Comments on: I Love Getting “Research Material For The Game Project”…

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:08:29 +0000

Hope your tax man won’t read about this shenanigan! ;)

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:52:11 +0000

Expense it dude. Stick it on your accounts. I put games, consoles, TV, cables, lunch with Helen etc on my accounts. It’s valid. Worst case you get audited (rare) and they disagree and you say “oops I did realise”.

By: Pathogen David

Pathogen David — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:07:57 +0000

Well, sort-of. I was looking around for alternative UI systems. I wanted something similar to HTML and CSS because they work good for designing stuff like that. I stumbled onto Wolfire’s website through Frictional Games and got interested in their tech; eventually I found out about their UI system using Google Chromium to render HTML5+CSS3 web pages and yeah…

By: Juuso

Juuso — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:57:11 +0000

Ahh, David – so you were researching for the “user interface usability and experience”.

Understandable.

o:)

By: David (Pathogen Studios)

David (Pathogen Studios) — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:51:36 +0000

Guilty as charged =) That is how I justified pre-ordering Overgrowth. (Our games don’t have much of anything to do with each other, they just use the same UI tech as us XD)

~David

By: Tobias Scheuer

Tobias Scheuer — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:16:57 +0000

Of course. Nowadays it’s more collecting libraries and source code from the net (which goes mostly unused), but there are a number of books I bought out of the same reason. At least I have learned some things from reading them.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:04:36 +0000

I am so guilty of this. I usually by books, games and movies way before I have started a project and most of the time they end up unused because I start something else…