WWWest-Online Development Blog

Back in the day, when a company (or an individual) wanted to make a game, they’d usually choose a platform and make it. When a game console company (Nintendo, Sega, etc.) made a game (or payed for one to be made), it was for their systems. You didn’t see “Super Mario Brothers” on any system that didn’t have “Nintendo” written on it.

Nowadays, that isn’t the case. Many games are made by  third parties, and though politics and various deals can still result in a game being released for only a single platform, most games are released for at least two. Actually, since the PC is now as good a “console” as others (well, maybe not as good), even games released by Microsoft for their XBox, are released on another “platform” as well . Anyway, I digress.

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Today we’d like to introduce another member of the WWWest-Online team, who goes by the name of Dikla. Dikla is a graphic designer and illustrator, and has been doing that for a living for several years now (though she’s been doing it for fun since forever. That’s right, before dinosaurs). Read the rest of this entry »

When I check the timeline I look at every year to see that everything is written correctly. While doing this, I noticed that 1846 saw the patenting of the pneumatic tire, and I thought it would be interesting to check a little about it.

A short trip back to the roots: Before the tire there was the wheel. The invention of the wheel is one of man’s greatest achievements, and is attributed to ancient Mesopotamia, in the 5th Millennium BC.

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