October 13, 2007
Okay so development hasn't been going so well. I have two reasons:
1. I don't have all the code I already put together and hate re-implementing things that I already spent a lot of time on.
2. I really hate working on a laptop with a tiny screen and dreadful processor.
Well in a month I'll be back on…
1. I don't have all the code I already put together and hate re-implementing things that I already spent a lot of time on.
2. I really hate working on a laptop with a tiny screen and dreadful processor.
Well in a month I'll be back on…
September 25, 2007
Can anyone recommend a good batch image convert program?
I want to resize my pictures to 800x600 or 600x800 and also produce thumbnail versions. I also want it to give them sensible names.
Anyway enjoy this one for now:
Click for larger version.
Edit: If you want a bigger picture then just ask as I ha…
I want to resize my pictures to 800x600 or 600x800 and also produce thumbnail versions. I also want it to give them sensible names.
Anyway enjoy this one for now:
Click for larger version.
Edit: If you want a bigger picture then just ask as I ha…
September 24, 2007
EDIT: "In space no one can hear you scream"
The cool thing about making a space game is that you don't need sound effects.
Of course I think I'll break that rule when I get round to programming some audio. In fact I intend on breaking many laws of Physics that stand in my way. But not gravity, oh …
The cool thing about making a space game is that you don't need sound effects.
Of course I think I'll break that rule when I get round to programming some audio. In fact I intend on breaking many laws of Physics that stand in my way. But not gravity, oh …
September 22, 2007
September 17, 2007
A day of procrastination
Well I spent a lot of today doing things other than coding. Watching anime, cleaning up, going shopping (for food), reading books. I did do bits and pieces in between though such as sorting out my visual studio install, setting up the platform SDK and SDL etc.
A start
I fina…
Well I spent a lot of today doing things other than coding. Watching anime, cleaning up, going shopping (for food), reading books. I did do bits and pieces in between though such as sorting out my visual studio install, setting up the platform SDK and SDL etc.
A start
I fina…
September 16, 2007
Project Name
I haven't thought of a name for this project yet or really given away many details. I guess this will come in the future. Well I've thought of a name and I really like it too:
From Dictionary.com
1. extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.…
I haven't thought of a name for this project yet or really given away many details. I guess this will come in the future. Well I've thought of a name and I really like it too:
From Dictionary.com
1. extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.…
September 16, 2007
Project Phases
Today I took some time out to draw up a brief project plan. You may have noticed this up the top of the page. The idea is to provide some very simple milestones to get me back in to this full speed and save me planning out every last detail without actually doing any work.
This is ve…
Today I took some time out to draw up a brief project plan. You may have noticed this up the top of the page. The idea is to provide some very simple milestones to get me back in to this full speed and save me planning out every last detail without actually doing any work.
This is ve…
September 13, 2007
The Return
So it has been one year exactly since I last wrote to this journal. I think I've been neglecting it a little bit. I had planned to put together some kick ass visuals, plans and general content for today but I never got round to it. Instead I've been writing out my plans and drawing ske…
So it has been one year exactly since I last wrote to this journal. I think I've been neglecting it a little bit. I had planned to put together some kick ass visuals, plans and general content for today but I never got round to it. Instead I've been writing out my plans and drawing ske…
September 13, 2006
I managed to put together my first useful custom control!
It doesn't look like much but quite a few hours of work went in to that. If you knew what you were doing I think you could create that in less than 15 minutes and hopefully one day even I'll be able to do that.
This is actually a control I'm…
It doesn't look like much but quite a few hours of work went in to that. If you knew what you were doing I think you could create that in less than 15 minutes and hopefully one day even I'll be able to do that.
This is actually a control I'm…
September 11, 2006
I've decided to pick up some window forms skills. I had a little play with it when I first downloaded vs2005 express and was quite relieved to see how different to MFC it was. I'd always avoided MFC like the plague and did a little Win32 programming, just enough to get by, but I've always wanted …
September 03, 2006
Well here's my title screen mock-up! Just like the previous mock-up I'm going to cut this up and make all the elements that are needed for it.
Edit: Changed to .jpg for filesize love!
Quite simple one this, just a back-drop on the screen and then four player join 'objects' that flash when a player c…
Edit: Changed to .jpg for filesize love!
Quite simple one this, just a back-drop on the screen and then four player join 'objects' that flash when a player c…
August 29, 2006
So I'm tempted to put a drum and bass soundtrack to the game that has made a nice leap in progress over the weekend. I've got a lot of the elements in place but it's just a matter of weaving it all together in a maintainable way.
So who here likes dnb and what kind of stuff (old, new, popular)?
So who here likes dnb and what kind of stuff (old, new, popular)?
August 24, 2006
I remember when my e-mail used to be 106034.1716@compuserve.com, well thank-you for the animated .gif technology!
The code behind this is a lot more robust than this lets on but more on that later...
The code behind this is a lot more robust than this lets on but more on that later...
August 22, 2006
Behold a might sword fight... I wish I could show you a video of them fighting instead!
Green Halo effect entirely unintentional...
Green Halo effect entirely unintentional...
July 05, 2006
Updates have been slow but that's because I was approaching race day!
Yesterday, I competed in a charity race with most of the major companies in the City, the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge.
I finished the 5.5km race in 33 minutes which averages out at 10kmp/h so I'm pretty please. I think I co…
Yesterday, I competed in a charity race with most of the major companies in the City, the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge.
I finished the 5.5km race in 33 minutes which averages out at 10kmp/h so I'm pretty please. I think I co…
June 29, 2006
General Update
Phew. Just saved myself from hitting the bottom of the journal list. Progress has been slow due to last minute running training and a spate of nights out with friends (yes the two do contradict each other in their goals)
I have wrote approximately 50% of the State Manager / States inf…
Phew. Just saved myself from hitting the bottom of the journal list. Progress has been slow due to last minute running training and a spate of nights out with friends (yes the two do contradict each other in their goals)
I have wrote approximately 50% of the State Manager / States inf…
June 23, 2006
Unfortunately I'm in work at 7.30am to make sure the changes I made on the servers last night don't break everything. It's in one of the most important processes so even 10 minutes of downtime would cost tens of thousands of pounds. It all works though unsurpisingly (I did only change one line of…
June 18, 2006
Didn't get half the stuff I wanted to get done finished this weekend because I decided to hang out with friends instead and go to the park to play lots of football. I also watched the football... Italy, what were you thinking!!!
I did manage to get a small thing out of the way which was satisfying,…
I did manage to get a small thing out of the way which was satisfying,…
June 17, 2006
Just a quick update to say that I'm finally going to write the base for my game rather than hacking in everything as I go. Fortunately I haven't done too much yet in terms of code so I haven't forced any design decisions on myself.
So let's see:
Resource Management: Create Resource Manager, Handles …
So let's see:
Resource Management: Create Resource Manager, Handles …
June 16, 2006
If you've seen the news today then you probably know about the ridiculous spending on the NHS IT programme. The estimated cost runs to GBP20bn and it hasn't even been delivered yet! Doctors also have criticised the system for not doing what it needs to.
I have to wonder how they've managed to spend…
I have to wonder how they've managed to spend…
June 14, 2006
Before I kick off with an update on the game check out this:
666 baby! I've actually had paranoid people at work tell me I'm not allowed to use that number for test data!
Time Used
Yeah it should really be Time Used... so far it's 2 hours 50 minutes. Another 30 minutes and again graphics sucked up m…
666 baby! I've actually had paranoid people at work tell me I'm not allowed to use that number for test data!
Time Used
Yeah it should really be Time Used... so far it's 2 hours 50 minutes. Another 30 minutes and again graphics sucked up m…
June 14, 2006
The Issue
I'm quite fortunate in that the consultant testing my deployments (pre-release) works in the same office as me, in fact probably only 10-15 metres away. He's working through my latest update at the moment but earlier he found a problem.
We sat in front of my PC and recreated the issue and …
I'm quite fortunate in that the consultant testing my deployments (pre-release) works in the same office as me, in fact probably only 10-15 metres away. He's working through my latest update at the moment but earlier he found a problem.
We sat in front of my PC and recreated the issue and …
June 13, 2006
June 13, 2006
Work
Wow it's been a busy day at work and tomorrow's going to kick off the same way with some conformance testing. Unfortunately I'm not doing a great deal of development but actually fixing problems and pushing things along.
The Game
I have to appologise that there hasn't been many funky screenshots…
Wow it's been a busy day at work and tomorrow's going to kick off the same way with some conformance testing. Unfortunately I'm not doing a great deal of development but actually fixing problems and pushing things along.
The Game
I have to appologise that there hasn't been many funky screenshots…
June 12, 2006
Time Left
I'm now 1 hour 50 minutes in to the build. I'm really keeping track of those minutes as time seems to fly by while programming.
Progress Summary
I've got a clear idea in my head of what a level will consist of now so I've started programming the fundamentals needed.
I have created a Tile a…
I'm now 1 hour 50 minutes in to the build. I'm really keeping track of those minutes as time seems to fly by while programming.
Progress Summary
I've got a clear idea in my head of what a level will consist of now so I've started programming the fundamentals needed.
I have created a Tile a…
June 11, 2006
The Hero
GameDev this is The Hero, The Hero this is GameDev.
At the last minute I filled the background yellow for the snapshot in my journal, I have no idea why...
Character Layout
I threw together a Layout Layer first so that all my animation frames will match up correctly and everything will be kept…
GameDev this is The Hero, The Hero this is GameDev.
At the last minute I filled the background yellow for the snapshot in my journal, I have no idea why...
Character Layout
I threw together a Layout Layer first so that all my animation frames will match up correctly and everything will be kept…
June 11, 2006
I've played with SDL and openGL a lot over the last week but haven't really had anything major to show for it. That's because I've been writing utility classes :(
I've really had enough of that and it's about time I wrote something more fullblown so I'd like to announce the beginning of my new proj…
I've really had enough of that and it's about time I wrote something more fullblown so I'd like to announce the beginning of my new proj…
June 08, 2006
Foundations
I've basically been plodding away with all the foundation elements of my game and decided that I'd take a look through the GameDev article section again. I have to take this oppurtunity to recommend that anyone who hasn't read the Enginuity series should take a good look. Although it's…
I've basically been plodding away with all the foundation elements of my game and decided that I'd take a look through the GameDev article section again. I have to take this oppurtunity to recommend that anyone who hasn't read the Enginuity series should take a good look. Although it's…
June 07, 2006
What kind of music do you listen to when programming?
I have to admit that what I listen to depends heavily on my mood and what I'm working on.
Edit: I change my mind... it's hard to qualify
Straightforward and Motivated: Drum and Bass.
Complicated and Motivated: Powerful Classical Music.
Un-Motivated:…
I have to admit that what I listen to depends heavily on my mood and what I'm working on.
Edit: I change my mind... it's hard to qualify
Straightforward and Motivated: Drum and Bass.
Complicated and Motivated: Powerful Classical Music.
Un-Motivated:…
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