PlayFab Game Jam Postmortem
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a 48-hour game jam hosted by PlayFab here in Seattle, with fellow procedural planet veteran Alex Peterson, my...
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PlayFab Game Jam Postmortem
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a 48-hour game jam hosted by PlayFab here in Seattle, with fellow procedural planet veteran Alex Peterson, my...
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Data permanence (or a lack thereof)
When Google VP Vint Cerf warned that increased dependence on technology could lead to a 'digital dark age', he merely echoed the concern of everyone...
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Approaches to Resource Disposal
I'm working on developing a novel programming language, working title 'aevum'. As part of that process, I'll be writing a series of articles about...
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Fun with commas
This thread over at GameDev got me thinking, "can one assign Python-like tuples in C++?"I don't want to pollute the thread in For Beginners with that...
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Bidding a Freelance Contract
Although I am gainfully employed at present, in the past I have made a good portion of my living in freelance work: websites, Facebook applications,...
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Logarithmic Spiral Distance Field
I have been playing around with distance field rendering, inspired by some of Inigo Quilez's work. Along the way I needed to define analytic distance...
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The price of progress
I recently installed the beta of Microsoft Office 2010, and the first thing that struck me is how it performs noticeably worse on my 3.0 GHz...
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RFC 1149 implemented
This one goes out to all the networking students in the house:Wired reports that a firm in South Africa successfully demonstrated that data...
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simplui 1.0.4 released
New in this version:Support for multiple windowsJava-style flow layoutFull batchingNumerous performance enhancements and bug fixesMinor theme...
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Community News
Various things have been snowballing recently, with the result that both development and blogging have fallen by the wayside. A few interesting...
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simplui 1.0.3 released
No major features this time, instead a slew of small bug fixes, an update to the API, and the rendering code has been rewritten for performance...
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Simplui 1.0.2 released
The default themes provided by simpluiToday brings the 1.0.2 release of simplui. This is a beta release, previewing major enhancements, and I need as...
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Starfall: planet rendering
I just posted a quick youtube video to demonstrate the current state of the planet renderer. This is early development stuff, and the eye candy is...
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simplui 1.0.1 released
I am going to be performing a number of small releases for simplui over the next few weeks, as features are added and bugs are patched.Today's 1.0.1...
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