About Illusive Studios

I started Illusive Studios just after college, with the intention of becoming a contender in the video game industry. Throughout the years however (even before Illusive was around), we worked on several game programming projects that never fully got off the ground. Our game ideas were usually too big in scope for the beginners that we were, and the result was usually us getting discouraged and going off to work on other things, leaving what we started behind and never coming back to finish it.

After taking a hiatus from game development, illusivestudios.com was neglected and was generally only used for the very occasional blog post. (Albeit, it wasn't called a "Blog" until that word caught on in the Internet world more recently.) You can view the previous versions of www.illusivestudios.com.

So it has been about four years since I've been "blogging" again, and that's where this brand new site redesign comes into the picture. I've learned several technologies at my current web development job; Most notably ASP.NET, C# and SQL Server. The site was originally coded in PHP with mySQL, which for me at least, I find very limiting in functionality. For example, it's far easier to set up URL Rewrites for SEO using ASP.NET than it is in PHP (you'd actually use an Apache Mod if you were using PHP). ASP.NET also has built in data caching, so with one line of code, you can cache the data from a SQL query for faster reads. There are other reasons as well, so that's why I decided to make the switch to ASP.NET.

Anyway, the site is back up now, and it will primarily be a blog for now. At some point, there may be some separate pages to house my projects, but there's nothing planned at this time. My wife and I will be moving to Korea for a few months starting in mid May, at which time I will mostly be using the blog to show you our experiences while living in Seoul. Other than that, the blog content is mostly going to coincide with my interests which are mostly coding, Windows 7, technology, gaming, anime, food, travel, and whatever else I feel like. Hopefully that's enough to keep you coming back. That said, I have an RSS feed that shows full blog posts, so feel free to subscribe.

Enjoy!
-Gordon (AKA Alphatrak)