August 09, 2010
Hmm, so having got out of one relationship, the following things have happened:
Met a wonderful women with two excellent kids Moved in Gave notice on my house Jacked in my shit job
Quite a fortnight. Still, fortune generally favours the brave and I'm far happier now than I was before all this happened. …
Quite a fortnight. Still, fortune generally favours the brave and I'm far happier now than I was before all this happened. …
July 18, 2010
This is how we do it, do it, this is how we do it, do it.
Nobody's responded though. Dammit.
July 09, 2010
My God, Aardvajk is actually working on his game. Jaws drop.
Something that has been annoying me for a while is how on earth to produce cool effects using additive blending over light backgrounds.
Obviously, additive blending is wonderful when you start on a black or nearly black background, but over…
July 03, 2010
Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned more around here.
www.digipen.edu/studentprojects/tag/
It's fricking awesome and they've been poached by Valve to work the mechanic into Portal 2, which is looking to be the best game ever made EVAR.
Really need to get myself working on something again. Bored sh…
www.digipen.edu/studentprojects/tag/
It's fricking awesome and they've been poached by Valve to work the mechanic into Portal 2, which is looking to be the best game ever made EVAR.
Really need to get myself working on something again. Bored sh…
June 20, 2010
Word up.
Still here, just not very active programming at the moment. Me and my partner split up finally, I think for good this time. Just sort of adjusting to being single (not all bad actually), working my arse off at the day job and trying to fill my time in the evenings.
Lost all interest in Squis…
Still here, just not very active programming at the moment. Me and my partner split up finally, I think for good this time. Just sort of adjusting to being single (not all bad actually), working my arse off at the day job and trying to fill my time in the evenings.
Lost all interest in Squis…
May 09, 2010
So I'm on holiday. No internet in the chalet but free wi-fi at the local bar. Above is the temporary HQ of Aardvajk Software - you can just make out Squed running in the background with a test of Squishy running above.
Got entering and exiting the level with portals working. When I get home I'll upl…
May 05, 2010
I've been working vaguely on re-implementing the cloud portals in Squishy this week. The originals got taken out along with a lot of other stuff in order to ease the new editor into working order.
The cloud rings work the same, but I've written a much improved shader for the portal contents this tim…
April 29, 2010
Entertaining day at work today. A colleague and I were both assaulted by a client, who then kicked a hole in the wall, assaulted a policeman and was arrested. I'm not really hurt, just a bruised hip where I hit a table on the way down - thankfully a more friendly client caught me on the way so more…
April 25, 2010
So I just checked my emails for the first time in weeks and discovered that VS 2010 Express is finally out of Beta. I'm quite excited about this because for some weird reason VS 2008 with SP1 won't install on my laptop since I put Win7 on it so I've had to put my laptop and desktop back to pre SP1 …
April 24, 2010
Ages ago, I talked about the logic gate system for interactivity in Squishy levels without the need for scripting.
The new editor has a far more intuitive method of setting up these relationships, as shown above. You can just click an object, then hold shift and click other objects to define the rel…
April 06, 2010
So I bought Windows 7 for my laptop and now VS C++ Express with SP1 won't install. Tried online, downloaded the ISO and tried that mapped as a virtual drive, burnt the ISO to disk and tried that, tried installing using my desktop's DVD drive over the network, nothing.
Thankfully I found an old disk …
Thankfully I found an old disk …
March 11, 2010
Bleh. No energy to post really but here goes.
Got back into working on my website. I've finally given in and bought some hosting that provides one MS SQL 2008 database as part of the package. Total cost is about GBP7.50 a month but I'm still locked into previous GBP5 package with the dreaded Fasthos…
Got back into working on my website. I've finally given in and bought some hosting that provides one MS SQL 2008 database as part of the package. Total cost is about GBP7.50 a month but I'm still locked into previous GBP5 package with the dreaded Fasthos…
March 08, 2010
I'm back on a whim playing around with my website again now. I've finally got around to downloading SQL Express 2005 and I've found it a dream to work with. I have a nice, offline version of my site coming along nicely, all data-driven and pleasant to work with. The account creation, email activati…
March 02, 2010
Just a quick post tonight to say still here, still plugging away, Louise is now out of hospital and staying temporarily at her parents (her family work weird shifts so people there more than here) and getting better. Thanks again for all of the well wishes both here and on Twitter.
I've had to take …
I've had to take …
February 24, 2010
Firstly, Louise is getting better at last and thanks again for all the well-wishes, especially the mention in Weekend Reading. She's off the IV for most of the time now, just a half hour every now and then for steroids and we're hoping she'll be out of hospital early next week.
Work is absurdly stre…
Work is absurdly stre…
February 18, 2010
Thanks again for all the comments yesterday. Louise was less impressed than I expected but then I think she thinks we're all weird.
The hospital have kindly agreed for me to plug my laptop in at the ward as long as the wireless is off, even though it isn't PAT tested. They have been really good abou…
The hospital have kindly agreed for me to plug my laptop in at the ward as long as the wireless is off, even though it isn't PAT tested. They have been really good abou…
February 17, 2010
So I'm still out here and still programming hard but haven't updated in a long time.
My partner is in hospital at the moment. She is pretty unwell but she is at least in the best place now and things are being addressed. It has been a very worrying couple of weeks and hopefully we will get some answ…
My partner is in hospital at the moment. She is pretty unwell but she is at least in the best place now and things are being addressed. It has been a very worrying couple of weeks and hopefully we will get some answ…
February 01, 2010
Not updating this thing much at the moment by my usual standards. Not sure why really. I've been moved to a new centre at work to deliver a brand new programme in the adjacent county (we just won the contract) and have been pretty damn busy with all that stuff so not much in the way of programming …
January 07, 2010
I love native WinAPI programming. You can keep your C# and your WinForms - I'll stop native API programming when you prise the offline SDK docs from my cold dead fingers (or if I was in a hurry or being paid or whatever).
That said, I've been trying to justify writing some custom window controls in …
That said, I've been trying to justify writing some custom window controls in …
December 25, 2009
I discovered a major bug in my compiler for the scripting language for Squishy that I can't quite believe that I missed when I was testing - I'm actually wondering if I did any testing before I built it into the level editor.
Basically, when I was pushing function arguments onto the data stack prior…
Basically, when I was pushing function arguments onto the data stack prior…
December 18, 2009
Have to be a quick update as I'm out on the work night out in a bit but just wanted to write up my music system briefly.
It is common in a computer game to want to play a piece that has, for a random example, two sections of intro, then a section repeated twice, then another section, then loop back …
It is common in a computer game to want to play a piece that has, for a random example, two sections of intro, then a section repeated twice, then another section, then loop back …
December 17, 2009
Aargh. Why doesn't dividing the length of the PCM data by the number of bars give me the correct offsets into the WAV? Need to write something to visualise the data to figure this out.
[EDIT] Taken me two nights of pouring over code before I figured out that I was compiling the wrong WAV file. Twat.…
[EDIT] Taken me two nights of pouring over code before I figured out that I was compiling the wrong WAV file. Twat.…
December 14, 2009
Composed a little tune tonight for the music for my Squishy intro level.
HERE IT IS. I'd right-click and download it though as it doesn't stream so well from my webspace.
HERE IT IS. I'd right-click and download it though as it doesn't stream so well from my webspace.
December 10, 2009
">HERE'S A NEW VIDEO I've just posted showing the draft introduction level for Squishy.
It is a combination of the existing scripting system and the newly implemented dialog system allowing for a very flexible and data driven approach to level events.
The script file for the above level looks like…
December 05, 2009
About time for another update I guess. A few bits to talk about at the moment.
Firstly, I've just spent the last few hours changing the GUI system so that the GUI is rendered at a size relative to the resolution rather than the previous fixed size system. The fonts don't look too bad scaled, as long…
Firstly, I've just spent the last few hours changing the GUI system so that the GUI is rendered at a size relative to the resolution rather than the previous fixed size system. The fonts don't look too bad scaled, as long…
November 29, 2009
I've just finished implementing the above wall levers in Squishy. I wanted a control that could act more like a toggle as opposed to the floor buttons which require a weight on them to stay down.
">Here's a YouTube video showing them in action.
They feel like they work, unlike the recent Stompers,…
November 26, 2009
What do you think of the first level theme tune for Squishy? Takes some inspiration from Sonic's original Greenhill zone.
Greenery.
And this is probably for an end of level boss or some other exciting sequence. I think my Sisters of Mercy influences are coming out in this one.
Spanner Time.
I'm really …
Greenery.
And this is probably for an end of level boss or some other exciting sequence. I think my Sisters of Mercy influences are coming out in this one.
Spanner Time.
I'm really …
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