A whole bunch of news tidbits

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Jan 052010
 

Boy, have I neglected the blog. Here’s some stuff I said to myself, “I should blog that” that flew by.

Non-Andean Bird

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Jan 052010
 

Some of you long-time blog readers may recall a little public project of mine called Andean Bird.*

But that is not what I am writing about. Instead, I wanted to call your attention to this!

That’s a prototype by Michael Wilson, who writes

Hello there. I enjoyed your playing with your ‘Andean Bird’ prototype three years back, which was a concept I’d wanted to explore myself but never had time. I was sad to see that you didn’t continue the project. However I’ve recently had some free time to learn XNA, and I’ve made a 3D bird flight simulator that is perhaps a spiritual successor. It still needs some elements to be a playable game – sound, a ‘flight path’ to follow etc – but the simulation mechanics are working well.

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