kdevine on May 14th, 2010

I am working on my Facebook game, I am currently working with the title “Cavern Hunter”, but this might change to “Dungeon Designer” or something like that. It is roughly modeled on the mechanics of another Facebook game called Exile Gods. I plan to use the same card game crafting type system but it will [...]

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kdevine on July 31st, 2009

I am have been working on a project to Archive tables to a fileserver and one of the things I needed was a way to script out all the objects that I was archiving. Adding a reference to SqlServer.SMO and SqlServer.ConnectionInfo allows you to do this: Public Function ScriptTableOrView(ByVal tablename As String, ByVal servername As [...]

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kdevine on May 4th, 2009

I had a job failure over the weekend on a SQL Server and while it gave me the job step number, it occurred to me that this maintenance task that does a DBCC CHECKDB on each database separated into separate job steps was getting difficult to manage. The issue was that as new databases were [...]

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kdevine on January 22nd, 2009

I have followed Positech Games for a while and just bought their new game, Kudos 2, on Impulse this weekend.  While the base game is fun, it has extensive modding capability and I thought I would write a quick program to allow people to mod this without editing the .csv files and referencing the mod [...]

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kdevine on January 19th, 2009

I am not sure when I decided to write out the design of this game, but it was sometime in 2008.  I wanted to make a simple game with a deck of cards, some counters and perhaps a play mat.  I came up with “Toys”.  I have attached the rules pdfs and the NanDeck files [...]

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kdevine on January 15th, 2009

So, I decided I wanted to make a game for Facebook.  "Why?" you ask…  Because, I think it will be fun.  Yep, I’m wacky that way.  Anyway, I decided to make the game based on kung-fu or martial arts in general.  You have your character and you set up active and passive training and you [...]

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