Co-founder and director of technology @BonusXP. Worked on: Cavemania, Monster Crew, Hero Academy, Orcs Must Die, Halo Wars, Age of Empires series, AOM

Plymouth, NH
Joined October 2011
@Servogame @rhrmn @dcpottinger This is just a temporary setup until we can do a real in-game system.
"Webinar": gross word or grossest word?
If you prevent pasting passwords for "security reasons", you're doing it wrong. Looking at you, @BlizzardCS, @SquareEnix, etc.
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Stardock & the Age of Empires/Ensemble vets at @BonusXP have joined forces! Full announcement: bit.ly/1uitvwk
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"error CS0246: The type or namespace name `MonoBehavior' could not be found" -- aka "error CS0246: American using @Unity3D"
Every developer knows that the best way to fix an ailing project is to add a bunch of outside people unfamiliar with the code.
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Hey @Oracle, can you please stop installing malware with Java updates? No one wants Ask toolbar snuck onto their system.
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John Evanson retweeted
It's official! #cavemania has launched everywhere. #bestnewgame on iTunes bit.ly/156eX9g
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Ask @BonusXP CEO and #Cavemania designer/programmer @dcpottinger anything tomorrow via reddit AMA at 2pm EST: reddit.com/r/IAmA/
300 megs & 50% CPU to display a list of 140 character text comments - puts your game perf challenges into perspective.
Repeatedly waiting 15 minutes for Android builds makes Homer something something...
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@KlickTock Thanks for the mention! We're on Google Play as of earlier this week as well: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Hey @Microsoft, you know you DOESN'T have to deal with phone activation just because they updated drivers for their hard drive? Pirates.
Disc Drivin' 2.5 is out now! Adds fullscreen iPhone 5 support!
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Every time I read "midcore" I parse it as "mediocre" -- which is probably appropriate.
Hadn't heard this variation: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Finally got our Monster Crew update approved. Time for a little XCOM break!
Browser asking to allow Java Runtime is like a person handing you something foul from the fridge and saying "hey smell this, it's awful!"