JibberJabber (blog)
Spring 2017 blog update summaries
It has been a long time since I posted anything. It has been a very tough year for me personally. But I need to announce some things, so I’m doing a simultaneous dump. This is a short summary to each of the new entries.
Most publically, was the death of my mentor, friend, and former co-founder Carlos Icaza. …
Thank you for all the supportive responses for “Why We Loved Sierra Games” & follow-up
I wanted to say thank you to all of you who have sent me supportive responses for Why We Loved Sierra Games.
A personal high point is that I got to correspond with some of the Sierra designers, who are like personal heroes to me. I won’t post any private correspondence here, but here are the public posts some of them did. …
Blurrr SDK (soft) Launch
I finally publicly announced Blurrr SDK during my Swift on Android talk at try! Swift Tokyo. It is a new SDK focusing on making native cross-platform development easier. It features a common foundation of solid open source cross-platform libraries, such as SDL, while additionally providing a sane way to uniformly manage all different native build system processes. …
"Dance of the Fairies” Quest for Glory inspired demo & In memory of Carlos Icaza
What does a fairy dance look like when there are no clumsy, smelly humans around?
For Sierra fans everywhere: This is inspired from the Quest for Glory series. It is also in memory to my friend, mentor, and former co-founder, Carlos Icaza who passed away unexpectedly this summer.
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Swift on Android at try! Swift Tokyo
I was invited to speak at the try! Swift Tokyo conference about Swift on Android. Since I’m something like only 1 of 4 people in the world who know anything about this, I eventually got asked.
The talk went extremely well. Even though it was by far the longest talk of the conference (slotted for 45 minutes instead of the usual 20), attendees told me it went by fast. …
DuckTales 2017 news updates: Song + First-look, RIP Alan Young & Chris Barat,McDuck’s at DisneySea
As some of you may already know, Disney is rebooting DuckTales with a brand new show coming later in 2017. The announcement was devoid of any details, but they have since released a teaser of the new voice cast singing the DuckTales theme song, and finally a proper first look video.
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