Viking Hammer

Archive for December, 2008

New Leveling Process

So this morning, I came up with a considerably better way to define the levels for my number grid game. (Yes, I did that on Christmas morning. What?) Instead of the ridiculous if-statement I put together last night, which would have been more than a little cumbersome to maintain, I now have a simple list [...]

A Simple Edutainment Game: It’s Math Bejeweled!

I read an article earlier today, exhorting people to write “edutainment” software; there were multiple complaints in the article: teaching is hard so teachers should be classroom managers who turn to an authoritative knowledge database for answers to their students’ questions, children are addicted to video games so there should be video games that teach [...]

Goodbye Blogger.com

Another blog is born. I’ve gotten fed up with trying to use Blogger. I’ve been posting there, on and off, for a couple of years now. And this week, I tried to go back in and post something, and they were having technical problems that prevented me from being able to create a new post. [...]