Technology: it is sometimes hard to imagine that the human race’s use of technology began with the conversion of our surrounding natural resources into simple tools.

.: Technology of the Past : Simpler… Deadlier? :.

From using sticks and bones to help mash up our food, we’ve continued the path to empower us to create a global communications medium, to take photos from the edge of our solar system, and to build tools that allow us to express anything we can imagine…

• New Site Updates; With the pending release of Make Bouncy Bouncy, we took some time to update various aspects of the site. Among the updates, we’ve launched a new home page celebrating our extensive game industry experience. Following that, the About Us page has at long last been updated to include details & some images from our past work.

• More site updates; the ByDesign Games Forums has officially launched! Players can now give direct feedback, get specific game support, talk about upcoming games and game design ideas with a direct line to the brains here at ByDesign.

• Final misc. site updates; we’ve added lightbox support for linked images, the site should load faster due to some back-end optimizations, and we performed some misc. color usage tweaks to enhance readability. Not too shabby for a single site update eh?

• Make Bouncy Bouncy status; I’m pleased to say that Make Bouncy Bouncy, ByDesign’s new casual game with a funny name, is on track for a November release! Soon enough, you’ll enjoy to Make Bouncy Bouncy with ByDesign Games! The game’s site has yet to fully launch, only the teaser site is in place for now, but keep an eye this space for more updates as we near release.

• Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard; Attention! A Leopard is loose in the wild! That’s right, Apple has released their latest operating system cum opus, OS X 10.5 Leopard. Speaking as a designer, Apple continues to amaze with their design priorities; with Leopard, the result is a very usable and rewarding experience all without sacrificing the important base elements of stability and security. From Quick Look (oh it’s great!) to Spaces (nice implementation of an old idea) along with over 300 improvements across the board, the final analysis is that Leopard is a worthy update to a stable, secure, economical and all around pleasant operating system. After some very minor 3rd-party software updates, ByDesign is now fully a house of Leopard!

• Unity v2.0 unleashed; Not to be outdone, Unity Technologies (formerly Over The Edge Technologies) has unleashed their Unity Engine v2.0 on the masses. As you know, we’ve been working with the v2.0 technology for a couple of months, helping it mature, and I can easily say, this update was worth it. In the making for the over 3 years, v2.0 brings much in the way of delicious new features: Terrains, Networking support, the latest rendering technologies, and a whole host of other game developer goodies. Unity is our engine of choice here at ByDesign, and we’re just ecstatic that v2 is now available publicly.

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Whew! Well, that’s it for this time. Stay tuned on ByDesign Games because… “things just keep getting better & better!”