From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Jaybot Interviewed by Just Another Mobile Monday, Part 2

August 31, 2009

Just Another Mobile Monday just released the second half of their interview with me today. You can check it out: here. The First Part was: here.
This time I discuss a bit about my music background and upcoming games from PDAmill Game Studios.
Apparently, the answers that I gave to their interview questions were so thorough that [...]

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The Lazy Man’s Way to Tokyo

August 31, 2009
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Okay, it’s September 1st (on this side of the world). I’ve been hanging out in Tokyo for far too long without posting stuff about it.
So I’ve decided over my last 20 days here to write a post each day about what I did for the day, and try to gives reasons and answers like: why [...]

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Here’s a Quick Way to Destroy your Umbrella

August 31, 2009
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Take it outside during a Typhoon in Tokyo.
Yeah, yeah, I should have known better, but it didn’t look that windy before I went outside.

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Another Typhoon, Another Manga

August 30, 2009
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Another typhoon is currently happening in the Tokyo area. This really just means a lot of heavy rain and wind. No lightning, so it’s still safe to take a bath
Recently, I picked up the manga, ‘One Piece’. It’s about a boy who wants to become a pirate . To spice things up, [...]

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New government for Japan.

August 30, 2009

Like I said this morning, today was Japanese Election day.
The preliminary results are in and it looks like my guess was right. The new government party (Democratic Party of Japan) won by a landslide. Let’s hope they can do some good for the country. Stock prices should start finally going up on the Nikkei, that’s [...]

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The Failure of Independent and Casual Games

August 30, 2009
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This is really just food for thought. I’ll also toss in some game ideas at the end I’ve always wanted to see
The Independent and/or Casual Games market is no longer casual, nor independent. I’ve known this for a few years, but I never saw how bad it affected some developers until recently. Another [...]

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Japanese Election Day is Today

August 29, 2009
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Big Day for Politics in Japan today. Depending on how people vote, it could usher in a new era of politics with less bureaucracy (the polls say the new Democratic Party is on track to win, giving the first clean change of government in 54 years) or well… it will just stay the same. So [...]

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What Everybody Ought to Know About Gypsies/Roma.

August 28, 2009
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People are recently becoming interested in the Roma (also commonly referred as Gypsies). Good. I figured it wouldn’t be too long before the English speaking world took notice of this unique race of people, since I encountered the Roma quite a bit while I was living in Hungary.
Yeah, I said race, not culture. It’s true. [...]

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Arvale: Short Tales for iPhone almost done…

August 28, 2009
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I’ve just finished editing all of the new dynamic music tracks (which resulted in over 70 files) for the iPhone version of Arvale: Short Tales, and I’ve been awake for 40 hours or so.
Oh, I never mentioned I was working on Arvale: Short Tales for the iPhone… so I guess I’ll post a bit of [...]

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Tokyo Landing Permits, Earthquakes and Typhoons

August 28, 2009
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For the record, I’ve survived three Earthquakes and one Typhoon since I arrived in Tokyo. And that was within one week.
I might have mentioned Tokyo a few times recently. As I write this, that’s where I am. It’s only temporary of course. While I wish it were permanent, life just doesn’t work out so easily. [...]

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