The project is now three months old, today. That means I have uploaded the current game for anyone to play around with. It's clunky and has a tendency to crash, but as long as it works it's kind of enjoyable!
If you follow my blog (I actually think a couple of people do, which blew me away completel…
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The image atop the entry is from my last game test. Although the polygon style is becoming problematic (it's an optimization issue), it shows an unexpected result of the world generation. I have programmed …
UPDATE: I ran a test with more realistic colors, crudely applied. Before reading, view the results here (click to enlarge)!
Someone recently responded to a post of mine by asking if they could see my code. This sent me into a deep existential conflict! Fact is, I am a huge proponent of open source. …
I thought I'd do something a bit more 'normal' for once and just make an entry about where I am in the development process. I may do this more in the future, since this actually seems to be a place where people read what I write. My daily environment is sooooo annoyingly sane and normal. It's bad f…
I never took classes on programming. Back in the Ancient Times, I picked up a ridiculously thin book on programming for the ZX Spectrum my dad had bought for the family. I was maybe 7 at the time, and me and my dad sat down and input the small programs (less than 100 lines, IIRC) that were in the b…
I like time travel. The Embassy of Time is a big display of that. It is designed to include books (currently being written), comics (being slowly drafted), movies/animation (storyboards are being revamped from an earlier, failed attempt), and of course, games, like what I have talked about in here.…
As I am finally coming out of a 5 days (and counting...) long battle with a particularly annoying flu due to wildly shifting weather (go Denmark!), I was beginning to sort in my head the things I have wanted to blog about here when I, instead, was blowing ooze through half my orifices and gasping f…
So I was just over at the story forum. I was a bit sad to see it sorely underused, since I am taking a short break from hard scientific programming to focus on my story. The thing is, my story is not exactly a game story, it's a story story. As in, I'm not writing it to explain the game or to provi…
As usual, I lead with an image from my latest round of testing. Planets now form hills and valleys, and here the nearby star is seen rising above the horizin of one. Things are moving forward.
But I'm not here to brag (in part because "it makes nice pictures" is not quite worth bragging rights, IMHO…
I finally got the fundamentals working on star, planet and moon generation in my project to make a procefurally generated universe. Hooray for me! But with the basics out of the way, I am facing the next step: Making it better than 'basic'. And that leads me into some thinking...
It was always my in…
(a quick note: While I post some WIP images in here along with my blog entries, I have an image gallery of both more WIP and laughable failures here, as well)
So that last entry got the debate going, didn't it! I swear, if good debates were easy to start, we wouldn't even need an education system. I…
Whelp.... My last attempt at spurring some conversation was a bit of a bust. Over 1000 views in 24 hours, which is amazing to me, but despite strongly encouraging people to say hello, not a single comment. I'm not angry or sad (okay, a teeny bit sad), but it does seem to indicate that people both h…
(I technically wrote my last entry the late evening of April 7., so this is still a blog-a-day thing. No, really! Hey, stop chuckling!)
In my first blog post on GameDev, there is a comment from the creator of GameDev, which mentions how common it is for people to read and not comment. I thought litt…
(Note: Despite my bold start, I will not be able to keep up a post per day, so enjoy it while it lasts. Or enjoy that it won't last)
In my last entry, long-time listener and friend of the show, Cozzie, noted that it seemed implausible for a game to ever use procedural generation (PG, or ProGen for t…
A comment to my previous blog entry was pretty right on the nose: Stream of consciousness. I do that a lot, thinking as I write and ending up writing my thoughts down more or less as they come to me. I'll try something else this time around, but do go to that entry and see if my thoughts don't happ…
Ahhh... Always start with a decade old Batman quote... Makes you seem uptodate!
At the end of this, I will run a little test. Not of anyone reading it, per se, but of the notion of writing here. See, I grew up in the olden days, and actually had a pen friend. For a few months. As part of a mandatory…
