Author: secondtruth
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Fixing A Frowny Face on the Raspberry Pi
This post is to document a weird error for posterity. But first, some background: We’ve been working for a while on a device that uses the Raspberry Pi 2 running Windows 10. It’s neat! If you want more information about how to install Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, go here: Windows…
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A Health and Weight Loss Post
I know I usually write about games and tech, so forgive me: I’m going to write about something personal (with, maybe just a little about tech). Over the past two years I’ve started taking my health more seriously and worked hard on losing some weight. Microsoft incentivizes employees to get yearly checkups. When I got…
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Fragments: Design for Mixed Reality
Anyone who knows me knows how extremely excited I was for the HoloLens, the Mixed Reality device being developed by Microsoft. When I saw the live demonstrations of the device, I knew I had to have it. All that being said, as excited as I was about the HoloLens, I was excited about it for…
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Helping with Your Game Dev Homework
Hi Blog! Recently, a student (I’ll leave out details) emailed me these questions about the process of game development and how to get started. I haven’t posted since MAGfest, so I decided to answer them here too. That way anyone who is interested in answers to some basic questions can see them. I think beginners…
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Thank you MAGFest!
I just returned from MAGFest in Maryland and I have had a terrific time. I am so proud to be part of the MAGES group at MAGFest and enjoy giving panels to talk about my experiences as a gamer and game creator. Plus, the music rocks! I have a full writeup now up at Tap-Repeatedly.com, but…
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Raw Tech on Channel 9
Since this summer, Microsoft Evangelists have been working hard to put more content on Channel 9, Microsoft’s home for tutorial and video blogs. Today, I uploaded a short video, a ten-minute summary of the hour-long talk I gave at CodeMash about mobile game design! I hit the highlights and go over some tips about mobile design…
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Affordances in High Fidelity Environments or Why I Liked Tomb Raider Better Than Uncharted
I wrote a review of Rise of the Tomb Raider for Tap-Repeatedly.com. In the process, I went back and read my Uncharted review. I played Uncharted really late, and I actually didn’t much like the first Uncharted when I played it. On the other hand, I liked the Tomb Raider reboot and its sequel quite…
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Quick Events Update
Just a reminder that I am heading to Grace Hopper Women in Computing starting tomorrow! On Wednesday, I have a panel with three other amazing women! Here’s details: http://schedule.gracehopper.org/session/design-and-development-considerations-in-serious-games/ Hope to meet lots of great new people! I intend to post some video content about this trip too, schedule permitting. For more information about my…
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Cooking with Dungeons & Dragons (2)
Following up on my previous adventures, I’m cooking recipes from Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home when my D&D group comes over to play. This month I just cooked one recipe – the first one in the recipe book – Gully Dwarf Stew! Gully Dwarf Stew calls for a lizard, because Gully Dwarves,…
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New video at Channel 9
I posted up a new video blog showing how I set up my Particle IoT device. Check it out on the Raw Tech channel this time: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/raw-tech/Setting-up-a-Particle-Photon