Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr.

Fixing bad colors on 2011 iMac + MacOS Mojave (Updated)

So, it was the end of the line for my 27″ 2011 iMac.  After 7 years of service, the new OS (MacOS 10.14 “Mojave”) wasn’t going to be able to be installed on the old faithful.  There’s some tech reasons for that – Apple moved to minimum standard for graphics cards for their system (they …

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Video Games Being Socially Acceptable (IE, Cool.)

Just got off the phone with The Wichita Eagle for an interview about how gaming has changed into something “cool” (Basic premise – there’s more too it than that.) One of my things I realized when he asked me about it, and I told him this, was that it’s actually a cyclic thing. Games have …

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Internships

Our Video Game Development Internship Program With Butler Community College IT Institute Starting March 2016, we began accepting internships through Butler Community College for video game development.  While the paperwork for the Internship that Butler provides gives some information, it’s nowhere near as in-depth as I feel it should be before someone applies for the internship, along …

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Deconstructing a Classic: Jumpman, Part 1

I have a serious pet peeve: sequels and classic game reboots (or even just re-using the name for something only loosely in common with the original.) for instance, let’s take a quick look at the history of Pac-Man. Pac-Man had a very specific sort of DNA in its gameplay.  With Pac-Man, there’s a very specific, …

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