Not dead...

Over a few weekends leading up until Xmas and the last couple since then I have been playing around with boost::spirit and taking a quick look at ANTLR in order to setup some code to parse Lua and generate an AST.

Spirit looked promising, the ability to pretty much dump the Lua BNF into it was nice right up until I ran into Left Recursion and ended up in...

While gearing up to work on parser/AST generator as mentioned in my previous entry I decided to watch a couple of Webinars from AMD talking about OpenCL (because while I'm DX11 focused I do like OpenCL as a concept); the first of which was talking about the HD5870 design.

One of the more intresting things to come out of it was some details on the...

Some time ago now I had an idea for a game which spawned from reading about a perticular graphics technique in GPU Gems 3.
I decided early on with the game idea that I wanted to target DX11 hardware and multi-core CPUs only; mostly because I was under no illusion about a fast release time and partly because I decided I wanted things to look nice thus a DX11...