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July 04, 2011
Granted, I rarely play games. As a direct consequence to this, there are lots of things I'm not good at when playing: I am slow at typing specific keys, I don't see patterns that have been added to please hardcode gamers (you know, things like "if you find a hidden way to a hidden place, then you'l…
February 08, 2011
This is more or less a reminder, as most of you already know this stuff. Here is a (incomplete) list of games whose source code is available, together with links (or, when not available, information on how to retrieve the source code). The origine of this entry can be found on my own personnal Fren…
January 28, 2011
Yep, companones, it's been a tough week. I'm not speaking of work (that, too was a tough week, mostly because bash 2.3 and bash 4.1 do not work the same way, for unknown reasons (apparently, introducing breaking changes that deny the right to exist to myriads of old Makefiles is now called "bug fix…
January 25, 2011
Bur nearly everything doesn't mean everything. For those who believe I'm talking about boost.asio, you're pretty much right as Asio has been incorporated in Boost. However, it exists as a non-Boost library, so I will continue to speak about Asio as Asio, and not boost.asio (there are a few differen…
January 19, 2011
A few days ago, I released version 0.4 of my little security library. This version allows the creation of function pipeline using a simple syntax. If R is the return type of the pipeline and A is its argument type, then
Will construct a pipeline containing…
pipeline p = stage(f1) | f2 | f3 | ... | fn;
Will construct a pipeline containing…
January 10, 2011
Now, that's not a wonderful piece of code, filled with incredible meta-programming snippets. But it's a piece of code that's usable and - more importantly - that can be modified to suit your needs.
So let me introduce you a small part of a large library en devenir. This code encapsulates the blowfi…
So let me introduce you a small part of a large library en devenir. This code encapsulates the blowfi…
December 02, 2007
Heading to the Lyon GDC
I finally managed to get in Lyon tonight, just in time for the beginning of the Lyon Game Developper Conference - an event I have waited for month and month. Organisation is not that simple: there are tons of people in Lyon these days, and I have only one hotel night booked (…
I finally managed to get in Lyon tonight, just in time for the beginning of the Lyon Game Developper Conference - an event I have waited for month and month. Organisation is not that simple: there are tons of people in Lyon these days, and I have only one hotel night booked (…
November 22, 2007
I have been quiet this month (and the one before). It's not that I don't want to do my job here (God knows that I'm happy to work for GameDev.Net) - it's just that my free time has shrinked down to a level I never faced before.
Understand me: even if I am used to work 11h per day, I usually spend h…
Understand me: even if I am used to work 11h per day, I usually spend h…
October 08, 2007
Dear journal,
I had my share of work and other oddities, and because of these I wasn't able to handle the news as often as I wanted. You have to understand me: it's not that I'm a busy man, but I decided to share more time with my girlfriend (she's soo cuuute), I broke my car engine again (but that'…
I had my share of work and other oddities, and because of these I wasn't able to handle the news as often as I wanted. You have to understand me: it's not that I'm a busy man, but I decided to share more time with my girlfriend (she's soo cuuute), I broke my car engine again (but that'…
September 14, 2007
You may have noticed that news posting was a bit chaotic this week - that's because I have a lot to do to return back to France.
Yes, I'm leaving Germany and I'm heading to the sunny Provence (where I'm used to live). Of course, I need to pack everything, and you can imagine that it takes loads of t…
Yes, I'm leaving Germany and I'm heading to the sunny Provence (where I'm used to live). Of course, I need to pack everything, and you can imagine that it takes loads of t…
September 10, 2007
Well, see below to read something which is barely related to the title of this post.
My coverage of the GCDC'07 is on the way. It should appear sometimes today, and contains a lot of things. I would like to thank both Drew (that forgave me my slowness) and Felix Kerger (Mirlix on GameDev.Net) who (u…
My coverage of the GCDC'07 is on the way. It should appear sometimes today, and contains a lot of things. I would like to thank both Drew (that forgave me my slowness) and Felix Kerger (Mirlix on GameDev.Net) who (u…
September 08, 2007
I mean, this GeForce FX 5600TX is just too lame, and I just can't accept that anymore. So I went to Staurn in the Stuttgart town center and I bought an AGP GeForce 7600 GS (the one by MSI, with 256MB DDR2; see here for the benchmark results). It was cheap, and it's supposed to be good enough - at l…
August 30, 2007
Welcome to this new feature!
The goal of GameDev.Net's Beta Pick is to present a beta product that we believe is of interest to you despite the fact that it has not yet reached version 1.0. As you may have seen in the past month, we no longer feature beta products on our front page - except for exce…
The goal of GameDev.Net's Beta Pick is to present a beta product that we believe is of interest to you despite the fact that it has not yet reached version 1.0. As you may have seen in the past month, we no longer feature beta products on our front page - except for exce…
August 24, 2007
And that's now time for a short explaination of my 3rd day at the GCDC. And it's going to shock you: I had little time to attend any talk, as it turned out to be a "omg I got tons of people to meet" day.
And all meetings were not equal - although all of them were interesting, as they offered me the…
And all meetings were not equal - although all of them were interesting, as they offered me the…
August 23, 2007
Day 2 of the GCDC (yeah, I know, you are all waiting for the real coverage. It's coming, it's coming) was a bit less hard to handle - partly because I wanted to take the time to actually discuss with the game developers, so I decided to drop a few talks.
And everything began really (for me, at lea…
And everything began really (for me, at lea…
August 21, 2007
Hello Everyone,
So the GCDC in Leipzig has begun, and believe me, it's quite good. Speakers are incredible and I have the feeling that quality is going to improve even more on day 2 and 3.
What did I attended on day 1? Well, because of some issue with the registration process (including the fact tha…
So the GCDC in Leipzig has begun, and believe me, it's quite good. Speakers are incredible and I have the feeling that quality is going to improve even more on day 2 and 3.
What did I attended on day 1? Well, because of some issue with the registration process (including the fact tha…
August 14, 2007
I posted 4321 posts before this one. Not very important. Ok, let's consider the other part of the message.
As some of you noticed, there was a poll about the frontpage news (that I have hard time to handle; brain slow; me sick; going to be faster tomorrow).
I'd like to address the main answers:
As some of you noticed, there was a poll about the frontpage news (that I have hard time to handle; brain slow; me sick; going to be faster tomorrow).
I'd like to address the main answers:
- Reall…
August 08, 2007
I modified my C# workshop project to
1) add big rooms from time to time
2) make bigger mazes (this one is 100x100).
It is not guaranteed to have only one path from two points in the maze, but it should be quite teh fun to solve:
click here for normal size
Good luck!
Code is here
1) add big rooms from time to time
2) make bigger mazes (this one is 100x100).
It is not guaranteed to have only one path from two points in the maze, but it should be quite teh fun to solve:
click here for normal size
Good luck!
Code is here
August 08, 2007
Deutsche Telekom is suing me for unpaid bills (540EUR). I won't pay the bills. Reason: while it is true that I picked up a phone line some months ago, DT never did their job properly. After two phone calls (the latest has even been ended rather bluntly by the operator who was not able to speak Engl…
August 07, 2007
If you ever own a MG ZR, try to NOT breakdown. And if you breakdown, pray to avoid the utterly classical cylinder head gasket problem. That's actually why I was not able to post news yesterday: I had to find a way to overcome my credit card limitation (I can't pay/withdraw more than 770EUR per day …
August 04, 2007
Richard announced it - so that's no more a suprise. GameDev.Net, together with NVIDIA and Softimage, proudly present you the new GameDev.Net contest, Shade Your World!
Width this contest, you can win a GeForce 8800 GTX, a license to use SOFTIMAGE|XSI Foundation or the overexcellent new book GPU Gems…
Width this contest, you can win a GeForce 8800 GTX, a license to use SOFTIMAGE|XSI Foundation or the overexcellent new book GPU Gems…
July 31, 2007
We are preparing something for you, dear comrades. And I'm pretty sure you're going to enjoy it. A lot.
Now, that was probably my shortest journal post.
Official announce in a few days... Or before. That's a surprise too.
Now, that was probably my shortest journal post.
Official announce in a few days... Or before. That's a surprise too.
July 30, 2007
In the process of preparing the GCDC, I decided to make use of a promotional offer from VistaPrint and I ordered a set of 250 color business cards (along with two aluminium boxes). It cost me a completely-impossible-to-pay 2.95EUR (or something along the line) for the cards + 16EUR for the boxes. A…
July 28, 2007
We have decided to promote four guys in the news team - Morgan Ramsey (better known as, well, Morgan Ramsey), Dan Merritt (better known as DigiDude), Pavel Pod (Pasha_Bigdog) and Brad Leffler (Schmedly).
This shall mean: more news for you! (and consequently, less time to read them as they're goign …
This shall mean: more news for you! (and consequently, less time to read them as they're goign …
July 09, 2007
Today's schedule
* posted some news.
* had some mail discussion
* posted some news
* had some mail discussion
* broke the 4000 post barrier!
Hence the title...
* posted some news.
* had some mail discussion
* posted some news
* had some mail discussion
* broke the 4000 post barrier!
Hence the title...
May 29, 2007
It's been a while since I haven't updated my journal. So here it is.
First, I'm quite happy to have exceeded my desires for my French blog. I was targetting 200 to 300 visit per month after one year, and I am currently at 700 visit per month after 10 month. OK, the numbers are ridiculous. But I'm s…
First, I'm quite happy to have exceeded my desires for my French blog. I was targetting 200 to 300 visit per month after one year, and I am currently at 700 visit per month after 10 month. OK, the numbers are ridiculous. But I'm s…
May 09, 2007
Not much to say for this palindromic post.
I updated my French blog with an article about designing a message handling system for a Win32 based GUI - but that's more or less a better explaination of what I already did on this journal last year.
I just began to work on a new project (it will not be …
I updated my French blog with an article about designing a message handling system for a Win32 based GUI - but that's more or less a better explaination of what I already did on this journal last year.
I just began to work on a new project (it will not be …
May 07, 2007
The fmx/07 is finished (but you already know that, don't you?), it's not time to go back to my redular schedule: return to work, debug, code, debug, and so on. That's a bit less exciting than discussing with bright people from everywhere in the world.
These four days were a bit tough, but very enjoy…
These four days were a bit tough, but very enjoy…
May 06, 2007
I left you right before I attended the two last sessions of the day (in teh game development track, I mean). That was also right before the EA party (I'll try to explain you that later [smile]).
The first one, by Nanette Kaulig, dealt with the approach used by the animation team at Lionhead to crea…
The first one, by Nanette Kaulig, dealt with the approach used by the animation team at Lionhead to crea…
May 04, 2007
Hello pals! (and others)
This is the fourth and last day of the fmx - not a bad thing considering that I'm more tired than if I had to run 30km per hour during 12h. But that mean that I will see less frenchies (because there are a lot of French people out there), and less beautiful girls (because th…
This is the fourth and last day of the fmx - not a bad thing considering that I'm more tired than if I had to run 30km per hour during 12h. But that mean that I will see less frenchies (because there are a lot of French people out there), and less beautiful girls (because th…
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