Welcome! This is the third version of my homepage. Hope you like it! Yes, it's the first that presents an english version (still work in progress). I'll try to put this english version as soon as i can.

Please send me an e-mail (you can find my e-mail at the bottom of the page) if you have any comments, suggestions or advice about this webpage. In case you have any questions or problems, contact me and I'll try to help.

WARNING:

There was a little change in the language settings. According to where a person accesses the site, it will display the page in a different language. People from: Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, East Timor and Portugal see the site in portuguese. People from other countries see the site in english. However, it's possible to change the language manually in the left most corner of the page.

Finally i finished this new version. This new page has some new stuff. Besides of the addition of the english version, it's also possible to change the "skin" of the page. All this is possible in the menu at the top of the page.
In order to browse correctly through this page using the "skin" feature with internet explorer you'll need to go to the options (internet options->Privacy) and change the cookies settings to "low" or "accept all cookies". I'm sorry for the inconvinience but it's a microsoft's problem, not mine. I also assure you that you'll not have any problems doing this. Cookies are not harmful to your system.

News

Monkey Island 2 Special Edition	18 Jul 2010
Yesterday I revisited the remake of a great game called Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. It brought very nice memories and I think that this new special edition is beautiful. Read more about some glitches and surprises I found while playing the game.
Orange Game for IPhone	07 Apr 2010
Orange Game is the first (of many! :)) game(s) developed by ZPX. It is a simple game but very addictive where the player has to catch as many oranges as he can. Here is the link where you can watch a video, some images and try an online demo before you buy the game in iTunes. In the name of ZPX, we hope that you have a great time and wish you good luck trying to beat the high score! :)
Don't be nervous	18 Mar 2010
Reading an interesting article about comedy in games at GDC I found something rather interesting and wanted to share it with you: Tim: When we started on Monkey Island, I don't know about Dave [Grossman], but I thought we were writing the temporary dialogue for that game. Cause we were really new, and there was a big company there with Lucasarts and George Lucas and everyone. So I was sure they'd have professionals come and write the dialogue. So we were just kind of goofing around and writing really silly dialogue. And it took the pressure off us cause we didn't sit there and wonder, "Is this good enough?" We were just making each other laugh in the office. And then, as it went on, Ron said, "No, no, no. This is the dialogue for the game." And I was like, "Oh, god." And we never wrote anything funny after that.
Monkey Island 2!	15 Mar 2010
By this time everyone knows that Monkey Island 2 is coming back this summer with a new special edition after the great success of MI:SE from a year ago. The 3 original creators: Dave Grossman, Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert reunited in the party that LucasArts gave for this event. It would be great to see them working in the ultimate sequel that was never done but it's better to keep the feet on this earth :) It's also worth mentioning that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition will come out in tha Playstation Network. After the great fun that was playing both MI:SE and Tales of Monkey Island, here we have another change to revive our memories (or if it is the case, play this wonderful game for the first time). It's a pity that it doesn't come with another Tales, or maybe we'll get them in the end of the year? :) Here are some links that I gathered in the last couple days: MI2:SE Homepage LucasArts official announcement Screenshots GDC 2010 Interview Grumpy Gamer - Ron Gilbert talking about it Official Twit More info
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!	24 Dec 2009
I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a great year of 2010!
Trinity	04 Aug 2009
It's been a long time (12 years) since I completed a puzzle but a few weeks ago I decided to buy this Trinity. You can see the progress clicking here.
Folder Creator	26 Jun 2009
A friend asked me if I knew a program that would create a range of folders from 003 to 010. I didn't know any so I decided to make one since it was pretty simple. Here you can see the result of a hour or so of work in this thing. I also included the source for those of you who might be interested.
More programming garbage	24 Jun 2009
Not that their garbage per se but I didn't have any category where to put this stuff. This time I bring you some more regular expressions to catch c++ comments and to clean up some HTML stuff. And the Ogre Exporter for Maya 2009 (32 bits version only). Enjoy!
Monkey Island is back!	02 Jun 2009
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! That's right, you are not dreaming. Ask someone beside you to pinch (or punch) you if you don't believe me. The greatest game of all time is coming back to us by the hands of LucasArts and TellTale. Not only we'll get a remake with neat features and graphics of the first adventure in the Monkey Island series, we'll also have new 5 episodes. Check the official page of the The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition: http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/ the new screenshots and a video of the people involved in the project. While at LucasArts headquarters, you can also check this related merchandise: http://store.lucasarts.com/catalog/category.xml?category_id=1301488 New series! TellTale will be continuing to deliver us great adventure games and after reviving the classic Sam and Max, they'll revive the mythic Monkey Island. We'll get 5 new episodes (http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland) starting in 7 July and it seems the "creator" itself (aka Ron) was also involved in these episodes. You can pre-order it now and if you want a discount coupon for the TellTale store, here's one: 3PD-XNB-8Z7-M2K Ron Gilbert has also commented this in his blog where he talked about some interesting things about the design/production of the first game. Check it here: http://grumpygamer.com/8280380 I thank you LucasArts and TellTale for bringing this great game to life again. (As if it was dead...)
Mini Lego	30 May 2009
The car miniatures from the last post gave me the idea to build a simple 3D application that you can see in these two links: high resolution and/or low resolution. I hope you like this interactive experience sponsored by ZPX :)
Mini Lego	30 May 2009
I had this one posted a while ago but forgot to post it to the RSS's :/ A while ago a friend of mine bought some legos of a new collection called creator. I liked a little car that came in one of these sets and started building other car models, with the pieces of this car. Now here's a challenge I propose: how many car models can you do with 10 Lego pieces? Check the link to see some :)
Papercraft	25 May 2009
You all know my adoration for classic graphic adventures. The making of these characters made me relax between some stressful hours at work. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed folding them :) See the rest of them here!
A nice day for a walk	02 May 2009
Well, here's something different that you don't see every day. I guess there's always a first time...
VSFileFinder2008 - Visual Studio Add-in	07 Feb 2009
VSFileFinder2008 is an add-in based on VSFileFinder2005 by Jonathan Payne that allows you to access project files quickly. This version is compatible with VS 2008 and has some improvements: wildcards, regular expressions, personalized tooltips, project filter and some bug fixing.
CLIArgsMadeEasy - Visual Studio Add-in	05 Feb 2009
Command Line Arguments Made Easy is an add-in developed by me after my friend Diogo that eases the access to the command line arguments of the startup project inside a Visual Studio solution. A combo box is added to the toolbar and all the arguments are saved for future use. You can download it here: CLIArgs Made Easy I hope you find it useful! ;)