The One With Aldacron's Games, by Aldacron

The Framework

I just ordered three game programming books to add to my ever growing collection - two on terrain rendering and one on game mathematics. I'm fairly obsessive about tech books, even books on tech I rarely use, so much so that I'm willing...

Core Stuff

I posted a few months back that I was trying to escape the resuable code menality with this project. I wanted to just knock out a game and move on to the next one. Even so, I found myself programming to abstract interfaces. Everything was modular...

New Beginnings

I was happily working away on my game when I got a big surprise at the end of February - nearly all of my English classes cancelled the same week. I took advantage of the copious amounts of free time I suddenly had to head back home to Atlanta for abo...

Terrain So Far

I've known for a while that I want to do something with tiles for the terrain. The requirements I have for the view are fairly simple. There's no skybox. The camera is always aimed at the ground and can rotate around, but its rotation along the x-axis is c...

Of Prototypes and New Fonts

Work has been pretty steady since my last entry. It was interrupted for 3 days for the Lunar New Year holiday as I had to head out of town to my in-laws' house. It's times like that I wish I had a laptop.

I knocked up a prototype of the web game i...

Busy Bee Be Me

Busy is my new key word. I'm loving it though. Staying focused and moving forward is always a nice feeling. I did take some time out today to fool around with some things I haven't checked out in a long while - Netbeans

Warnings Are Great

I always compile with full compiler warnings enabled during development. I rebuild after every change to make sure nothing is broken and I continue rebuilding until they are gone. My code is always warning free. And if I incorporate third party code I do m...

Y2038

If you are interested in futureproofing your software, here's a link to keep in your bookmarks folder.

So Many Things

I've been brainstorming a lot lately on things I would like to do. I'm starting to expand my ideas outside of the realm of traditional game development. Well, outside of game development for that matter. One of the ideas I have is for a web-based ...

The Wrong Question

This post has nothing to do with my project or my business. It's just a rant that I want to get off of my chest.

It seems that every year I pick up more pet peeves. Perhaps it's a ...

Back to the Game

So my little side project has been a nice diversion. For the curious, it's a Java DAOC server emulator based on the work done in C# by the Dawn of Light team. It's not a straight port, as I used a different a...

Break time

When I'm into a project, I'm really into it. I mean, I bury myself in my office and only come out long enough to go teach my classes (and to watch Survivor with my wife - which in Korea is about 3 or 4 weeks behind the US, so don't tell me what happen...

Font Rendering and Data Config

Font rendering is in. There was only one little hitch I ran into. When I implemented the texture loader I included code to always flip the loaded image. Since the data Bitmap Font Generator saves is based on a normal, unflipped image, it was...

More silliness

In the last post, I explained how I had found that I had passed the wrong parameter to glfwSleep, causing the app to become unresponsive. That still didn't explain why I kept getting an invalid texture object error in the log file. I discovered today what ...

Oh, the pain!

While trying to debug a texture loading issue, I dropped some code in to the game loop to render a textured quad. Once the bug was squashed and all was working as expected, I deleted the code. A few minutes later, when trying to display my font bitmap ...