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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0100

Dear Esther

by The Chinese Room

Yesterday and today I played a game I will never forget. It’s a game you feel in your very own sensibility.

Dear Esther is a very simple game which is more an interactive and entertaining experience.

The game focuses on the story of a man who lived a tragedy, losing everything important to him. You’ll live, following his voice and mastered metaphors, his journey to redemption.

I think it can not be easily compared to an usual game because it just looks more like a movie. You won’t really change the story by your choices, in fact you don’t choose anything. You simply walk.

It is the kind of game that needs to be prepared by shutting down all distractions and getting some great and loud headphones. Then you can enjoy the game.

Just focus on the narrator’s voice and live this history, feel all the sadness.

The only thing you can do in this game is walk. Yes this is it, walk. No jumps, no run, no action, nothing else than walking. I think it has been done this way so you were forced to listen and understand the plot. Because apart of this plot. This game has no sense and feels like a demo of beautiful

You’ll be amazed by the journey not only because of the visual appearance of the many places you’ll visit, but also by the ambience coming from the music and all the detailed sounds of wind or water. Moreover knowing it has been done using the Source Engine which is not a so powerful 3D engine is incredible, it’s obvious when you see a work of this quality that more than technical performance a very good art direction can blow your mind and eyes !

It almost feels like poetry.

Dear Esther is a contemplative piece of art.

For 7€, it seems like it’s a very fair deal compared to some poor games at 70€.

Also if you buy the game… Think about getting the soundtrack by Jessica Curry on iTunes. It’s worth the price !

"In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship..."

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:04:02 +0200

“In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil’s might,
Beware my power… Green Lantern’s light !”

- Green Lantern’s Oath

Regexp for Supinfo

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:39:48 +0200

Hi guys !

This is a post for my classmates and all people studying at Supinfo. So let’s talk in french.

Bon mes chers amis de Supinfo, vous avez peut-être remarqués comme moi que les planning mis à disposition par Supinfo sur Campus-Booster ont un soucis de taille.
Ces planning sont en UTC ! WTF pour une école française je sais…

Bref c’est hyper saoulant sachant que tout mes logiciels sont en GMT+1 y’a un superbe décalage de deux heures sur tout mon planning CHOUETTE.

Permettez-moi donc de vous présenter la REGEX QUI VA BIEN !

^(X-CALSTART|X-CALEND|CREATED|DTEND|DTSTAMP|DTSTART|LAST-MODIFIED):(\w*)Z(\s)$

Cette première chaîne va matcher les lignes avec des dates finissant par Z (UTC).

$1:$2$3

Cette seconde ligne va vous permettre de reconstruire la chaîne sans le Z.

Du coup votre logiciel de calendrier (iCal, Outlook, WHATEVER…) utilisera votre fuseau horaire par défaut.

Pour faire la substitution, vous pouvez utiliser tout éditeur qui supporte la recherche/remplacement avec des Regex.
Sous Mac, il y a Espresso, Coda, Textmate… Sous Windows, Notepad++…
Sinon si vous voulez pas vous faire chier y’a des multitudes de sites qui vous permettent de le faire.
Et si vous êtes des bons nerds faites le vous même ça prend 5 min avec PHP.

Voilà have fun !

Easily create soft shadows for your UILabels

Sun, 08 May 2011 15:13:00 +0200

Hi everybody bonjour !

So I was wondering how I could do to make an UILabel cute in my UITableView headers.
I then decided that a soft shadow would be great to achieve this.

But oops. You can only make not blurred shadows with the shadow* properties from UILabel.

The trick here is to use Quartz 2D and the layer property of your UILabel (UIView subclasses gets it).

label.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0; // Pretty self explanatory
label.layer.shadowRadius = 2.0; // Your softness :p
label.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor; // Color of the shadow
label.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0, 2.0); // Offset of the shadow

You could also use a UILabel subclass and CGContextSetShadowWithColor() but it’s way more complicated. (Well not really but we don’t care :P)

Also please note that this code is only compatible with iOS > 3.2.

See ya !

Motha' focka DISC !?

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:39:00 +0200

Ohaithar !

Today I’m gonna talk about a game I recently discovered thanks to my friend @Vahire. It’s a fast paced retro styledarcade game that will drive you crazy… SUPER CRATE BOX !

Concept is fairly simple, you’re a little random character which only ability is to move, jump and more important SHOOT. Your mission, if you accept it, is to catch a maximum amount of boxes in the level. Simple ? Not sure !

There are a lot of enemies (big, little or ghost, those guys can be peaceful or angry) popping from the roof and they sure will try to get in your way.

Ok so you can actually move quickly shoot the enemies with your gun. But when you pickup a box, what happen ? Well your weapon change, and it’s the most important and more scarying about this game. You’ll say “Why ?”… My friend you can’t imagine the pain of the dual pistols… Or worse… The freakin’ disc gun !

You’ll certainly say that dual pistols are cool… But trust me, shitty firepower won’t get you out from some crap situations. Fairly cool is the disc gun ? WHAT ?! This shitty weapon will kill you like 95% of the time you’ll use it because the disc will bounce back in your head (I personnaly try to never shoot with it…).

Now… Why would you play it ? Hum my friend trust me it’s super addictive, moreover there are 3 levels with 3 difficulties. Each difficulty bring you to a newer level of nightmare. And sure Ambush will drive you crazy as hell, in this mode monsters can pop out EVERYWHERE.

Moreover in each difficulty and level you can get unlocks by getting a certain amount of boxes and you want those unlocks (from laser gun to ninja character).

Oh I didn’t talk about the music in the game, each level has its own 8bit very cool soundtrack helping you to keep moving. You’ll love it. The Soundtrack is free and available on Super Crate Box website.

So now go download it (IT’S FUCKING FREE !!) and enjoy the 0 crate game over in ambush mode DAMN…

(Oh did I mention it’s Mac Os X and Windows compatible ? YES THE DEVELOPER IS AMAZING)

Website : SuperCrateBox.com
Developer : Vlambeer.com

"I know that impossible anger strangling the grief until the memory of your loved one is just poison..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:06:03 +0100

“

I know that impossible anger strangling the grief until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your veins.

And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you’d be spared your pain.

———————————

Je connais cette insupportable colère qui étouffe le chagrin au point que le souvenir de l’être aimé n’est plus qu’un poison dans tes veines.

Et un jour tu te surprends a souhaiter que la personne aimée n’ai jamais existé, pour être libéré de ta peine.

”

- A quote from Batman Begins meaning a lot to me…

Ecoutez moi ça !

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:42:00 +0200

It’s been some week now that Ecoute.app has been released into the Mac Os X Software Jungle. I’m proud of the little work I did on it with Louka… He’s just an amazing developer !

Ecoute is an awesome iTunes controller that works without iTunes launched, it reads the music database of iTunes directly and use QuickLook, the Leopard technology, to get informations about the file. It has an amazing UI that reproduce the iPhone music player feeling.

So let me introduce you Ecoute in some screenshots :

Album View

Cover View with controls and now with Lyrics just like on your iPhone !

List view accessible from the cover view.

You can even watch videos (Quicktime support so Subtitles are correctly activated) ;)

As you could see this is an awesome software =) Really awesome…

GO BUY IT FOR 10 BUCKS !!

Working for a wolf…

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:58:00 +0200

As I said yesterday… My week end was nice, Cylia was just amazing as ever… But it’s time to go back to work.

But before go back to work, I decided to work a little for my friend Louka (‘cause he asked me). He’s a Cocoa developer and needed help to make some content for a soon available app.

So I made some things for it. Here’s an example :

I’m currently working on variations and other ideas… I think I will make cool things with this app…

Now I’m gonna go to bed maybe because I’m working in ~~five~~ four hours… Sigh…

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not quite,..."

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +0200

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
The world you desire can be won.
It exists. It is real. It is possible. It’s yours.”

- Ayn Rand, from “Atlas Shrugged”