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Posted - 6/28/2004 2:37:59 PM | So I was browsing through the books database today, and I noticed something. We have around 400 books listed here, and about half of them don't have any reviews at all. We'd really like the books section to be a comprehensive resource where our visitors can look to see what their peers think of the books they're considering for purchase.
The thing is, I know that in most cases, hundreds if not thousands of our visitors have read these books. So take a minute to look around our books section and see if you can add a review or two, especially for the sad, lonely, reviewless books.
To change gears completely, last night, my wife and I were watching Big Fish (finally), when we heard our cat (Anya) banging around her food dish in the garage - except that she's never that noisy, so my wife went to check on her. She flips on the light, and sees something duck behind our cabinets by the door to the backyard. She looks behind them and sees a black tail sticking out. Assuming it's the black neighbor cat that's been poking around our house lately (Anya's in heat), she rattles around an old ironing board that we have tucked behind there to scare the cat away. Except that the ironing board falls and lands on what turns out to be an extremely pissed off skunk. We know this not because we saw it, but because of the stench that suddenly filled our garage.
If your only experience with smelling skunks is from driving past where one has been killed on the highway, let me just say that you have NO clue how bad it really is.
So now the skunk is hiding underneath our freezer, not moving, and our eyes are watering from the smell. Finally, we were able to get it to leave by opening all the doors and jabbing a stick under the freezer. But then we've got the problem of the smell to deal with. We lit every candle we own, boiled cinnamon, and finally just burned cardboard to try to get rid of the smell. The result? Our entire house now smells like burned skunk. Hopefully after leaving the doors and windows open all day today, the smell will be somewhat bearable.
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Posted - 6/19/2004 5:37:45 PM | Bug fixes and feature enhancements on the new forum and other software have sucked up almost all of my free time over the past several days, which isn't good. Good for the site, I guess, but not so good for my other projects.
Right now, I'm actually working on 3 books - sort of. Although Beginning OpenGL Game Programming shipped in March, Kevin and I are still obliged to put together a resource CD. BOGLGP was written so that it could be used as a text book, so the resource CD will contain slideshows, additional exercises, etc, for instructors. Needless to say, it's not the most exciting thing in the world to work on, which is why we're now 3 weeks late in delivering it.
The next book I'm due to finish (end of July) is OpenGL ES Game Development. I'm doing this with one of my coworkers. OpenGL ES is a subset of OpenGL developed for mobile devices, primarily cell phones. I've spent the past year working on a commecial software implementation of it (which will ship on hundreds of millions of devices), so I know a thing or two about it. Besides OpenGL ES, the book provides a lot of information for anyone doing mobile games, including information on the leading 3D mobile game engines, fixed point math, mobile audio, the business model, a case study of porting a PC game to mobile, and more. We were able to get quite a few leaders in the mobile gaming community to contribute to the book, so it should be quite good.
The third book is Advanced OpenGL Game Programming, which Kevin may or not be involved with. It'll pick up where BOGLGP left off, covering topics such as shaders (both OGLSL and asm shaders), VBOs, PBOs, special effects, occlusion queries, scene management, etc. The book's set to print around GDC next year.
But because of site related issues, I'm not getting a lot done on these books. Fortunately, we've got a number of people helping out (Oluseyi, Michalson, superpig, Sicrane, to name a few), so I should be able to stop spreading myself so thin, and actually get a few things done.
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