Augusta, GA
Ranting, raving, and coding. All in the name of caffeine.
December 20, 2005
After reading this thread in the Game Programming forum, specifically Promit's comments about many things that you'd have to "glue together" in OpenGL are already built into DirectX, I thought i'd give DirectX 9 a go since i'm not very far along on my project at all, and i've had a bit of experienc…
December 19, 2005
Well, I got a very late start on my coding today, and I didn't get as much done as I would have hoped, but it's late now and i figured i'd put something about my progress here, since I am paying for it and all [wink].
I was going back and forth today and yesterday with whether I should write my own …
I was going back and forth today and yesterday with whether I should write my own …
December 15, 2005
So today, as I start my Christmas vacation, I thought that i'd come up with a framework that I can work with over the holidays which consists of OpenGL running with SDL and FMOD for sound support (I love FMOD).
So after referencing a couple of articles, all 3 are running together, waiting for me …
So after referencing a couple of articles, all 3 are running together, waiting for me …
November 03, 2005
Well, some of you might remember that I posted about our game development class and us having speakers come talk with us. I had originally planned to tape the presentations and have them up here for everyone to watch, but it turns out that these people, or the places that they work for more likely…
October 20, 2005
I'm taking a data structures class this semester and I quite like it. The programs, for me at least, have been really easy (queues, and a hash table implementation), others in the class seem to be struggling somewhat. This isn't to brag, but a lot of them seem to think that they can code up anyth…
October 13, 2005
I'm leaving for Florida tomorrow morning for the ACM regional programming contest(southeast). I've been in a class this semester where we just practice the types of problems that we might face at the contest, so I hope it goes well.
This will be my first contest. The competition will be in Melbo…
This will be my first contest. The competition will be in Melbo…
September 13, 2005
I don't have any new screenshots to show this week, but we've made a bit of progress on the game this past week. One of the other guys was able to get different maps loading properly with a simple boundary check, so we'll be trying to get map changes working when on a specific tile. We also found…
September 13, 2005
I don't have any new screenshots to show this week, but we've made a bit of progress on the game this past week. One of the other guys was able to get different maps loading properly with a simple boundary check, so we'll be trying to get map changes working when on a specific tile. We also found…
September 05, 2005
Alright, so almost a week has gone by and we've actually managed to make some progress with our game. Two of us have been working on it at least.
So, this past week I wrote a mapLoading class that loads maps from Mappy. I modified the exported files a bit to suit my needs a bit better, but it's …
So, this past week I wrote a mapLoading class that loads maps from Mappy. I modified the exported files a bit to suit my needs a bit better, but it's …
August 31, 2005
Our new semester has begun and the 10 people taking the Game Design class have splintered off into two groups. Both groups, I think, plan to make an oldschool RPG. My team is planning to use Allegro with C++, and the other is going to use PyGame. It should be pretty cool, certainly beats the nor…
August 18, 2005
So today, after years of spending countless hours watching the miniscule progress of a download, I have obtained broadband!
All these years it seemed so ironic to me that I, being the computer nerd/geek among everyone that I knew, was the last one around to get broadband. Life = good now!
How did …
All these years it seemed so ironic to me that I, being the computer nerd/geek among everyone that I knew, was the last one around to get broadband. Life = good now!
How did …
August 09, 2005
So we went on vacation over the past few days. The place - Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It sucked. Car had problems and we wound up going the "scenic" (i.e. long) route up and back. No fun at all. We're calling this our test run for the year, we definitely need to go somewhere better to make up fo…
August 02, 2005
In the little time that i've been playing with C#, I can say that, so far, I quite like it. I really love the ability to rapidly develop GUI apps. like VB, but not really have to use VB as it were.
I've been wanting to get into hardware for a while, so I thought for my newest project i'd try to w…
I've been wanting to get into hardware for a while, so I thought for my newest project i'd try to w…
July 19, 2005
I love to write. I started a novel about two years ago, but that was my first endeavor into writing, and I wasn't really all that happy with the results. As with anthing, the more you do it the better you become.
My first bit of work has a lot wrong with it i'm sure. That's why I think i'm goin…
My first bit of work has a lot wrong with it i'm sure. That's why I think i'm goin…
July 14, 2005
So I was reading my new Game Informer magazine today, and it had a little article about HL2's port to Xbox.
Because of the Xbox's memory restrictions, it seems that Valve reworked Source to have a heavy duty bit of streaming so that the levels were seamless, even with such tight memory constraints…
Because of the Xbox's memory restrictions, it seems that Valve reworked Source to have a heavy duty bit of streaming so that the levels were seamless, even with such tight memory constraints…
July 11, 2005
Hmm, the more that I thought about it last night, the better the idea of a grav. gun based ball game sounded. Basically it'd be a basketball hybrid. This sort of thing would be fun to play, and a good learning experience on my part for coding with the Source engine.
I'll just dump all of my though…
I'll just dump all of my though…
July 10, 2005
Over the weekend i've gotten interested in Half-Life 2 modding. I created a project and compiled it, but got no levels when I tried to start a new game. I think this is supposed to happen, but i'm not sure why. I can load levels through the dev console at least.
Anyway, i'm hoping to do some modd…
Anyway, i'm hoping to do some modd…
July 01, 2005
I've become increasingly frustrated recently about the state of education that I notice around me.
Technology, math, science, and computing are, and probably will remain to be, topics of discussion among a small(ish) group of people, typically referred to as 'geeks' or 'nerds'. I tend to consider m…
Technology, math, science, and computing are, and probably will remain to be, topics of discussion among a small(ish) group of people, typically referred to as 'geeks' or 'nerds'. I tend to consider m…
June 25, 2005
Today I shall make a recommendation for a movie: Primer.
It's an independent film that starred at Sundance and deals with 2 engineer friends that deal with the moral and intellectual difficulties that arise from one of their inventions - a time machine. Definitely check it out [smile]. The directo…
It's an independent film that starred at Sundance and deals with 2 engineer friends that deal with the moral and intellectual difficulties that arise from one of their inventions - a time machine. Definitely check it out [smile]. The directo…
June 08, 2005
I was just reading Rob Loach's journal where he had a link to SpriteLib, a free sprite library that has some useful stuff in it.
All along i've had ideas for games but never means to make art for them. Always in my head I had the idea that all this game art was a hidden secret and you'd have to p…
All along i've had ideas for games but never means to make art for them. Always in my head I had the idea that all this game art was a hidden secret and you'd have to p…
June 02, 2005
I got bored today and decided that I should get an arbitrary precision math library up and running, just for fun. So of course I went to google and looked around.
What I found was MAPM. It was painless enough to make the library file using Dev-C++ and once I had that done, I linked it into a pro…
What I found was MAPM. It was painless enough to make the library file using Dev-C++ and once I had that done, I linked it into a pro…
June 01, 2005
Well, the time is here. Something I posted about a little while back has finally come about. Over at the Ogre3d forums, one of the talented people over there has written a physics wrapper for about 4 engines that allows you to conveniently use the same code for the same functionality across all s…
May 30, 2005
When I ride in cars my mind wanders and I tend to have a lot of off the wall ideas. Today on the way to school I got to thinking about the emotion of the player and how that might be used as an interactive element in games. Now, of course all games aren't suited to this sort of thing. Card games…
May 22, 2005
So i'm taking Physics over the summer, and so far it's quite frustating. Not because I don't know how to do the problems, they're easy, but because of the other people in the class.
The prerequisite for the class is Precalculus, but there seems to be a lot of people in the class that, while they …
The prerequisite for the class is Precalculus, but there seems to be a lot of people in the class that, while they …
May 18, 2005
Woo! I'll start by saying that Newegg.com and Fedex are good about getting stuff to you fast. I ordered my RAM Monday and got it today, wasn't expecting it until tomorrow, so kudos to them for that.
I popped the stick in and all seems quite dandy. I fired up Half-Life 2, and I can definitely se…
I popped the stick in and all seems quite dandy. I fired up Half-Life 2, and I can definitely se…
May 16, 2005
I was sitting around today and decided to order a stick of RAM. My system is pretty much a standard thing from HP.
P4 2.4 Ghz
512 MB DDR soon to be a gig
80 Gig HD
and a RADEON 8500 I bought off of a friend for $50 about 2 or 3 years ago I think.
I've been meaning to upgrade for a while now, but ju…
P4 2.4 Ghz
512 MB DDR soon to be a gig
80 Gig HD
and a RADEON 8500 I bought off of a friend for $50 about 2 or 3 years ago I think.
I've been meaning to upgrade for a while now, but ju…
May 09, 2005
I've been noticing lots of little features popping up on GDNet lately; a link to preview your post, and collapsable forum categories are what i've noticed, and they're cool. The worker elves of Gamedev seem to have been busy!
Aside from that, i'm supposed to be going to San Francisco the first week…
Aside from that, i'm supposed to be going to San Francisco the first week…
April 26, 2005
Yesterday a friend showed me a couple of things he had done with Allegro and I was sufficiently impressed. He showed me some code and, from what I could tell, it's easier to use than SDL, and that's saying something. I hadn't ever looked at Allegro before, but I think that I may now.
Allegro loo…
Allegro loo…
March 28, 2005
I was sitting in the CSCI lab today talking with some people and discovered that you HAVE to have a minor to graduate. Previously I was unaware of this, and was stunned to find that you had to have one. I guess I didn't read enough in the catalog or something.
Anyway, I thought that it might suc…
Anyway, I thought that it might suc…
March 19, 2005
So I was just watching Final Destination 2, and I think if I were to watch that in the presence of a psychologist, he'd immediately put me in a padded room far away from people. I laughed so hard through that movie at the completely overdone death scenes, and I don't think it was meant to be a com…
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