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 General, Programming and Development on Jul 25th, 2007
Do you feel your eyes getting stressed out after staring at the computer screen for too long? If you answered “Yes” to the question, then this is for you.
No, it is not another eye exercise, it is a nifty tweak for your Windows XP system that I happened to run across. It will take about […]
Posted in Programming and Development on Jul 22nd, 2007
Ah yes, so you want to make your new program/software cross-platform. Sure you can, just make sure you understand properly what it takes to write robust cross-platform software. If you haven’t written any cross-platform software thus far, then chances are you have no clue what is exactly needed. Writing truly scalable, robust and error-free cross-platform […]
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 […]
A few months back I ran into a friend on mine who was on and on about Oblivion. For those who are blissfully ignorant, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an action oriented role playing game by Bethesda Softworks. He was so persuasive, that I finally got hold of the game and decided […]
Posted in Personal on Jul 14th, 2007
Ah! Finally found some time to update the web-site. The main index page was rather drab and unattractive with very little on it except some techie nerdy stuff. Well it still does, what did you expect from a techi nerd, but added some spice by installing a random image display component. Looks kinda neat, if […]
Posted in Fun, Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2007
“Hee haw haw ha! Be careful, its Friday the thirteenth!”
So what is the old superstition surrounding this morbid date in the calender? Well I decided to do some quick googling around to find out. It seems that Friday the 13th is among the oldest superstitions around. Or at least in the western world it is. […]
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 […]