After talking with @Sunflash93 on twitter (find their blog here), I got to thinking I should post about how I designed the ability system in my game Z-Com. See my previous blog post for more info about the game. In … Continue reading
I’ve been busy. Like a manic coder on a mission busy, and I love it. I haven’t been this driven about anything in a long time, and I am loving every second of it. About a month ago, Joel Martinez introduced … Continue reading
In speaking with Joel Martinez about my most recent game project, we got to the point of talking about finishing a game, and he mentioned something about animation. A friend of mine had developed part of a game engine I had … Continue reading
Back in the MS-DOS era, I was a PC gamer. One of my favorites was a cult classic called UFO: Enemy Unknown, which introduced the entire X-COM series. I still play it to this day… it has major replay value. … Continue reading
Things have been pretty hectic for me lately. I have 3 week old twins and barely enough time to do much of anything for myself. My coding comes in bits and pieces here and there, but I have managed to … Continue reading
I know I read this one, but I completely missed my own name in it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/xna/archive/2010/03/18/creators-club-communiqu-46.aspx Pretty amazing, and I only saw it thanks to a pingback. Now I have to get back into XNA… I miss it and I … Continue reading
While reading all the latest WP7 buzz, I got to thinking that I am going to need some way of managing input between devices so as not to have a billion #if WINDOWS_PHONE or #if XBOX preprocessor statements all over … Continue reading
I purchased an HTC Ozone (upgradable to WM6.5), and a couple months later the Droid came to Verizon. Needless to say, I was upset, but there was nothing I could do about it. Enter Microsoft: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/microsoft-talks-windows-phone-7-series-development-ahead-of-gdc/ http://blogs.msdn.com/ckindel/archive/2010/03/04/different-means-better-with-the-new-windows-phone-developer-experience.aspx That’s right… XNA … Continue reading
Nick Gravelyn posted something that I thought people might find useful: http://nickgravelyn.com/2010/01/using-interpolators-and-timers/ Using this code would nearly trivialize the use of interpolating intro/outro type effects. I like it!
No video this time (yet), but I wanted to post to let anyone who is interested know that I have been making some slow progress with BeatPong. I just committed revision 20 which showcases a single particle system that is … Continue reading