MetaMinus

Here we are, ending the alpha phase of our project.   The pressure to close all unfinished features before the end of the month was palpable. On my way back from a meeting that occurred at the far end of the office building, I noticed a guy I knew staring at a strange editor filled with curves and some kind of dynamic variables panels. Since I never saw that tool before, I got curious and moved closer to him. Quickly, I noticed that theses graphical elements were not part of the main editor at all, but they had the same recognizable WPF styling and made them fit almost seamlessly. The UI looked quite nice actually.   "Hey man! What is this new tool? Never saw that one before." "Ohh! hi! Euhhh, hmm... it's etherium." "WuuuutT!?!!!"    /turningred     ...to be continued

  Here we are, as usual, a few good friends and colleagues gathered together on a sweet little terrace nearby the office, sipping on a beer while ranting about random gamedev topics and few crazy ideas. A network savvy colleague is now telling us that he's been putting together some old PC parts to "mine" bitcoins. At that time, Bitcoins were "trading" for about 100$ a coin, and our "mining" friend proudly shouted that he had accumulated almost 50 bitcoins with his homemade setup. That's about 5000$ created from dirty old beige cases stuffed with cat hair and dust mites. "My machines are now casually generating a constant flow of digital money from home, while I'm here, siting with you, enjoying a soothing pint of Blanche de Chambly and eating deliciously cheesy nachos. :)" ...