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Martial Arts Instructional Videos

gav — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:21:03 +0000

Wing Chun videos are very common online. Put the phrase wing chun videos into Google and you’ll find a whole host of results from the main sites like youtube, etc.Look for Wing Chun Instructional videos however and you’ll notice these are few and far between. Sure there are plenty of [...]

Official Sup Com Map List

gav — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:35:51 +0000

I wanted to muck around with some of the official maps that ship with Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance so I opened up the Map Editor and browsed the folders. What I found was that all of the maps were in folders named SCMP_001 to SCMP_41. This wasn’t very helpful so I did a quick [...]

Does map symmetry equal balance?

gav — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:55:52 +0000

As of late I’ve been trying to teach myself how to use the Official Supreme Commander Map Editor. I spent a few hours messing around with it the other weekend and basically tweaked one of the existing maps that ships with the game. One thing all this got me thinking about was balance in games today [...]

Balanced Game Design

gav — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:18:42 +0000

I wish more developers would build their games using this symmetric map design that Supreme Commander uses. Take DICE for instance. Battlefield 2 is an excellent multiplayer game and has some great maps. It also has some average and down right boring maps too (I’m looking at most of the PLA ones here). Now I’d [...]

JoomSEF Module includes nasty sponsored links

gav — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:29:56 +0000

I’ve used the Artio JoomSEF for a good number of sites, since I moved away from OpenSEF a while ago. It seems to offer better customisations and was easier to manage. Recently I noticed they had sneaked in some sponsored links into the generator tags. Obviously I was not impressed with this so I was [...]

Armed Assault gets interesting

gav — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:29:03 +0000

Having messed about installing the must have mods and add-ons that we’ve all been instructed to download and install I must say that I’m starting to really enjoy this Armed Assault. Last night we played two custom missions. Being more experienced now, Simon and Alex’s missions were complete with briefing, way-points and other cool things [...]

Mods for Supreme Commander?

gav — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:12:15 +0000

I was reading up on the Gas Powered Games forums about the current BETA testers and their comments on the upcoming expansion Forged Alliance, when I noticed someones signature had a link in to some kind of Sup Com Mod:- http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=4142 The “4th Dimension” is a modification for Supreme Commander which adds new content like [...]

Sunday’s Sup Com

gav — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:59:08 +0000

Okay, so we finally decide we’re going to get another session of Supreme Commander in this Sunday - after all, it’s generally only on a Sunday that we can all get together with enough hours to play a game! The teams were already decided from our last battle - this time it was me and [...]

Bambrugh Castle

gav — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:17:14 +0000

Bambrugh Castle Me & Jof walked for about 3 hours up and down the beach over by bambrugh castle. Took many closeups but this is one of the better “full frame” shots. Pity the sky was not a perfect blue. Did I mention we forgot to use sun lotion? It was a beautiful day and [...]

Blog is back

gav — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:36:43 +0000

Okay, so I wanted to install a blog again and since Heart Internet have it as an easy install option I figured what the heck. I hadn’t been tracking WordPress for a while and didn’t notice the big new 2.0. The last version I tried was 1.0.3 or something and that left me open to [...]