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Quick Shots For 11/24/2017

Quick Shots For 11/24/2017

This past week I remembered that the group Styx had a song on their Grand Illusions album called "Castle Walls". I remember listening to that song over and over again when I was a teenager, mainly because it has an instrumental bridge that sounded a lot like the theme from the movie Halloween. I promptly pulled up the song on Spotify. Terrence Koch and Spotify: Reliving childhood memories.
In the early 2000’s I was spending a lot of time in St. Augustine, Florida due to my job. It was that experience that inspired me to program Augustine, the text adventure game I wrote about elsewhere on Half Air. The… Read more...
Building A Game Library With Pocket Change

Building A Game Library With Pocket Change

Half Air life articleThere is that life concept that states when we are young we have a lot of time but not enough money to do what we really want to do, but as we get older we then have enough money, but not enough time. As a gamer, this concept is equally true, except that you can replace money with video games. Such is certainly the case with me. Going back fifteen years or more, I pretty much had to buy any game I played for full price, or at a slight discount if it was on sale. Back then that usually meant something within the $20-$40 dollar range. If a publisher gave away their game for free, it typically was either a demo or shareware, Read more...