News
09/28/2005 - Amazon Book Sales
As of today,
"Game Development with Lua" was ranked #12 in the catagory of "Game
Programming" books. Thanks to everyone that bought a copy!
For those of you that have not, what are you waiting for? Come on and help a
brother out...
08/17/2005 - Books Arrive
Mark and Paul's book is in stores! The comp copies have arrived and look great.
The cover art is different from the wrb pics, which is an improvement.
For the love of all that is good in the world,
buy a copy of "Game Development with Lua"
05/31/2005 - House for sale
Mark has been forced to put up the family home for sale. If you are in
Monmouth, IL or are moving to Monmouth (Maybe joining Monmouth College),
have a look here.
03/02/2005 - Amazon lists new book
Amazon is now taking orders for
"Game Development with Lua", A book that Mark is co-authoring with Paul
Schuytema. Work is in "crunch mode" and will make the street date of May 2005.
(YIKES! that's close!)
Also check out the
Charles River Media webiste!
02/10/2005 - SimplyID 4.0 Ships
The lastest update of the successful SimplyID product has been released. New
functionality including a very powerful image manipulation suite pulls this
product further away from the pack. Check it out at the
SimplyID website.
10/15/2004 - Health & Fitness Club Tycoon Ships!
The games just keep rolling out using J5 Technology!
Just shipped: Health
& Fitness Club Tycoon. Manage a health club by buying/placing
equipment, hiring/firing staff and lots of other methods. Bring in the
customers or go broke!
09/24/2004 - Mark at VGDS
Mark is a panelist on a number of sessions at
VGDS in Chicago.
08/10/2004 - MahJongg Master Platinum Ships!
J5 Technology continues to ship product!
MahJongg Master
Platinum, huge content fun!
07/01/2004 - Mini Golf Ships!
J5 Technology strikes again! This time it's
Ultimate Mini Golf Designer.
This is really cool, you put together blocks (Lego like) to make your own Mini
Golf courses. The game uses a realistic physics engine to simulate real world
Mini Golf Action!
06/12/2004 - Riverboat Slots Ships!
J5 Technology ships another game!
Riverboat Slots.
Antique slot machines in a rich 3D world! Beware the loan shark!
05/01/2004 - DePaul University
Joe and I attended the "Career Day
on Game Development" at DePaul University. We met with a bunch of
interesting people interested in Games and the Game Industry. I was on the
panel and had a blast. I was even able to vent some of my views on "Lifestyle
issues" and had an interesting discussion on what hiring managers are looking
for in candidates.
We are looking forward to attending more of these types of events.
03/16/2004 - SimplyID 3.0 SHIPS!
The best just got better! Simply ID 3.0 is
the hands down best ID software available. With many new features, most user
requested, the new version pulls away from the pack.
Another great job by Joe! No way could this have been possible without your
hard work!
