Building HashForge: Turning a Simple Browser Mining Idea Into a Full Game
When I first started working on HashForge, the idea was much smaller than what it has become.The original concept was simple: create a browser game...
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Prototyping looking for fun
I'm at an semi-interesting point in my project right now where I have working tech to build a game and I have a basic game idea. That means trying to...
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Well that was a bit long
I had been planning on increasing the time between journal posts so I'd have more to talk about that might be interesting to folks but I didn't...
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When the Right thing can be the Wrong thing
[font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif][size=2]For 98% of us working on side projects the biggest obstacle to reaching the finish line isn't a lack...
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More Low Lights
Wrapping up CollisionsI finished up passing collision events to individual objects at the end of last week and that went absolutely swimmingly. At...
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I am speechless
I didn't think that there would ever be a worse PR vehicle for the games industry than the reality show "The Tester" on PSN. Really how do you top a...
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I've been quiet but not lazy :)
It's been way too long since my last entry but it's not for lack of trying. Real life has been busy with a crazy couple of weeks at work along with a...
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GDC and "Quality" games <mini-rant>
There's already been a lot of buzz from the Nintendo keynote at GDC and I'm sure there's going to be more in the next few weeks following GDC. It's...
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Physics Library suggestions anyone?
I'm at the point where I want to start integrating a physics engine into my game. In the past I've always used ODE but it looks like that project has...
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Bye bye XML, hello Lua
A few nights of coding again gets me in a situation where I have the exact same output from my engine but I'm in a far better place! I completed the...
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It's not just output anymore!
Well the last couple of nights I've had some time to do some work and managed to get the input side of the house in order. I created an input...
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Multiple Dynamic Lights
I put the finishing touches on my basic lighting model this weekend. Nothing too special but I can now have an arbitrary number of lights passed into...
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Don't worry, I'm slow and dumb too.
One of the best parts about the journals here on GD.net is seeing the progress others are making on their project/games. It never ceases to amaze me...
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Let there be light
I had some coding time tonight so I started to dive into adding some lighting to my fragment shader. So far everything is very hard coded but I was...
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My Development Toolset
One of the goals on my current project was to be completely cross platform. To force myself down that path I targeted doing all of my development in...
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Baby camera steps
One of the biggest challenges for me when working on a project is to fight off the natural lulls in work. When you're working on a game idea and...
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Sometimes it's better to find a used wheel
I'm a big proponent of not recreating the wheel. There's so much great open source code out there now a days that you can get working code for almost...
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A new screeny
I've been on the road for the past few days so I don't have a tonne of new progress but I did manage to get some simple textured quads working with...
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Hi, I'm data. I'll be your driver today.
In my last post about implementing a component based object model I also mentioned my drive to become data driven. When I looked into building a data...
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The brave new object model
A few years ago when I was reaching the end of my multi-threaded game engine project I ran across the following...
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