Indie game post-mortems
The RakNet creator talks about his space MMO game and all the good and bad in his blog. I always applaud those who try…
Metanet talks about Robotology and N+
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Speech recognition SDKs
For developers looking to add speech into their games, there are two I’d recommend using:
CMU’s Sphinx (especially version 2)
And potentially a wrapper:
BTW Speech to visemes (i.e lipsync creation) is different task and their exists many more tools and APIs for that.
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Taboo topics… salaries
An Ann Landers-like answer to a simple question “I just found out that my co-worker is being paid more than I am for the same job. What should I do?” bothered me.
Shannon Jackson said, “First and foremost, it is considered unprofessional to be discussing salaries with your co-workers. If a co-worker approaches you with a salary discussion, state clearly that you are not prepared to have that conversation, and that you understand salaries are expected to be kept confidential. Approaching your manager and stating you know your co-worker makes more than you may have serious consequences for both you and your colleague.”
I understand in North America, talking about salaries is even more taboo than discussing favourite sex positions in the workplace, but can we please stopping being prudes? The main reason for businesses keeping salaries private is to reduce wage inflation. If you find out your co-worker is making more than you (he or she is the boss’ pet), you’ll ask for a raise… Often, our egos are attached to the size of our wages. Not a good thing – to be honest.
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World Series of Video Gaming – Toronto 2007
I recently read about this is in a local newspaper – crazy how mainstream Guitar Hero has become and how respectable game-playing is:
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