neill silva's niche

How to choose the right game engine…

Neill Silva — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:33:13 +0000

This is one of the hardest things about game development in my eyes… Picking the right engine to develop a game on. Let me give you some background info on what I do with game development before you continue reading though. My name is Neill Silva, and I am the co-creator of PlethoraGames Studios. (http://www.plethoragames.com [...]

The top 5 reasons I choose to use Vista as little as possible.

Neill Silva — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:51:29 +0000

The next few paragraphs will be a little bit of ramblings about why I choose to run OS X over Vista at any given time. 1. Driver Support There is very little support for Vista, even though it has been out for more than a year (As far as I know). Not even Microsoft has made drivers [...]

The Newgrounds Experience

Neill Silva — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:06:26 +0000

Newgrounds.com, a website dedicated to bringing you the latest and greatest Flash games and movies, gets over 70 million unique page views a month, and has a net worth estimated over $15 million. Ever wonder why? Because it did something, and it did it good. Newgrounds was created by Tom Fulp in [...]

InstantAction is here!

Neill Silva — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:23:05 +0000

The GarageGames/IAC web hit has finally arrived in its beta form! InstantAction is a website using a specially developed web app to play games in real time on instantaction.com. All it requires is an account, Windows(For now… Its only in beta but I know Mac support will arrive soon), IE, or Firefox. Right now, if [...]

Presidential Debate Summary

Neill Silva — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:22:21 +0000

Heres a little Presidential Debate I did on the Democratic Debate on thursday. The beginning is unedited, and the rest is just what I typed as I went… But here you go! After 17 debates there are 2 democrats left from the starting 8. Obama says from the start that he or Hillary will be the [...]

PSP-2000 Slim review

Neill Silva — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:30:16 +0000

When the PSP unveiled itself in America on March 24, 2005, ten years after the release of the original Playstation and five years after the release of the Playstation 2, it sold a smashing 200,000 units at launch, and totaled about 500,000 units at the end of the first month. It was a breakthrough in [...]

How to Handle Remote Tech Support

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VMware and Parallels for Virtual Machines

chris@lockergnome.com (Chris Pirillo) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:00 GMT

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