Cory House gave a good talk titled “Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind“ at this year’s NDC Oslo conference (there’s really so many to choose from!) and it’s one that has really resonated with me as it aligns with many of my personal goals and experiences. To help me better remember these [...]

So NDC Oslo 2014’s finished, it was the first time I’ve attended the conference and I must say it has been a fantastic experience for me. No only was I given the privilege to see so many smart people talking about interesting topics happening in our field, I was also able to meet quite a [...]

In Here Be Monsters*, we have a story-driven, episodic MMORPG that has over 3500 items and 1500 quests, and with more text than the first three Harry Potter books combined – so it represented a fairly sizable challenge when we made the decision to localize the whole game!   The Challenge From a technical point [...]

Hello! Just to quick shout to say that the slides for my Neo4j talk tonight on modelling and balancing an in-game economy using Neo4j is now available on Slideshare: Modelling Game Economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui   You can also watch the recording of the talk on SkillsMatter here.   Oh, and did I [...]

Why does the dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog. The phrase wag the dog refers to times when something of a secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary importance. As I watched the recording of [...]