Category Archives: Programming

Jan
28
2009

Magnetic Butterfly: Butterfly and a Wrecking Ball

As I indicated in my brief update last week, I did indeed get a Unity Indie license after some time with the free downloadable trial. I’ve never been good at constraining myself to the feature set found in a given game engine or game development toolset before but just a few hours with Unity made [...]

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Jan
20
2009

How I Got Into Games

Every now and then it’s nice to talk about game development; how to get into it, and what it’s like to actually be a professional game developer after years of being a part of game development communities on the Internet. This post was inspired by a blog entry by the ever-fantastic Steve Gaynor. The entry [...]

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Jan
04
2009

iPhone Development Fun

I’ve been plugging away on my iPhone project over my vacation and it’s been pretty rad. which I’m actually developing using an iPod Touch but shortening it from iPhone/iPod Touch to just iPhone is so much easier. I do want to record just how absurd application deployment to an iPhone/iPod Touch is, though. Once an [...]

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Dec
24
2008

iPhone/iPod Touch Game Development

The iPhone/iPod Touch is a pretty rad little platform. It has vastly more powerful hardware and a far greater ease of development than I would have ever expected going into it. The biggest problem for me at the moment is that I don’t actually have a Mac to call my very own. Someone deemed me [...]

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Nov
16
2008

Cubegasm Source Code Release

Short story made shorter: I’m putting my XNA Action/RTS Cubegasm on hold. My framework isn’t nearly robust enough to make the kind of game I want to make and, since this is strictly a hobby project, I’d rather not have to put all of the gameplay on hold while I flesh out the necessary backbone [...]

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Nov
04
2008

Elemental: War of Magic Announced

The game I’ve been working on since I started at Stardock more than a year and a half ago has finally been announced. The game’s official site is at http://www.elementalgame.com/ and it contains several screenshots and pieces of concept art.
Elemental is due out in February 2010.

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Oct
06
2008

Octreegasm

I assumed that it would be in poor form to have every single object in need of collision detection on a frame-by-frame basis to have collision tests performed against every object in the scene aside from itself I figured that now would be the time to add some form of spatial partitioning to my XNA [...]

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