Canvas Adventure (yeah highly original).

One thing that makes this really easy to do is that you can layer canvases on top of one another using absolute positioning --- AND --- canvases are naturally TRANSPARENT. This means you can have multiple layers of stuff going on and not have to worry about erasing parts of the screen for redraw -- instead just erase the whole layer and paint the new state. FUN!