http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2013-04-01T15:10:30Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2013-04/doom-3-source/ <p>This <a href="http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php">review of Doom 3's source release</a> is full of tons of interesting stuff, even for non-graphics programmers. [via waferbaby]</p> 2013-04-01T15:10:30Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-12/buildy/ <p><a href="http://playbuildy.com/">Buildy</a> seems like it might be fun, in a modern <a href="http://www.citycreator.com/">City Creator</a> sort of way, but I haven't managed to create anything cool myself (here's <a href="http://playbuildy.com/world?id=509d58bffb5fdf50c0000005">my effort</a>) and there's no good directory of player-created stuff. Have any of you been playing with it?</p> <p class="bimg"><img src="/images/blog/playbuildy.png" width="600" height="361" /></p> 2012-12-06T13:41:36Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-10/halfblock/ <p><a href="http://halfblock.grumdrig.com/">Halfblock</a> is a very neat sort-of-minecraft-clone written in JavaScript using WebGL. The <a href="https://bitbucket.org/grumdrig/halfblock">source code</a> is unfortunately on bitbucket instead of github, but cloning it shouldn't be too hard.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://halfblock.grumdrig.com/"><img src="/images/blog/halfblock.png" width="600" height="337" /></a></p> 2012-10-31T09:22:07Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-10/frog-fractions/ <p><a href="http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions">Frog Fractions</a> is, without a doubt, the best frog-based educational fractions game.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions"><img src="/images/blog/frog_fractions.png" width="600" height="450" /></a></p> <p>The game is a little deeper than it first appears - make sure you get the presidential pool upgrade.</p> 2012-10-29T16:35:51Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-10/the-circle-line/ <p>One the one hand, it looks terrible. However, London Underground Simulator (Circle Line) is so detailed in all the right ways that I just want to play it. For hours.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><div class="videoWrapper"><iframe width="560" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Th8H6mnM540?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-f6ytD-mlA&feature=channel&list=UL">part 2</a> and then <a href="http://www.amazon.com/London-Underground-Simulator-PC-DVD-ROM/dp/B005CFDBF4/">buy yourself a copy</a>.</p> 2012-10-28T13:48:15Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/world-of-mapcraft/ <p>For quite a few months I have been working on creating a full set of zoom-able slippy maps for World of Warcraft. After much dithering, it's finally ready, along with an article about its creation and the WoW internals needed to build it.</p> <p>You can <a href="http://www.iamcal.com/world-of-mapcraft/">read the article</a> or head straight on over to the <a href="http://worldofmapcraft.com/">live maps</a>.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www.iamcal.com/world-of-mapcraft/"><img src="http://www.iamcal.com/articles/assets/wow_map_naxx.png" /></a></p> 2012-06-16T12:57:50Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-01/2750/ <p>spacechem is one of the most difficult games i've played in the last few years. what <a href="http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/playing-in-the-sandbox-the-winners/">these people</a> have managed is mind-boggling</p> 2012-01-24T10:58:36Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-10/2727/ <p><a href="http://www.gourmetgaming.co.uk/">gourmet gaming</a> is a great concept - recreating dishes from video games</p> 2011-10-01T13:05:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-07/2701/ <p><a href="http://iphonedevpinoy.blogspot.com/2011/02/dungeon-raid-strategies-tips-and-tricks.html">some tips</a> for dungeon raid. so fucking addictive</p> 2011-07-08T19:17:24Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-05/2667/ <p>having recently re-played half-life 2 (in the wake of the portal 2 release), i've been re-reading <a href="http://www.hlcomic.com/archive/">concerned</a>, an excellent hl2 parody comic</p> 2011-05-11T10:44:49Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)