I'm feeling pretty good about this release; it really feels like the pieces are finally coming together. Pretty much all placeholders here for graphics and such, but I think the gameplay is pretty clear at this point. I've added increasingly difficult levels, a simple power-up to boost your ammo, lives, and of course a high score table. The high score table gave me a lot of trouble; I probably should have just got the one for $25, but free was hard to pass up. I had to modify it extensively to get it to work, and I'm still not very comfortable with it; but it SEEMS to work. Try it out and let me know what you think!

What Arcade-games did you use to play? When did you play them? And where? In the Arcades or somewhere else?

Interghost did a great video on it and made it a TAG:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PZ7CJ1uC9s
This is my response to it. If you don't know Interghost yet - please go check out his video and channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Interghost

Today I spent most of my time working with Blender. The first order of the day was to learn all about lighting. Blender has a dizzying amount of options for this, but I'm not even sure I'll need any of it so I didn't spend a lot of time here. UNITY has its own lighting system, and I'm not sure to what extent I'll be able to use lights I make in Blender anyway, but I figured the knowledge would be transferable in a general sense. In any case, it is fascinating (and addictive) to just experiment with all the lighting options and see how they affect shading and such. You can really get some nice shading effects with different kinds of lighting. Here's just an example:
Cube with Lights
The next chapter was on Character Animation, and the author pointed out two different people-making tools you can use. Both were free in terms of cost: Make Human and Daz Studio. While you can try to make humans from scratch, these tools essentially give you an interface similar to those seen in games like Skyrim where you can adjust and tweak your face, nose, etc. The exciting part is that you can export your creations into Blender. I may know next to nothing about modeling and animation, but even I can use these interfaces and my combat mode looks a helluva lot more feasible.

Invertion: Is that GLADOS?I love Portal, and I love a good platformer. What do you get when you combine the two? Invertion! Go check out this awesome free game by my friends at HighUp Studio, game developers from Bogota, Colombia! My good friend David Arcila did the great artwork. The music is also excellent. I love it! Go play it now.

Dungeons & Dragons: Order of the Griffon for the NEC TurboGrafx-16 (via Retro Uprising)I'd like to provide the latest update to my list of working emulator and simulator sites for various platforms and games. All of these enable play directly within your browser, so there's no sticky business of downloading software and finding the necessary game files to get it all going. These are all great sites and we should all show our support. This is the "December 2011" edition of the list and, naturally, I'd love to keep adding to it, so suggest away. Here goes:

• 2600online.com - Play various Atari 2600 Video Computer Systems games
• Another World (aka, Out of this World; 1991)
• Armchair Arcade - Our own hosted simulations
• Atari.com - Play select Atari 2600 and Atari arcade favorites
• BBC Micro News - Parrot - News stories and a speech synthesizer directly from a cluster of BBC Micros
• c64s.com - Play various Commodore 64 games
• Classic Atari games on IGN
• Spacewar! (1962) emulation
• First-Person Tetris (NES version)
• Freearcade.com (Scott Adams section) - Play various Scott Adams/Adventure International text adventures
• Google Pac-Man - The popular browser-based re-imagining of the classic arcade game
• Play Halo 2600 - Atari 2600 interpretation of the popular FPS
• Virtual GameBoy - Play a huge selection of GameBoy and GameBoy Color games
• JEMU - Emulate and play on the Acorn BBC Model B, Amstrad CPC464, Dick Smith VZ-300, Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, Sinclair ZX80, and Sinclair ZX81
• JPC x86 PC emulator - Play classic DOS games like DOOM and Linux demos
• JSGB - GameBoy emulator
• JSVecX - Play GCE/Milton Bradley Vectrex games in your browser
• Mocha - The Java Color Computer Emulator - Emulation of the Radio Shack Color Computer
• nintendo8.com - Play Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)/Famicom games
• Pica Pic - Play amazing simulations of classic LCD and related handhelds
• Play Infocom Adventures Online
• Retro Uprising - Play a wide range of videogame and computer systems (arcade, Atari, Coleco, Nintendo, Sega, etc.) in your browser and through a custom software interface
• Sandy White's Ant Attack
• Sarien.net - Play Sierra adventure games
• SC-3000 Survivors - Play Sega SC-3000/SG-1000 games
• Timex/Sinclair 1000 Emulator
• Virtual Apple 2 - Play Apple II and IIGS games
• Virtual Atari - Play Atari 2600 games
• vNES - Play Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)/Famicom games
• World's Biggest PAC-MAN - The World's Biggest PAC-MAN (really)