Finishing up AG Patch
I have made many changes since my last post, mostly in two areas, sound tracing, and NPC crystal usage.The sound tracing is a system whereby I trace...
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1.2 Almost ready...
Every time we add a new level, it exposes latent bugs in the code that didn't show up in other levels.We are adding another area to cavecity2 ( the...
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Implicit Dependencies...
As I'm wrapping up the 1.2 Ancient Galaxy patch, I think back on some of the challenges I've had with the AG Engine and why it can be somewhat of a...
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AI & Camera Tweaks
Made some more AI tweaks. The AI NPCs now will investigate a suspicious sound, and track the average location of various dangerous sounds they hear...
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Sound Paths
Ran some in-game profiling over the past couple of days and found sound pathing tracing taking more time than I'd like.Ancient Galaxy has a system to...
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Stately Progress
I'm happy to report that the re-factoring of the AI code is complete, and was a success!Not only did I fix the main issues that I wanted to address,...
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State Lines
Over the last few days I have been re-factoring the AI code in Ancient Galaxy. It was written by another programmer, and was pretty good for the...
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Pulsing
This morning I made some fixes to the 'Slow Crystal', formerly known as the Pulse Crystal. This is an orange power up that lets you slow down the...
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Return to The Ship!
In Ancient Galaxy, you have a spaceship that is used as a home base - a place to store, manufacture & analyze weapons & crystals, as well as a place...
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Cameras & Boxes
Ok, managed to get the camera paths improved. I was using a simple method of interpolating the camera keyframes, but it failed when I made too few...
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Camera Shots
Based on comments to this blog, and from one of our testers, I added some camera paths to the 1st level of the game.Camera paths are one of the...
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Noisy
After diving into the camera code to fix the fps-independence issue, I remembered something I heard from a director on a popular animated CG movie....
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Camera Smoothness & AABB Culling
After checking out a preliminary promotional video, I noticed that the camera looked very stiff and unnatural, although I have camera smoothing code...
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Wrapping it up
Over the past few months I have been making small fixes to the game, but also doing a lot of release-related work. What is that, you ask? Well for...
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Ancient Galaxy Released!
I'm proud to announce that Ancient Galaxy has been released. You can download a 3 level version here :...
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Thievery
The other night as I was making fixes and running through one of the levels, I had trouble finding a certain key needed to enable the teleporter...
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This just in...
Ancient Galaxy is fun. After spending so long fixing & tweaking, it's easy to lose sight of the fun factor after a while, but I just played through...
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Up and running again
Ok, we are both up & running again with our pcs. I ended up getting my old pc back up without one of the two striped harddrives.All I ended up losing...
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Interesting Times....
Within the same 12 hour period, both my partner and I, in separate time zones, had our main hard drives die. What are the chances?Needless to say, we...
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Fragmented
OK, we figured out a good way to improve the usefulness of crystals in the game. To explain why we needed to change it, I should give some background...
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