Lazy Facts
Just for fun I decided to post a brief history and some random facts of the site.
- Lazy Foo' Productions was founded the same day Kill Bill Vol 2 came out on DVD. I rented it to watch with my girlfriend I was with at the time. She had vicious PMS that day.
- Lazy Foo' Productions was originally supposed to be called "Lazy Programmer Productions".
- The site was hosted on the now defunct netcessor.net free hosting site at http://netcessor.net:82/lazyfoo/index.html. I didn't have a job at the time so I couldn't afford hosting.
- The site had the various games I was making at the time. It consisted of a Tic Tac Toe game called "X vs O" which I finished by the end of the summer, "Lazy Poker" an Online Draw Poker game got done by the end of the fall, and the early versions of Lazy Blocks. It also had a news page was pretty much a log of the progress being made on the games.
- The layout was pretty much the same as now, only it was black text on a white background. It also used frames (I was young, I didn't know any better).
- The games and the site were created on an old Compaq computer with a a 700 mhz Pentium III, 4 MB integrated intel GPU, 128 RAM and a 20 GB harddrive running Windows 98.
- I only averaged about a dozen visitors a week. Partly because the site kept going down.
- I created lazyfooproductions.com on March 14 2006. That's when I changed the layout into what you see today.
- After I bought the site I continued my work on lazy blocks. I finished by the end of spring. After lazy blocks I made a scrolling/tiling demo called lazy maze which was never released. Then I started working with OpenGL. I didn't get very far in my OpenGL study because my integrated intel GPU with really bad drivers. Calling glGetTexImage would crash a program. Because I couldn't further my study I thought maybe I should make some tutorials.
- I started making the source code for the demo programs and finished the source codes by mid july. Then I announced my tutorials to GameDev. There were originally 20 tutorials.
- The reason the tutorials run at 20 FPS is because the Compaq computer I was running wasn't able to get a decent framerate.
- The reason lazy font is so poorly drawn is because my mouse was broken when I made it. I had to hold it like a TV remote and move the mouse ball with my finger.
- Because my Compaq was 5 years old, it's capacitors blew and I had to get a new computer. I'm now on a custom made rig with a AMD Athlon 3700+, Geforce GS 6800, 1 gig a RAM, and 2 120 gig hard drives running Windows XP and SuSE 9.3.
- lazyfooproduction.com was hosted the crappy webhost VizaWeb Inc. The site would go down at least once month, there was no customer service, and the site go hacked at least twice in my two years on their service.
- On January 1 2007, I moved to dreamhost. Things are much better now.
- Because of work, school, constant additions and revisions, something that was supposed to be a summer/fall project is just now about to be completed after 2 years.
- The site is made with Dev C++ for the demo programs, Notepad++ for web stuff, MSPaint/Photoshop 7/Sony Vegas for graphics.
- I've never officially mentioned my name on the site, but one of the tutorials does say what it is.
- Lazy Foo' Production was and still is produced from a laundry room. There's literally a dryer 1 foot away from me as I'm typing this. This is what I get for not studying hard in high school.
- The site now gets between 8000 and 10000 unique visitors a month.
- Because my e-mail is publicly posted, I get tons of spam. Fortunately, gmail filters almost all of it so my inbox isn't full of messages from people who want to enlarge my penis.
- Most of the visits come from people who bookmarked the site.
- The top referring sites are the Stumbleupon, the SDL website, gamedev, and google.
- Most people that visit the site use FireFox.
- About 70%-80% of visitors use windows, 15%-20% use Linux, and about 3%-4% use Macs.
- If you type "Lazy Foo'" into the google search bar and you hit I'm Feeling Lucky this website pops up.