August 24, 2004
I thought I would list the books I have bought related to game programming in some way. In no particular order:
- Programming Role Playing Games With DirectX 8 by Jim Adams
- Advanced Animation With DirectX by Jim Adams
- Data Structures For Game Programmers by Ron Penton
- Physics For Game Developers by David…
August 23, 2004
I got a letter this morning inviting me for an interview in two weeks time which I applied for exactly three months ago! It was sent recently as I could tell from the letter head. What the hell kind of place takes three months to respond to your application? It is a job within IT Security and I rea…
August 22, 2004
I have started to write a 3D math library for my game engine. In the spirit of an ancient greek nomenclature I have decided to name it Hades. I have done this because I was getting tired of attributing my development time entirley to designing and want to code something useful and this will be fund…
August 18, 2004
I'm currently reading Data Structures For Game Programmers. I think it is quite a good book. It has been beneficial to me as a knowledge consolidator and has exemplified concepts to me that I had dabbled with but never thought about using to their full potential. One fundamental data structure I ha…
August 13, 2004
I subscribed my CV and details to an online job site and have had three phone calls from three different agencies in the past three days. One of the jobs I turned down because it was only a weeks work installing network infrastructure. The other two I think I sounded a complete moron on the telepho…
August 12, 2004
I am currently at work and have just spent three and a half hours in one of our offices trying desperatley to repair the payroll system. I had to restore from dubious backups and patch up a not-so-standard system with people standing over my shoulder and looking for a scapegoat. If I don't fix it n…
August 11, 2004
At the risk of overusing the journal in one day I thought I would put up a few screens of the last project I was working on. It was an updated 3D clone of the game "Smash TV" [smile] This is before I got bored with it (proper initial planning people!) - it is also when I discovered how much time it…
August 11, 2004
I have done lots of programs in the past to get to grips with DirectX, CAD tools, general graphics rendering, terrain rendering, particle systems, space partitioning, AI, animation etc and have recently been studying rigid body dynamics and physics. I have also been studying how to organise my code…
August 11, 2004
After having signed up I checked the PayPal account and, besides the successful GDNet+ transactions, there was a subscription creation and subscription cancellation entry both with the status "Cancelled". What the hell does that mean?
Ever had one of those days where nothing goes right? I get them s…
Ever had one of those days where nothing goes right? I get them s…
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