Check out the game trailer

Uploaded a completely redone www.LittleBoyGames.com website. The new website is completely branded/focused on our upcoming XBLA game. Check it out. Intend to do a PR push once our game gets out of cert and our launch date is confirmed.

Today when I was looking at the Little Boy Games website I noticed my home brew blog written in asp.net/sql server was totally messed up. Good thing I switched to use blogger. I am still in the process of updating the website where I will put a link to this personal blog.

GGBS Fails Certification

Today has to rank as one of my more depressing days after finding out GGBS failed MS certification. This is the final QA check a game goes through before it can hit the market. The game failed on a roaming scenario test case where the game and the profile that purchased the game are placed on a memory unit and the game is played on another Xbox 360. We fixed the code with a 2 line fix and have resubmitted the build. The bug did not reproduce itself 100% and apparently this is how it sneaked pass our testing provider. The whole process will take at least another agonizing three weeks to go through testing and re-cert.

New, New Blog System

I just decided it was a bad idea to roll my own blog system when I could just use a free one that had all the features I would ever need and more. So I have copied all my blogs into Blogger.com. Sorry to all those people who posted comments that have been banished to digital doom.

Frogster

Check out this educational video game that I created for the Vancouver Aquarium. It is an update on old skool Frogger highlighting the plight of frogs. Use the arrow keys to move the frog. Good luck!

Did we use XNA?

We did not use XNA to develop GGBS, we used the standard Xbox 360 SDK (XDK) and the game is written in C++.

New Blog System

Previously my blog was just a plain html page that I would manually edit and then upload to the server. It was somewhat inconvenient to edit because I could not do it directly in the browser and more importantly it did not support comments (assuming people read my blog). So I wrote my own blog system. It was kinda fun because it has been several years since I last did any web server side stuff. I spent Saturday evening learning/relearning the basics of aspx/sql and coding up the blog. ASP.Net/C# development was pretty productive. Just finished adding the old blog entries into the new system. It works so please add comments.