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Not every game idea becomes an actual game. In fact, most game ideas don't even make it to the drawing board. However, these ones did. While the ideas have been abandoned for various reasons, they still show some interesting ideas that I would like to see in other games at some point.

These design documents are offered for educational purposes. I still retain all rights to them (and that includes distributing them!) and may yet come back and attempt to implement one or more of the games described herein. If you'd like to talk about them, however, feel free to give me a shout.

This was my entry for the 2007 NaNoWriMo. It clocked in at 7807 words, far short of the goal of 50,000.

There's still a lot of work to do, and it's on my writing TODO list. Read, and enjoy!

Many websites feature a page filled with links to other, mostly related websites. Generally, these links pages are divided into various categories, sometimes descending into two, three, or more levels of categorization. While Drupal is able to do this with the appropriate modules, there is no out-of-the-box method for putting all those links onto a single page.

In this article, I will demonstrate the method that I used to create a hierarchical Links page for a Drupal 5 based website. The only modules (outside of Core) that are required are Views, Links, and Links Weblink (included in the previous). This article assumes knowledge of PHP and Views creation and editing.

One of the great new features in Microsoft® Windows® Vista is the Game Explorer. The Game Explorer (or GameUX, as taken from the C++ header file for the component) makes it easy for Vista users to quickly and easily find the game they want to play or administer. Unfortunately, when Microsoft released XNA Game Studio™ Express, support to add XNA projects to Game Explorer was not added.