Archipelago

The official Carrier Command remake is finally released. It took them 6+ years with a smallish team, and the results... well let's see.

The Carrier 2 remake is now dead. Gone. Buried.
With the intended release of an official Carrier Command game from the new IP holders, I can't really continue with my friendly remake.

I do intend to take what I have, hopefully get more people on it, bypass any IP issues and get something released. Eventually.
And with the planned modding ability,...

Rejoice! DRM got a double blow recently

2D Boy dev: "DRM is a waste of time"

Valve: 'Steamworks obsoletes DRM'

[ed] Although... I was quite coming round to Steam now memories of the Half-Life 2 release debacle are fading, but tonight I can't play half my games, as 'Steam is having trouble connecting'. Grrrr

[Ed] Some interesting IGF info here.

Gratuitous C2 screenie that I quite liked, showing the enigmatic Walrus.



You can just see how the procedural placement of the structure foundations allows the terrain to poke through and look silly sometimes ;)
You may also notice how the framerate has halved due to the FBO stuff. Still investigating that one Suspect maybe the render buffer...

OK so Carrier2 doesn't like ATi gfx cards. Or the other way round. Either way I'm in the process of rebuilding my spare PC with a rather ageing but still robust Radeon 9800 Pro

In other news, I picked up a little 'medieval' RPG-style game called 'Mount & Blade' on steam some weeks ago. This project started out as a man & wife team editing a...

So while I wait for a physics fix-up, I thought I'd take a look at that scary omnipresent todo-list item casting a dark shadow on my thoughts - erm... shadows. As is becoming usual with these game dev things, getting an initial implementation working wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be (umm standing on the shoulders of giants & all...

Argh - I is demoted! Lost my GDNet+ status due to my paypal details becoming obsolete. Was a shock to see a blue avatar icon next to my name and be unable to post here! Fixed now

Had a bit of a bad time with my chosen Lua binding lib LuaPlus recently - it seems I can't trap any meaningful error output when calling Lua functions from C++. This makes...

Hostile Waters (+ some other old games) on the cheap