Daniel 'MaTachi' Jonsson

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Third game completed – Slashat: The Game

bannerDuring March for One Game A Month I made something less serious. It’s called Slashat: The Game and you can find more information about it here.

I’m pretty sure that I will try to make something in C++ with SDL and possibly OpenGL for April. Mainly because I would like to get learn more low-level programming. But I also can’t get over that Java feels wrong for making games. Wish me good luck – I guess it will be needed!

Podcasts I Listen To

I thought I should list podcasts that I’m following and listen to.

English podcasts

  • Linux Action Show: Weekly video show about Linux from Jupiter Broadcasting. Chris Fisher and Bryan Lunduke were for long the hosts for this show, but nowadays do Chris host it along with Matt Hartley. One of my favorite podcasts.
  • TechSNAP: Another podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting, with Chris Fisher and Alan Jude. This is about computer and Internet security for tech interested people and sysadmins.
  • TuxRadar: Podcast from the people who are doing the magazine Linux Format. Another really great Linux podcast.
  • Ubuntu UK Podcast: Podcast from the Ubuntu UK LoCo team.
  • Pure Decking: From Galaxy 15 Radio that covers technology, Internet and privacy news. Not very serious but nonetheless very entertaining.
  • Shoot The Noise: Also from Galaxy 15. This is very, very non-serious but also entertaining. Dunno really what its overall topic is, but the typically make fun of and rant on technology related news.
  • mintCast: “The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux.”. I haven’t used Linux Mint for over a year, but they talk about a lot more than only Mint related stuff. Sometimes they cover topics like audio on Linux, how rolling distros work etc.
  • Off The Hook: Radio show that is aired in New York City every week and later put online on their website. Most often they talk about security, privacy and Internet news.
  • Stuff You Should Know: Podcast about how different stuff works and such from HowStuffWorks. Every episode has its own topic that they explain and talk about. I’m not following this very heavily, but I listen when they cover anything of interest.
  • TechStuff: Another podcast from HowStuffWorks. However, this one covers only tech related topics. Not following this very heavily either.
  • Hanselminutes: The episodes are very often about Windows related topics, which don’t really interest me. But once in a while there are other episodes, like this one where Jono Bacon is interviewed about his book The Art Of Community.
  • Giant Bombcast: Gaming podcast. The episodes are regularly about 3 hours long and they hosts are pretty slow/derail a lot, so I do only listen to it when I have a lot of silent time and nothing more interesting to listen to.
  • Blender Podcast: I’m not a Blender user, but I find this one pretty interesting. They often interview Blender people who have worked on Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Sintel and/or other open video projects. Occasionally they also talk with Blender developers.

Swedish podcasts

  • Slashat: Podcast that covers the last 7 days of tech news. Most often are the picked news items about Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple etc.
  • Cocktailpartyeffekten: This doesn’t come out very regularly and the hosts have told themselves that they don’t want to reveal what the podcast is all about. But they are most often speculating and philosophizing about games.
  • Overkligt: A newly started podcast about unreal stuff, such as games, TV series and movies. The hosts are the well-known people Victor Leijonhufvud, Christer Engström and Johan Hallstan.
  • Tack För Kaffet: Comedy podcast. Three dudes who do their best to entertain and talk a lot of trash. It’s often very hard not burst out laughing.
  • Obiter Dictum: This one covers popular culture.
  • Skillpod: Skillpoint is a small Swedish gaming site, and they put out a variety of podcast episodes about the site, indie games and such.

Some podcast recommendations

podcastWith my summer work I got like 4-6 hours each working day when I’m working alone and got time to listen to podcasts and music. And with that much time to listen to podcasts, I have a pretty neat list of nice podcasts, which I’m going to list down below:

I think that you can find all of this series on iTunes too.

EDIT 13 Aug. -10: Added three podcasts that I forgot.

Anime World Order Podcast

On my work as janitor I have a lot of time when I’m working alone, and therefore I got a lot of time (approximately 4-6 hours per day) to listen to music and podcasts. So, every morning I start my computer to find and download some podcasts from iTunes (even if I don’t like Apple).

Today I downloaded a podcast called Anime World Order, which is hosted by three geeks that seem to know everything about manga and anime. It’s fun to listen to and I like to hear theirs interesting thoughts about different anime & manga related subjects. I recommend you to check it out!