Friday, February 06, 2009

Agile development and project management

Few months ago, I was looking for a simple way to organize my tasks and keep track of my work across the multiple projects I am working on.
I didn't find anything suitable at once so I just resorted to using post-its.

Then yesterday, a friend sent me a link to the software they just adopted at their company.
It's an agile development and project management tool:
http://www.rallydev.com

We hear a lot about agile development these days, specially in the video games industry (most of the time combined with extreme programming).
I never really took a look at such a tool, even though we're using scrums ourselves.

So I subscribed and am using it for my daily tasks. After playing around with it for a day (learning and planning tasks for next week), it looks quite powerful and useful though maybe a bit overkill in my case (many tasks across unrelated projects)
If it proves to be really worth it, I might pitch it to my boss for our projects - I only hope for them that they have a Japanese version :)

Monday, February 02, 2009

Fat Cat and his best friend, Owl

I stumbled upon this shoot'em up game and I have to say, I'm a fan now.
You control Owl with the mouse and Fat Cat with the arrows on your keyboard.
Owl is pretty much invicible and has to lead Fat Cat to safety.

The gameplay, while basic (move/shoot for each character) takes all its "challenge" when having to control both correctly.
It's fairly simple, not difficult if you are used to keyboard/mouse combo and shoot'em up games.

Level design is quite simple as well and once you get used to it, it's easy to play through.
However, it's still a refreshing game for those like me who crave for 16-bits style graphics and soundchip music.




Games at Miniclip.com - Fat Cat
Fat Cat

Get the Cat safely through the levels.

Play this free game now!!