Checkered Tentacles

Hello you!
I'm not quite sure who you are, but perhaps you are one of the many folks who have been drawn in by Moon Taxi's devious new promotions.

This taxi's checkered tentacles have begun to crawl across the interwebs with postings like this one at http://writingcontests.wordpress.com. Or maybe you caught a glimpse of the taxi from over at Poets & Writers

Or perhaps it was the taxi's shiny new google adwords promotion that brought you in. Maybe you searched for something like "writing contest", "short story contest", "monologue contest" or "short story publisher". These things and more can lead you here.

A well placed $10 to google got my ad shown nearly a quarter of a million times. Which sounds awesome until you see my 0.08% click through rate.

For the devs.
Now for a little bit of game development diary type stuff. I'm still mostly appreciating XNA. I'm using Nick Gravelyn's nifty ini file parsing library, EasyConfig. I've got my depth sorting working. That let me do some nice asteroid transparency effects to reduce pop in and camera obscuring closeups. And i've written a hot little gui library which helps with resolution independent two dimensional placement of textures and text. How you like me now!?!