Posted in Game development, Programming and Development on Sep 30th, 2007
I have always been interested in soft-body physics, but this is one of those algorithms which promises to stand out of the crowd. While soft body simulations have been under considerable research, their applications to the games in general have been limited. That is due to the fact that such simulations are complex and time […]
Posted in Game development, Programming and Development, Software on Sep 13th, 2007
Recently Microsoft released version 1.0 of it’s “cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web”, called Silverlight. Last week I had a sneak peek at the software and I was presently surprised to see that Microsoft is also developing a Linux version of […]
Posted in General, Gamedev, Game development on Sep 6th, 2007
It seems like when it’s Google, they can find a marketing edge anywhere. Google is all set to take it’s advertisements for website service a step further and actually have “AdSense for Games”. Those annoying ads that fill up a website, well now will appear in your favorite games too. I doubt if major […]
Posted in Gamedev, Game development, O2 Engine, Programming and Development on Aug 6th, 2007
My quest for a scripting system for the O2 Engine continues. This blog is a continuation of the “Selecting a scripting engine” series. You can check out the first part here. I tried a couple of different approaches to try and attack the problem. I am currently in prototyping mode and things and decisions can […]
Posted in Gamedev, Game development, News, Programming and Development on Jul 30th, 2007
FX composer RC1
NVIDIA released the release candidate of the FX composer not too long ago. I downloaded and gave it a “breezy” try, but I don’t see GLSL support! Maybe I missed it. Why is there no GLSL support? Nothing is mentioned on the site as well. This is what the site says about API […]
Posted in General, Game, Game development on Jul 27th, 2007
We are currently working out gameplay issues in the Doofus game and I am working on some serious tweaks to the A* algorithm used in the game. One of the feedback from beta testers was the movement of the enemies was somewhat robotic with very sharp turns. Fortunately all the enemies in the game are […]
Posted in Game development, Doofus Game, Software on Jul 19th, 2007
For our entire game project the 3D modeling and animation package we have used is Blender. It was pretty much used to make the main character and all the mesh assets in the game excepting the world. We are using another software package for world creation and scene composition, but more on that later. I […]
Posted in Gamedev, Game development, O2 Engine, Programming and Development on Jul 11th, 2007
Last weekend I finally decided to look into a long standing issue. Integrating a scripting system into the engine. There is no denying scripting systems add immense flexibility to a game engine and I intend to provide one to the O2 Engine as well. A little bit of history into scripting system for the O2 […]
Posted in Game, Game development, Doofus Game, O2 Engine on Jul 6th, 2007
Some preview of the lighting technology used in the game. This is not an in-depth explanation of it, but is just a preview so don’t expect technical details here. Maybe sometime later, (I will fill in the details) or you can just ask and I will be glad to explain it.
The lighting in Doofus works […]