ASCIIpOrtal Launch-day interview – part 2

September 22, 2009

Welcome to part 2 of JOMG’s ASCIIpOrtal launch-day interview with programmer Joe Larson. We’ve still got lots of things to cover, including Slashdotting, level editing, ASCIIpOrtal Online & more…

(If you haven’t already read part 1, you’d better do that first.)

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Here it is: ASCIIpOrtal Launch-day interview – part 1

September 22, 2009

It seems a long time ago, that I first spotted a thread about ASCIIpOrtal, and broke the news. A few months later, an early video triggerred an internet stampede, and now, we’re less than 90 minutes from the release of ASCIIpOrtal.

(EDITORS NOTE: It’s now available to download. The link is at the end of Part 2)

Welcome, to JOMG’s ASCIIpOrtal launch-day interview, with its creator, Joe Larson.

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Retroaction – issue 3 – out now

September 15, 2009

OK, the tease is over. Retroaction 3 is out now.

And what a great issue!

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PREVIEW: Retroaction – issue 3 – out this Monday!

September 11, 2009

If you haven’t seen it before, Retro Action is a quarterly fan-made PDF magazine, with high quality content and excellent visual design.

It makes the most of the PDF format too, treating it not as “a way to make printing easier” but a way to make magazines interactive, by including working WWW links wherever possible.

Issue 3 is out this Monday, and I’ve just had a look through it.
Superb!

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And… we’re BACK.

September 10, 2009

Woh. Sorry about that.

Apparently… you don’t have much time when a baby arrives!

Who would have known? It’s not like Pacman & Ms Pacman retired as soon as baby Pac arrived.

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