The Construct

I love using mind maps to organize information. Been using FreeMind for quite sometime now to help me throw in ideas for UIs and IAs that I typically work on. Really excellent for solo-flight brainstorming sessions.

Here’s a sample of a mind map for a online soccer game concept. Click on the image for the larger version (870KB download):

The problem with people with repressed childhoods (like me) is that we tend to overcompensate when we finally gain some independence and get some spare change from our wee salaries. I guess it runs in the family too. I remember my dad buying me an airsoft pistol only for him to play with it more than I had. (Oh yeah, he’ll be dead for eight years now in a few days.)

Anyway, people have been overly critical of my extreme miserliness. I rarely buy stuff and never spend a cent I wouldn’t earn back immediately or in a bad investment (not that I haven’t made a few, and surely, these drove me to wits’ end). Spending, for me, is a sin. My greatest luxury has always been treating my Dearest to something. I rarely buy clothes, gadgets, other effects and doohickeys for myself.

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Pinoys be proud! Anino Mobile for won an award at the International Mobile Gaming Awards. Their entry Anima Wars won the Best Use of Connectivity award Barcelona, Spain.

Here’s some link love to the Game Developers Association of the Philippines and the news article on Hackenslash.

Shifting to some tech discussion, pardon for the shift in focus.

I have always been a fan of sports games in the PC. And ever since I got hooked in them, I always bought EA Sports titles. Over the years, EA Sports games had their ups and downs whether they be on gameplay, graphics, and the occasional bugs here and there.

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