Posted in work, programming on July 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Came across this post on programming.reddit.com today (the programming reddit has been one my guilty pleasures lately). The author has some good tips on staying in the zone. I have some tips of my own as I enjoy the feeling of being in the zone and lament when I’m not.
While it’s nice to get rid […]
Posted in tabula rasa on July 20th, 2007 No Comments »
http://www.warcry.com/news/view/75046-WarCrys-E3-2007-Awards
We got a nice mention from warcry with this caveat ‘The field at E3 2007 was somewhat limited - to say the least’
The true test will be when the game goes live and we are competing against established MMOs. Lately I’ve been losing myself in the combat alone. The things I enjoy the most about […]
Posted in game programming, xna, shmup, sample code, csharp on July 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I recently received a comment asking for details on the terrain generation algorithm I used in my XNA shoot ‘em up proof of concept. Here’s my edited reply and sample code for anyone interested.
It’s not very complex and it doesn’t do any culling currently because I didn’t find that to be a problem given the […]
Posted in game programming, tabula rasa on July 19th, 2007 No Comments »
http://kotaku.com/gaming/e307/best-of-e3-our-picks-279860.php
Now granted this isn’t Gamespy, IGN or 1up but that’s a good thing. I have been reading kotaku for a few years now and I respect their opinion on games. They haven’t had back stage access or been flown out to Austin to check out the game so this is based solely on their E3 […]
Posted in programming, python on July 12th, 2007 No Comments »
I was working on an in-memory database prototype in python and decided I didn’t want to keep manually running the unit tests so I whipped up a little auto test script that I can run in another terminal.
autotest.py
It’s very simple it relies on a static list of files and an internal cache of the […]
Posted in work, tabula rasa on July 11th, 2007 No Comments »
This video shows off some of the new abilities creatures and armor. Personally I’m having a lot of fun playing as each build is getting more and more fun.
Posted in games on July 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Played some Gears of War Sunday night and while I have played a lot of multiplayer the game takes on a whole new characteristic when you’re playing it with a bunch of good friends. We had a 4 player game going between Seattle, Austin and Pheonix with Jamie and myself playing the Locust hilarity ensued. […]