QuakeCon 2012 – John Carmack Keynote
I usually don’t do this, but come on, it’s John Carmack, and this 3h30m keynote given at QuakeCon 2012 is fascinating.
Gamedev is like a house of cards
It all starts so pretty isn’t it? A clean project, a quick prototype, it works! It’s beautiful. Now it’s time to add more features, everything is planned out, all cogs...
Dary’s Legend development Timelapse sample
Working on Dary’s Legend has been my daily routine so I decided to make a time lapse. So this is a video compiled using Chronolapse, by taking a screenshot every...
Dary’s Legend First Teaser
So, yeah I know I’ve been a little lazy about my blog it’s for a good cause. We decided to release a small teaser showing what we have. I can’t...
Xbox 360 Controller Input in C++ via XInput
So you have that Xbox360 controller laying around and want to connect it to your game? On XNA this is an out of the box option but if you’re using...
Screenies time…
We finally released some screenshots of Dary’s Legend. Lately I’ve been working on the light system and fog of war for the game, it’s visible on the images. Here’s the...
New game…
New game, called Dary’s Legend, a roguelike, dungeon crawling type. This is what I’ve been working on lately, and … well not much more to say. I’ll try and...
Where do you like games to store their save data?
Quick question. I’m trying to decide where my next game should store their save files so I decided to make a poll. Personally I think that C:/Users/$USER$/AppData/Local/C:/Users/$USER$/AppData/Local/ is a total...
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...
Basalt code swarm
I discovered code swarm a while ago and decided to test on my own repositories. This is a test on Basalt, and although I’ve been working on the engine since...
something new in the horizon…
So I’ve been out for quite some time, and this is just a quick update. First, I have tones of unread, thus answered emails on my inbox. I haven’t managed...
Hurry you only have 16 ms to render everything
So I’ve been working on my new game and I’m doing some tweaks here and there on the engine. Mainly with the rendering section, trying to squeeze as much as...