A video game & software development blog by Christopher Horenstein.
My Other Sites
- Superimposition A film discussion/review site.
- Your Save Has Been Corrupted A game review site.
Blogroll
- fullyramblomatic Game reviewer Yahtzee’s blog, one of the few reviewers who looks for true quality in video game media.
- Jonathan Blow Jonathan Blow’s (creator of Braid) home page, which links to his blog and some other interesting tidbits.
Technologies
- Farseer Physics Engine An excellent physics engine for XNA.
- Mercury Particle Engine An excellent particle engine for use with XNA.
- Microsoft XNA A game development platform for Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7.
- Tiled An excellent map editor that is compatible with pretty much any technology.
- TiledLib A library for using Tiled materials with XNA projects.
Software & Services I Use
- 7-Zip Open-source compression/extraction, works excellently, and perfect customization options.
- Beyond Compare 3 An excellent diff, merge, folder comparison/sync tool.
- Dropbox A great cloud storage system.
- FreeMind A utility for creating hierarchy diagrams with excellent ease of use and export options.
- Git Extensions Git software that makes using the source control system much, much easier.
- GitHub The best free Git web hosting service I know of.
- Greenshot Fantastic desktop screenshot tool – select a portion of the desktop, and choose to copy the image to the clipboard and define where it should be saved. Very fast, very easy.
- Notepad++ The best text editor I’ve ever used.
- NUnit A great .NET unit testing framework.
- Paint.NET Excellent free Paint application, with many great features.
- TortoiseSVN The best Windows SVN client I’ve used.
- uTorrent The best torrent client I know of.
- Visual Studio The best Windows IDE I’ve used.