Gravitards for Windows Phone 7

Today, Gravitards has been finally released for Windows Phone 7. “Gravitards is a skill-based game with amazing graphics and real physics, where you have to drive a ball through many different levels, reaching the end zone (or “gravitard”), without dropping it, while collecting rings distributed all...

3D-O-Matic. Is it feasible to make our favorite shows in 3D?

There has been several attempts to make cartoon TV shows in 3D, or look realistic. For instance, Simpsons’ first attempt looked something like this: It was really fun, but didn’t actually capture the essence of Homer, which for me is nothing more than this: Many artists have tried to do so since...

Simax Forklift Simulator

We are about to release the next Simax simulator. It´s the new Forklift Simulator, a full-featured, next-gen training simulator to learn all the concepts needed to drive and work with a forklift, including basic management of the device´s features, load handling and distribution, driving in every possible...

Using DirectoryInfo.GetFiles returns more files than expected (or how to get exactly what you need, with an exact extension match lookup)

Introduction I didn’t noticed this behavior of the GetFiles() method until now, I must admit. It’s something not frequent to see, but might happen. And it’s dangerous. As this post, and the MSDN library itself state, when you use the GetFiles() method with a search wildcard that includes the asterisk symbol, and you include a 3 characters long extension (like *.xml, or *.jpg), the GetFiles() method...

Enabling/Disabling properties at runtime in the PropertyGrid

Many people knows about the benefits of using PropertyGrids in user interfaces. You probably know about the System.ComponentModel namespace, and how it can help you customizing the behavior of classes and their properties when edited through controls like the PropertyGrid. One of the attributes you can find in that namespace is the ReadOnly, which will make a property to be read only and appear in...