Category Archives: general

posts about general topics, even not related to computer games

New Zealand

Recently I read a lot of good things about that place. I watched a tv show 2 days ago, and was awesome. Nature, green places, few density of people per km… seems really a wonderful place to live.
Also you can see the dawn and the sunset over the sea… what more can you ask? 😉 who knows, maybe in some years I’ll think seriously about it!

Bologna FC relegated :(

Yeah, took me almost a week to recover from the shock :p
My team, Bologna FC, got relegated. I must say that they deserved it, as they lost with two semi-autogoals and did nothing to win that game. Well I guess that when I’ll program my game USM2 I’ll need to include also italian Serie B so I can play Bologna while testing the game 😉

DirectX vs OpenGL

On indiegamer forums are debating again which graphic render is the best. Well personally I use PTK to make my games, so until 2 months ago I could just use OpenGL. Now that DX support has become available, I tried porting my game The Goalkeeper. Now you can play it both using OpenGL or DirectX (you can choose at startup). I can say that the number of sales has slightly increased. It’s too early to tell (just 2 months of data isn’t enough) but I am thinking seriously that having the possibility to run the game also using DX is a very good thing…!

Under pressure

Yes I feel a bit under pressure 🙂 I just opened the new forums and instantly got request about release dates for Magic Stones and USM2… ok next time I won’t even announce an “estimate” release date!! 🙂
After all if big companies delay their titles for 1-2 years I can delay one of my small games of 2-3 months no?

Bologna won 1st playoff match

Woowoo my favourite team, Bologna FC, won the first match of the play-off to stay in Serie A for 1-0 against Parma (home team). There have been some weird situations and a final brawl with the good old trainer Mazzone involved. All in all, was a fun match! 🙂