How To Write a College Admissions Essay

The Atypical College Essay – unedited from 2001, for @blobyblobyblob, since he asked. Author’s note: the following is my response to one of the essay prompts on the undergraduate application of Stanford University. Applicants were instructed to choose something important to them, take a picture of it, paste this picture into a box on the application, and then proceed to write about a thousand words on the significance of the item or people within the picture. I included a picture of a pineapple. This is not a joke or the result of a creative writing assignment. This is, verbatim, the actual …More

Setting up for the ROBLOX RALLY

Almost 1000 players descending on the Exploratorium tomorrow. When I joined ROBLOX, there were less than 1000 players total.

Epic Places Are Coming

July 12, 2011
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Epic Places Are Coming

DUN DUN DUN

Building the BEAST

May 30, 2011
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Building the BEAST

We needed a fast machine for video recording on short notice at work, so I built one this weekend. With the exception of the RAID controller, plugging everything together and configuring it was pretty easy. It makes no sense to …More

    The highest score in Wordfall that I have ever seen.

John’s GDC Talk Hit List

February 27, 2011
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Make sure you hit the talk that the EVE Online guys are giving Thursday at 4:30. It’s always great. Also, I hear that John Shedletsky guy has some interesting stuff to say about Tracking Player Engagement and Radically Improving Monetization. …More

Free pool of Internet IPv4 addresses has now officially depleted. The IANA on February 3rdallocated the final five blocks (also referred to as “/8s”) of IPv4 address space to the five RIR (Regional Internet Registries) communities. The full addressable range …More

I’m looking for a small group (~10) of people to help test the upcoming ROBLOX DP API. When made public, this API will let place creators save and load data from lua scripts. We expect this feature to unlock exciting …More

Online Dating is Hilarious

January 29, 2011
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Online Dating is Hilarious
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Shadow Demo and Some Whale Hunting

Ambient shadows look best when you have a ton of moving objects in a scene. Otherwise you might as well be baking lightmaps. Here’s a fun demo I threw together. (embedded video – click to expand)

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