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2013-04-15 18:13:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm not really sure what to say about this.

2013-04-15 18:01:59 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Managed to take a photo of what seems to be a meteoroid at Ringebu during easter. By pure chance I had the camera in the right direction. It was taken at 00:56 the 31st of March, with a Nikon D3200. 20mm and 30/sec exposure at f/3.8.

2012-09-27 08:19:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Happy birthday +Google! In just seven years you're old enough to celebrate with a beer (just four years if you come to Norway).

2012-09-25 18:57:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Sharing some of my pictures from +Bergen Photowalk 2012 and the #HIRL at Nøsteboden.

2012-04-27 12:05:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I was at the Naval War: Artic Circle release party yesterday. A very well organized and fun party. Met lots of cool people and enjoyed myself.

This picture is from a demonstration of multiplayer battle in Naval War. Looked like good fun!

2012-04-02 16:10:45 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Our game Naval War: Arctic Circle is finally set for release on April 10. It's a great feeling to see the end (for now) after so many years of hard work.

Our friends at Flimmer helped us put together this action trailer composed entirely of actual gameplay footage, and the awesome music of Demonaz!

2012-03-07 18:17:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Aurora forecasts. Cool site.

http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/#

2012-02-29 08:17:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Happy (y mod 4 == 0) && ((y mod 100 != 0) || (y mod 400 ==0)) day everybody!

2012-02-19 20:54:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Debugging.

2012-02-13 11:20:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Beautiful web pages and good design may tell customers that the content is shallow and uninteresting. If it is true, this is a challenge for designers!

2012-02-12 14:28:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

There have been many attempts to visualize scale, from the tiny to the huge, but I think this is my favorite yet. Have fun moving seamlessly from the planck scale up to the size of the known universe, richly illustrated along the way.
Via +Ethan Siegel

2012-02-08 17:26:31 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Typical photographers :)

2012-02-04 10:24:03 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm sorry, your programming license is permanently revoked.

2012-02-03 18:17:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

No respawn.

2012-01-27 14:52:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Kids send a Lego man into space (sort of).

2012-01-27 08:33:33 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Pretty much describes it...

(Day in the Life of a programmer)

2012-01-23 19:00:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Online free speech advocates - bless them - hits the Scottish Organic Producers Association. #sopa #pipa

2012-01-22 20:14:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Photos taken by +Jonathan Lundkvist at the +Paradox Interactive fan meeting last Friday. There was an overwhelming number of game fans there, great fun to talk to so many gamers.

2012-01-15 19:00:25 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

In honor of the mother of all shooters.

2012-01-14 12:28:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Who would have thought that the rps guys would go overboard with naval puns? #gamedev

2012-01-12 19:12:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The picturesque narrow streets of Bergen are littered with no parking signs.
#photo #photography #bergen

2012-01-09 20:21:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

A small village I photographed on the way to Mt Haukeli a long time ago. Played around with the focus a little bit afterwards. #photo #photography

2012-01-07 13:16:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I am working on an indie shooter/puzzle game called Gravity Run, which occupies a reasonable amount of my free time.

Working on a project in my spare time can both great and frustrating. On one hand it is a excellent way to get better at what I love doing (programming). On the other hand I have a girlfriend and three kids, so when I do get time to sit down with the project it is normally after 8pm.

When I sit down to work on my project that late in the evening my brain is usually fried. This results in any non-trivial problems taking a lot longer to get resolved than they should. A non-trivial problem might block my project for days because I don’t have the mental energy to solve it until some lucky evening.

If it was my day job, or my mind was fresh, things would go a lot faster. Anyone in a similar situation that has found a solution other than guzzling energy drinks?more »

2012-01-06 19:32:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

As some of you may have noticed, I really love xkcd. Congrats to +Randall Munroe for reaching 1000 strips, and yes, I agree with stick guy that the real round number comes 24 strips later :)

2012-01-04 15:08:07 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Yes, there is an app that charges you for not going to the gym. What's next? One that puts out a contract on you if you can't quit smoking (pretty redundant I guess)?

2012-01-03 10:16:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I don't understand why people are so worked up about 2012. It's basically just another sequel.

2012-01-02 09:25:37 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

There will always be some new excuse for predicting the end of the world.

2011-12-29 16:29:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#IndieGames #GameDev #Games
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Nice read. Article about indie games pricing. And I think that players were enjoying more in games when they had to pay for them more. I mean on PC games.

2011-12-29 16:30:02 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 4 +1s)

Why didn't I think of the title "senior battle programmer"? This is a very interesting explanation of how the good people at Neocore Games handled pathfinding in a chaotic battlefield scenario. Will be looking forward to see how this works. There are quite a few triple A titles who mess up the pathfinding, and mass simulation and graphics programming methods sounds like great ideas.
#GameDev #Games

2011-12-29 16:30:22 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 1 +1s)

We're really happy with this first video dev diary for our game! Though I still can't believe they persuaded me to say that :)

#GameDev #Games #RTS

2011-12-20 16:56:17 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

All space games I ever heard about pretends Einstein never lived, and that relativity does not exist. Would it be cool to make a relativistic 4x space game? If you have some super-propulsion, you could make it to the Andromeda galaxy in around 28 years, travelling at 1g (9.81 m/s^2). However, for everything in rest compared to you, more than 2 million years have passed.... I can see a few challenges making this game work.

2011-12-20 13:32:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hilarious!

2011-12-19 20:55:16 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 6 +1s)

"DosBox" on Chrome NaCl! Neat. Hat tip +Ricki Sickenger

2011-12-18 17:15:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

"Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them." - Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011. The last of the European intellectual giants. RIP.

2011-12-16 08:52:07 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

I don't think games are in any way dead or dying, but this is still a very good and thorough dissection of social gaming at its worst.

Click a cow, anyone?

2011-12-14 14:15:48 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Pure awesomness! (Yeah, I know it is not new, but I only saw this now)

2011-12-06 18:06:11 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

Pure awesomeness! You know what? If you don't enjoy this, there's probably something seriously wrong with you, and you should seek professional help. So there.

2011-12-05 20:50:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

This would have to be, by far, one of my best lightning shots ever.. actually it's 4 shots blended together, but you know what I mean :)

Please check out the blog post: http://paulpichugin.com/201112/perth-lightning-5th-december-2011/

And if you really really like it, please re-share with your circles! Thanks :)

2011-12-05 20:46:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

So, there's no such thing as "green stars," right?

Then what's the deal with this?

Come find out!

2011-11-28 14:01:35 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

The rule: "To master any non-trivial field requires 10000 hours of dedicated practice and study." About right. To become really good at anything worthwhile, you have to hate and yet tolerate to be bad at it for close to 9000 hours or so...

2011-11-27 19:10:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Run! It's coming our way!" Ah, heck. One more from the wreck of Toftestallen wave power plant.

2011-11-27 19:03:51 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I went out to the abandoned wave power plant at Toftestallen outside Bergen, Norway, with +Kjetil Greger Pedersen today. It was too dark to take good photos, alas, but we managed to get very close to the waves created by the storm "Berit".

Toftestallen is an interesting story in itself: a wave power plant destroyed by waves. When you are there, you easily see and feel how that happened!

2011-11-25 12:45:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

We're creating the 3D model for the Royal Navy's new Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier. Hopefully this awesome unit will make it into the next-next build!

2011-11-22 19:35:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Ten Reasons Not to Become an Indie Game Developer
So true it hurts.
http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=3584

2011-11-10 14:22:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Thanks for the "Mute game notifications" button, Google

2011-11-06 21:10:35 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

When I'm googling for "search", the top hit is Bing.
On Bing, the top result is AOL's search page, which uses Google.

2011-11-06 14:16:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A number of talking heads are bemoaning the erosion of language caused by modern media and technology, like talking heads have done since stone tablets made way for papyrus. In particular, Twitter's 140 character limit is a tasty culprit for the end of literacy as we know it. It also makes for funny headlines. Too bad they didn't bother to actually check if it was true.

2011-11-04 07:49:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

There is a sweet satisfaction to download and play your own game from Steam. Even though it is still only available to devs, and soon to some select beta testers.

2011-11-02 19:45:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's not much better in Vice City, which is hardly any consolation.

2011-10-31 11:29:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Øyvind Lien created this great Naval War-themed Halloween wallpaper for us. I don't think this classic Russian warship ever looked cooler. http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?567663-Happy-Halloween-everybody-a-very-special-wallpaper-for-you!