Still alive
Hi guys, just a quick note to remind you that I'm still writing (very occasional) blog entries over at http://www.ebonyfortress.com/blog, and would...
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Kylotan's Developer Journal
Member since Mar 2000
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This journal is moribund
As much as I like GameDev.net, I find the journal system here to be underpowered - no tags, no categories, posts disappear from the front page if...
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AI in games
Hello GD Journal, it's been a while. Mostly because the journals are still exceedingly well separated from the rest of the site. I have no idea whose...
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Here's an idea
For so long we've seen newbies come on these forums, and say something like "I have a great idea for a game - how do I get it made?" The slightly...
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Squirrel
Imagine you are a squirrel. You're at the foot of a large oak tree, contemplating climbing it to feast upon the acorny goodness that it offers. You...
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Ivory Towers
It's funny when people appear to live in some parallel dimension where they don't have to contend with the details of real life. Take this quote from...
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Inefficiency
My short time in the games industry - 8 months or so - has been marked by inefficiency. I now have a good idea why games take so long and why so many...
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User-friendly error messages from MS Visual C++
Compiling...\Dev\GameProjects\FSProjects\FSLibs\ServerLogic\Source\Actor_ServerLogic.cpp(1435) : error C2679: binary '=' : no operator found which...
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Magical traffic
I've had 6 or 7 people view this journal today, yet I haven't updated in a couple of weeks. This is above the normal level of traffic when it's...
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Two paradigms for two use cases
I've been arguing about object-relational mappers recently. For those unfamiliar with the concept (and unwilling to check Wikipedia ;) ), it's...
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DirectSound in Windows Vista
Apparently in Windows Vista, DirectSound will no longer be hardware accelerated under Windows Vista, going through the software mixer instead. ie....
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Resistance
The primary problems I face on a daily basis with game development are often down to the amount of trouble you have to go through in order to get...
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schedules
I am starting to learn how games fall behind schedule. An external producer comes in a week before the milestone and proceeds to request wide-ranging...
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Games punishing the player
Sometimes the way a game tells you it wants you to play, is not actually how the game encourages you to play. Recently I've come across two examples...
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Developer publicity
I am very wary of comparing games to films, especially since the analogy is often used by (typically inexperienced) designers to argue that story is...
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Inspiration
The more I work on 'real' games (and it's only been a little over a month so far, I admit), the more it makes me want to get back to working on my...
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Oh dear
Myself and a co-worker are working on a contract for another company, so we have to work with their code and base a lot of our work on it. Today we...
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Status update
Ok, so, some of you may be interested to hear that I'm in the industry now. Developing games, that is. The 'real' stuff, too: not mobile phone...
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Games are not movies (or books, etc)
Here, another poster mistakes games for movies. Nothing against that poster: he's obviously new to things and it's an understandable mistake to make....
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Disillusioned
At the moment I am getting a bit fed up of the way some open-source projects are getting developed.First, Mozilla Firefox. I love the browser and...
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