Engine, video player and tools, tools tools!

Engine, video player and tools, tools tools!

So these past 2 weeks I’ve been adding some “bits and bytes” to the engine. Taking a rest between some more complex game mechanisms I decided to start doing a video player. After a bit research I decided to choose theora, but a bit skeptic, I’ve used it before on a game company I worked [...]

How to Restore the Windows 7 MBR (Master Boot Record)

How to Restore the Windows 7 MBR (Master Boot Record)

So I had this crisis where the MBR got broken and Windows would not boot. This can happens for many reasons, maybe you tried to dual boot your PC and something went wrong. Anyway where’s a quick tip on how to fix it (You need a Windows 7 DVD of course)! 1 – Boot your [...]

Find/Replace in Visual Studio using regular expressions

Find/Replace in Visual Studio using regular expressions

Usually Find/Replace gets the job done for what I need, although sometimes using “Replace All” can break more stuff that it fixes. But today I had this function I wanted to get rid of and simple change it with a public variable. So I had something like this. object->setLayer(/*BLABAL BLA CODE, */); I want to [...]

post mortem of another year

post mortem of another year

Another year has gone by, not quite what I was expecting developing wise, like putting another game out there, but things never turned out as planned. Still over the last year I’ve gradually saw out little Different Pixel brand reaching more and more places which can be very helpful in the future and sure hell [...]