November 30, 2008
I have a problem with XNA/.Net.
It's not a huge problem but it is one which lurks around the back of my mind and generally bothers me. It's that old bugbear of performance.
Take C++, while a large and complicated language it has had many man hours thrown at it to get compilers to the state they are a…
It's not a huge problem but it is one which lurks around the back of my mind and generally bothers me. It's that old bugbear of performance.
Take C++, while a large and complicated language it has had many man hours thrown at it to get compilers to the state they are a…
November 29, 2008
So, I've got an idea for a game kicking around in my head and I've been building a proto-type today in order to test out the idea.
Part of this requires some 2D Physics, for which I've opted for Farseer as it's a perfect fit with C#, and on the whole it's been pretty easy to work with even for someo…
Part of this requires some 2D Physics, for which I've opted for Farseer as it's a perfect fit with C#, and on the whole it's been pretty easy to work with even for someo…
November 13, 2008
Today has been a day or highs and lows.
The high was getting a copy of Eyetoy Play: Hero turn up which was the first game I worked on here at Zoe Mode and my first professionally published game, huzzah!
The low was discovering yet more evil in our graphics/game engine. Not to put to finer point on it…
The high was getting a copy of Eyetoy Play: Hero turn up which was the first game I worked on here at Zoe Mode and my first professionally published game, huzzah!
The low was discovering yet more evil in our graphics/game engine. Not to put to finer point on it…
November 02, 2008
So, as you might have seen I was in The Lounge asking what is it that sucks about IRC Clients? in order to get feedback/ideas for my own plans.
And I had planned to do some work on it this weekend, honest, but there was a slight problem; Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness : Episo…
And I had planned to do some work on it this weekend, honest, but there was a slight problem; Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness : Episo…
October 24, 2008
I've hit upon a problem with the old third/first person shooter games on a console; they cause my brain to explode. Let me explain...
When I play FPS games on the PC I of course use the old keyboard and mouse combo and in doing so I'm one of those freakish people who has an inverted Y-axis.
Now I pic…
When I play FPS games on the PC I of course use the old keyboard and mouse combo and in doing so I'm one of those freakish people who has an inverted Y-axis.
Now I pic…
October 23, 2008
We all know Singletons are evil.
It's a fact of life, although there are those out there who will defend them to the death.
They are wrong.
The reason is that they are so easy to abuse and this can very quickly spiral into a problem which takes me all day to look into.
The problem, in this instance, re…
It's a fact of life, although there are those out there who will defend them to the death.
They are wrong.
The reason is that they are so easy to abuse and this can very quickly spiral into a problem which takes me all day to look into.
The problem, in this instance, re…
September 21, 2008
This weekend I brought a Korg K25 midi controller keyboard, installed FL Studio 8 and had a play around.
It's good, I'm starting to get the hang of using, although it's been YEARS since I've done anything musical (and then it was an E in GCSE music) so don't expect any great works for a while [grin]…
It's good, I'm starting to get the hang of using, although it's been YEARS since I've done anything musical (and then it was an E in GCSE music) so don't expect any great works for a while [grin]…
September 14, 2008
In following on from my last post I did indeed get my hard drives on friday; not because my producer let me go early but because I woke up at 8am and instead of going back to sleep like normal forced myself out of bed and off to work. This confused some people, myself included, and it was all very …
September 11, 2008
For some time now my system has been showing signs of what can only be described as 'dodgyness'. The main sign being that it will suddenly lock up for a few seconds while playing games (and longer sometimes, fortunately not when playing games) with a hard drive light fully on. Recently something ha…
September 09, 2008
So, during lunch I like to wander around various websites to find something to take up my time while I consume my food stuffs.
Over at AnandTech.com they had a feature on Intel's new SSD, basically giving it a review, comparing to whats out there, you know the normal.
During the review the writer br…
Over at AnandTech.com they had a feature on Intel's new SSD, basically giving it a review, comparing to whats out there, you know the normal.
During the review the writer br…
September 07, 2008
I didn't end up playing Spore all weekend in the end; instead I went back and finished off WiC; even on hard it didn't take that long (although the 2nd to last mission was a pain).
I also noticed that one of my harddrive was 'clunking' which generally isn't a good thing. SMART tells me that, aside f…
I also noticed that one of my harddrive was 'clunking' which generally isn't a good thing. SMART tells me that, aside f…
September 05, 2008
This'll be short as I've just lost the last 7h or so of my life to that game and what can I say, it seems to be living up to the hype for me, which is nice as I was getting bored of games being delayed and hyped only to be so-so in their execution.
The control system is simple, the game play is spot…
The control system is simple, the game play is spot…
August 21, 2008
While todays update was somewhat minor to code it also represents an important set of basic milestones for the game in general in that we now have a game of sorts to speak of.
The main two changes are that towers can now shoot things within a certain area and creatures can die and be respawned at a …
The main two changes are that towers can now shoot things within a certain area and creatures can die and be respawned at a …
August 09, 2008
So, I surpose I should do my write up as well for the gamefest; I would have done it sooner but my new life style experiment (eat less, drink more water, sleep less) while leaving me awake during the day doesn't tend to lend itself to me being bothered to write lots when I get in from work... but e…
August 05, 2008
So, after poking people today it FINALLY got sorted that I'm going... not bad, only the afternoon before the event after all.
Having got the details my primary plan for the day is thus;
10:00 - 11:00 - Shedding (Indirect) light on Global Illumination for games OR Whats new in XNA Game Studio 3.0
11:30…
Having got the details my primary plan for the day is thus;
10:00 - 11:00 - Shedding (Indirect) light on Global Illumination for games OR Whats new in XNA Game Studio 3.0
11:30…
August 03, 2008
Utterly undev related (see entry below)... but like Evil Steve I went and saw CombiChrist last night but in Camden, London at the Electric Ballroom.
It was awesome sauce!
Combichrist were excellent, and much lulz were given when as they came back on for the 2nd encore the drummer decided to make a pa…
It was awesome sauce!
Combichrist were excellent, and much lulz were given when as they came back on for the 2nd encore the drummer decided to make a pa…
August 02, 2008
So, I haven't forgotten about this project and work has finally progressed. I did in fact do a little bit of work on this a while ago, however it wasn't really all that important so I decided to hold off on an update for now.
Today however I have made what I consider significant progress so I figure…
Today however I have made what I consider significant progress so I figure…
July 21, 2008
Apprently I'm going this... (well, as long as finance pays up on time)... sweet.
Didn't even know about it until the email turned up saying that it had been approved o.O
So, yeah, time to look over whats going on when I guess *chuckles*
Didn't even know about it until the email turned up saying that it had been approved o.O
So, yeah, time to look over whats going on when I guess *chuckles*
July 14, 2008
If it was earlier in the evening I'd do a better write up about this, however I feel the facts speak for themselves;
AMD have allowed AnandTech (and maybe a few other sites) to do a resticted 'preview' of the R700 aka the HD4870 X2.
This is AMD's top end card for this generation and they have done w…
AMD have allowed AnandTech (and maybe a few other sites) to do a resticted 'preview' of the R700 aka the HD4870 X2.
This is AMD's top end card for this generation and they have done w…
July 09, 2008
With a lack of anything else to write about at the moment (I promise to write more code soon, honest!) I thought I'd address this comment quickly;
Quote:Original post by Dragon88
I'm a little curious about where you're going to get art resources from. I haven't been following you long enough to know …
July 06, 2008
So, as you may have gathered from the subject I decided to work on the 3D Tower Defense Game out of my earlier list.
To that ends I set about creating a 2D test bed using C# and GDI+ to visualise everything and generally test out concepts.
It should be noted at this point that I have next to no exper…
To that ends I set about creating a 2D test bed using C# and GDI+ to visualise everything and generally test out concepts.
It should be noted at this point that I have next to no exper…
July 06, 2008
Well, yet again, NV's drivers bluescreened Vista on me while doing nothing more than watching my TV card.
This is pathetic.
In 2008 graphics card drivers should NOT be crashing while doing nothing more than showing video and they sure as hell shouldn't be taking down the system.
So, I think next mont…
This is pathetic.
In 2008 graphics card drivers should NOT be crashing while doing nothing more than showing video and they sure as hell shouldn't be taking down the system.
So, I think next mont…
June 30, 2008
Some time ago I went through what could be considered a revolution of sorts; I stood down as the OpenGL forum moderator and in a series of "intresting" posts on the OpenGL forum I complained.. no, ranted... about the lack of OpenGL progress, how Linux and OS X don't really matter and that sinking m…
June 26, 2008
So, as promised the final consideration on this latest generation of chips, mainly focused around the RV770 in it's HD4870 incarnation.
First of all a little correct from my last entry centred around the AMD stream processors; as noted AMDs are effectively vec5 (well, vec4 and a "fat" 5th pipe which…
First of all a little correct from my last entry centred around the AMD stream processors; as noted AMDs are effectively vec5 (well, vec4 and a "fat" 5th pipe which…
June 25, 2008
.. I've just been handed a contract extension upto Jan 6th 2009, which is nice.
There was very little doubt of me getting one but it's nice to have it in my hand at least.
Right now I'm on what is effectively a rolling 6 month contract, however El Technical Director (who I've seen more of this last w…
There was very little doubt of me getting one but it's nice to have it in my hand at least.
Right now I'm on what is effectively a rolling 6 month contract, however El Technical Director (who I've seen more of this last w…
June 24, 2008
So after a quick chat with the guy who is effectively my boss (not that I see him all that much) I now know that in just under 2 weeks I'll be changing project at work from the announced Play:Hero to an unannouced project.
The fact it's unannounced means I can't say much about it beyond the concept …
The fact it's unannounced means I can't say much about it beyond the concept …
June 20, 2008
So, it appears that AMD have had to make a move on their new hardware as some places in europe have started selling them early. A few dates have been jiggled and some previews have started appearing in the wild, including the one over at Anandtech.
As you might recall I was a tad underwhelmed by the…
As you might recall I was a tad underwhelmed by the…
June 17, 2008
Maybe it's just that I haven't been paying attention as much before but it seems the latest nvidia card has snuck out without a great fanface; and to be fair I'm not overly surprised.
While there has of course been a speed up and some refines ments from the reviews I remain underwhelmed by it. It se…
While there has of course been a speed up and some refines ments from the reviews I remain underwhelmed by it. It se…
June 13, 2008
Ever since it was announced that D3D10 would be Vista only people have been doing their nut about how MS were forcing this upon us and the like.
But consider this; while MS map out the spec and driver interface it is upto NV and AMD to provide the drivers for their hardware.
Now, when MS came to the…
But consider this; while MS map out the spec and driver interface it is upto NV and AMD to provide the drivers for their hardware.
Now, when MS came to the…
June 07, 2008
So, after my last post (which someone got the wrong end of, I guess I shouldn't use imagary when describing stuff like that) I got to thinking about.. well, everything.
After about 48h I decided something which, honestly, had been coming for some time and informed the powers that run the place that …
After about 48h I decided something which, honestly, had been coming for some time and informed the powers that run the place that …
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