brandon.furtwangler blog

My SPOT watch buddy Henry recently blogged possibly the greatest post ever. I can’t begin to explain it, so just read it. NOW!

I keep hearing about Skype. It’s a program that lets you make free “internet phone calls” or call from a computer to a real phone…but you have to pay. I guess I don’t get what’s the big deal. I’m not going to pay for the real phone calls, so how is this […]

I recently got together with a few fellow CSE students here at MSU and wrote up a proposal for Microsoft’s smart watch RFP program. It seemed like a long shot, but what do you know….they accepted it! I’m not going to go into details yet, but I will say that we’re planning on […]

I’ve been MIA for the past week because I’m crazy busy with grad classes. Not too much time for after-hours projects right now, but I do have a few ideas of things I’m going to work on when I get a chance.
1) Finish writing a managed wrapper for Novodex (physics sdk)
2) Write a little […]

My demo video is done, and the source to demo room is as done as it will ever be, so it’s time to finally post them. Before I do that, I want to say a few things about the whole experience.
First of all, I have a new appreciation for everything I see on TV […]

Jason Olson recently announced that he’s starting a new site on gamedev about game development with .NET. There isn’t much content up there yet, but that’s bound to change. I’ll be checking back soon to see how things progress.
Just last week several people asked me where I learned 3d graphics, and I usually […]

I had planned on posting the source to “demo room” last week, but things have been delayed a bit. MSU is having a job fair next week, so I’ve been spending extra time getting my shit together. My buddy Dan Lash and I just finished a resume updating session, and I’m working on […]