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Samsonite
September 30, 2007
Goodbye, Gamedev!
It's been a long time since I last updated my journal. The reasons are plenty, and most of them also why I won't be updating any further.

School
School has been a major factor in my lack of updates. Since January I have managed to score 4 A* and 7 A's on my Upper Secondary certification aswell as s…
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Samsonite
January 23, 2007
Find your pillow, boring entry inbound...
Recently I've been working on random stuff, mostly non-graphical, like scripting and now also a difference engine.
However when reading on STL iterators, I found a "bug" in Cprogramming.com s tutorial, as you can see an excerpt from here:

The old approach (avoid)
using namespace std;

vector<int>…
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Samsonite
January 08, 2007
Untitled
I promise I'll give you some kind of screenie of some game/demo I am working on the next time, but right now I am trying to develop a script system(similiar to Sir Sapo's) and I've run into some problems right now it's that my file just won't open(even after countless path changings etc).

So if you'…
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Samsonite
December 26, 2006
Merry Christmas!
So, to copy Mark the Artists nice little competition, which of the below teenagers are me?



I will reveal it in the next post.

On another note I got a 22" HD LCD screen for christmas, it's sooo cool. Now I can enjoy the next generation games fully [grin].

I'm gonna go and see the West Wing season 7, s…
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Samsonite
December 09, 2006
Untitled
This week has been quite fun. I worked from 00:30 PM to 04:30PM each day. It involved playing basketball, football and dodgeball with kids at school.

I've been trying to make a map loader which reads bytes from a file and uses that info for rendering the map(Using OpenGL). I thought reading each by…
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Samsonite
November 30, 2006
Scrolling Demo
I have a little demo here, it's the best I could do in ~1 hour(I consider that quite good given my nature to abandon my simple projects) [smile]

Here is the .exe:

ScrollingDemo

And here is the code for those who wish to take a look:

SourceCode

Basicaly, the program just scrolls a hardcoded map. You use …
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Samsonite
November 24, 2006
New PC
My mom has always wanted a real PC, so now we've bought one and I'm ready to play some Membrane Massacre!

Unfortunately I don't have the code for ETI so I'm going to start a short project which can be done in a day or two.

See you all later, I'am off playing MM [smile]
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Samsonite
November 20, 2006
Untitled
Hello, my PC crashed again.





Well technically it didn't really crash. I had this windows activation thing going on, and since I cannot log on to Windows without it being activated and I can't connect to the internet before I have logged into Windows(activation requires the internet), I tried reinstal…
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Samsonite
November 20, 2006
Untitled
Hello, my PC crashed again.





Well technically it didn't really crash. I had this windows activation thing going on, and since I cannot log on to Windows without it being activated and I can't connect to the internet before I have logged into Windows(activation requires the internet), I tried reinstal…
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Samsonite
November 13, 2006
Progress.
Hello!

I'm so happy with the way things are going. I managed to iron out some bugs aswell as implement simple enemy AI(including shooting). However the AI is not the fancy stuff I made last time. It's all if(enemy > player) enemy.x++ EX.
No AITarget->y here [grin].
This means that I won't be ab…
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Samsonite
November 11, 2006
Progress.
Ok. Here is a more optimistic post. I'm now going to detail my progress on Extra Terrestrial Invasion.

I have:

-Restructured the folders of the project
-Deleted unnescesary files
-Made some feeble attempts at text-rendering
-Did a little change to the Rendering engine

Right now I'm thinking: "Why the hel…
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Samsonite
November 11, 2006
Text Rendering.......GRRRR
Hi,

My name is Samsonite, and I hate text rendering.

Thats it.
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Samsonite
November 10, 2006
Progress.
So, today I wanted to do something I have never done before, and that is sound. So I decided to use SDL_mixer, as I've heard it is quite simple.
But I still can't get it to compile. The problems seems to be that I have an independent function called void SetUp(). Ok, so I was naive enough to make a …
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Samsonite
November 07, 2006
Soooo do I have a heading?
Yes.

I have decided to continue working on Extra Terrestrial Invasion, which I hope to have finished by christmas.

What I've been working on
I can't keep myself. I have to make a journal update with more than just text, so here goes my first project-oriented post in a long time.

Blending
Yes, believe it…
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Samsonite
November 05, 2006
I'll be damned!
Guess who found the source for ExtraTerrestrial invasion?

Guess who's happy [grin]!
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Samsonite
November 05, 2006
Ugh.
Daily tasks set for Monday:
-Write a newspaper collumn describing human rights violations in Russia/China/US or any other country(haven't decided yet, 2.5 pages)
-Write a 2.5 page about a book that we are supposed to have read already(I'm halfway with the book)
-I should be working on my music project…
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Samsonite
November 04, 2006
GDNet?
What's this talk about GDNet getting slow? I haven't noticed.
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Samsonite
October 21, 2006
IQ tests
Quote:
Congratulations, Oyvind!
Your IQ score is 118


This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.

Your Intellectual Type is Precision Processor. This means you're exceptionally good at discovering quic…
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Samsonite
October 05, 2006
Untitled
My internet is down, so I'm writing this from an internet cafe.
Won't get Internet back before 3 weeks from now.
Gonna make a new game, design it and everything. I have a backup disk now [smile].

Cya, gotta go home.
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Samsonite
September 14, 2006
Shit.
I won't believe this. On monday when I returned from school(been a week with my mum), I turned the computer on and I was met with this message:

"Failed to boot because BOOT.INI was not found".

Shit.

So my dad told me to keep the pc running and see what happens. Then, after a while:

"The following files…
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Samsonite
September 09, 2006
Untitled
I forgot to say that I can't work on the project this week, because my mum uses MAC OS X. So I have a different update in store for you.

The day before yesterday was a dramatic day for our class. My dad predicted this would happen and that this is just normal the last year at high-school. But I don'…
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Samsonite
September 04, 2006
Fixed demo
Seems like texture dimensions are the problem. Some of you have an older version of OpenGL(1.1 or so) so it doesn't support textures ! power of 2.
Maybe that's also causing the slowdown on certain computers [smile].

Final testing on my mums computer later today, then I will upload(this fucking school…
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Samsonite
September 03, 2006
HAH!
I have an AI DEMO in store for you!

Basicly all you can do is navigate your ship around and the AI will do stuff.

Oh, and there's no shooting, alas no blood - sorry!

Read the notes.txt for more info [smile].

Thank you very very very much for testing it out and giving me feedback. I have worked a week t…
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Samsonite
August 27, 2006
hahaa, what a mess
Remember my post about memory management? Well, turns out it was just VS 2005 weeping over some kind of "exception". You know - that "Just-In-Time" debugger which I can't disable because my VS is the beta so I can't get into the program anymore(M$ disabled that a few weeks ago)...doh.

"Just-In-Time"…
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Samsonite
August 20, 2006
Skide
I almost forgot to say that me and my buddy and his buddy are making a company. Mainly based around PHP scripts but also games.

And we just got our webpage.

Skide.net
And forum:
forums.skide.net

Everything is programmed by me and my buddy. No premade scripts [smile].
On a second note, there's nothing th…
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Samsonite
August 20, 2006
Text game and memory inmanagement
Damn, I hate memory management. It's a pain in the arse to store all allocated memory and then find a way to delete it again(without making the program crash). That's why I have stopped the progress on my 2D game and rather make a text game(C++ Workshop made me do it).

The text game is doing good. S…
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Samsonite
August 15, 2006
Progress.
Phew, I've done "alot" of programming lately. The first thing I did(which I did over a week ago) was to add HTML support for my logging system(including bold and colored text [grin]). The next thing I did, which I started on thursday was to make a 2D sidescroller....

Yeah, it failed, but I accomplis…
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Samsonite
July 29, 2006
My Logger system!
Yay! My first completed project with some weight in it!

I present to you my very own logging system!
I'm honored if anyone can just test it out and give me some feedback as to what to do with it next. [smile] Currently only supports text files. Oh, and it's C++!

Thanks!

EDIT: version 0.6 is up [smile] …
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Samsonite
July 28, 2006
Untitled
This man and his wife needs your sympathies.



On a nother note, I returned from my trip around europe. Me and my brother took off last tuesday and drove to Copenhagen where we watched Tour de France and later went to the Tivoli(amusement park). Fun. [smile]

The next day we drove to Esbjerg, and we wen…
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Samsonite
July 16, 2006
Untitled
I've decided to enter the 4E5 contest. I will use BMAX as it is the most convenient for me. I will still do some OpenGL and C++ but I will be working most on my 4E5. Unless I fail - which I usually do...

Cheers,
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