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	<title>JustinFic.com - Justin Ficarrotta</title>
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	<description>Hail to the Fic, Baby!</description>
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		<title>Humble Beginnings, the Loot: Part 4 of 4</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/06/30/humble-beginnings-the-loot-part-4-of-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At long last, the conclusion to my epic 4 piece blast-to-the-past featuring games I created when I was between 7 and 8 years old. It&#8217;s fitting that I stumbled on all of these, right before starting work as a designer/programmer for Freeverse. Deciding between staying as a pure indie developer and taking a full time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humble Beginnings, The Loot: Part 3 of 4</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/05/26/humble-beginnings-the-loot-part-3-of-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 23:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yo! So here&#8217;s the third set of games from my library of old-ass games I made as a kid. It&#8217;s been awhile in posting- I&#8217;ve been busy beginning work at Freeverse and finding an apartment in NYC. That&#8217;s a whole different rant, but the end result is I found a sweet place in the Upper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humble Beginnings, the Loot: Part 2 of 4</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/05/03/humble-beginnings-the-loot-part-2-of-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 21:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, while preparing to move to NYC I dug through a pile of old Mac floppy disks and found a bunch of old &#8220;games&#8221; I made as a kid (7-8 years old, almost twenty years ago) by drawing their title screens in a paint program called Modern Artist. This is the second of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On XBLA trends and Emotion in Gameplay</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/30/on-xbla-trends-and-emotion-in-gameplay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/30/on-xbla-trends-and-emotion-in-gameplay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m noticing a trend- I wouldn&#8217;t call it disturbing, just disappointing, on XBLA. I&#8217;m talking about games that really should be awesome, but for some reason or another, they&#8217;re simply not. I first noticed it with Assault Heroes&#8211; it&#8217;s still a fun game, but it falls flat when you compare it to the other arena [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edit Fuck Beaten by Bruce Morrison</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/30/edit-fuck-beaten-by-bruce-morrison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m back in Las Vegas now, after bookending 12-13 hours of walking around NYC with redeye flights. One thing that&#8217;s painfully obvious (literally) is that I&#8217;ll have to get used to walking everywhere again. My legs are complete mush. Wads of cookie dough. 
And, as Bruce Morrison so effectively predicted, I got some bitching to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humble Beginnings, the Loot: Part 1 of 4</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/27/humble-beginnings-the-loot-part-1-of-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/27/humble-beginnings-the-loot-part-1-of-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So as promised, I&#8217;ve selected the 20 best &#8220;games&#8221; out of my childhood stash. These were created by me&#8211; the dates of creation are all in &#8216;88 and &#8216;89, which means I was 7 or 8 years old. I didn&#8217;t know how to program at the time (I picked up Pascal a few years later) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humble Beginnings</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/26/humble-beginnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past week or so I&#8217;ve been slowly going through all my stuff, trying to cull off everything that won&#8217;t have some definite use or purpose in New York. I&#8217;m scheduled to move in about a week, so I really should be hauling ass but it&#8217;s always an emotional process and I&#8217;m kind of lagging.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fic in the City, Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/17/fic-in-the-city-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/04/17/fic-in-the-city-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate being at the point where every update I make begins with me apologizing for the lack of updates recently. So this is the last time I&#8217;m doing that. Sorry for the lack of updates.
So a lot has happened. First, and most importantly, Freeverse has offered me a job back in New York City, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FicEngine: Tilemaps</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/02/17/ficengine-tilemaps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/02/17/ficengine-tilemaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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The latest addition to the FicEngine is the concept of Tilemaps. Tilemaps were used extensively in old-school NES and SNES games, and are still a part of the hardware of the Nintendo DS. Many platformers still rely on Tilemaps. 
What is a Tilemap? At its most basic, it&#8217;s a method of constructing levels by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossroads</title>
		<link>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/02/08/crossroads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinfic.com/2008/02/08/crossroads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey all, so it&#8217;s been awhile since my last post and a lot has happened.
Macworld 2008 happened mid January, and it was good times. Got to see the Freeverse guys again, which is always fun. Between the unveiling of the MacBookJones, rocketing Freeverse up from butt-naked last to a healthy second place in the annual [...]]]></description>
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