Category Archives: Game Development

I figured out the rivers.   Realistic rivers are VERY CPU heavy.  I think I spent 16 hours trying to tweak it.  Until some genius with a lot of time on her/his/its hands figures something better out, I’m dropping reflections out. … Continue reading →

After an honest week of focusing on my day job, I was ready to get back to work on my project. I wish I could have worked on this during the week, but I did get the chance to think … Continue reading →

I zipped up all of my code, archived it, and created a new Sunburn Professional project. I decided to purchase Sunburn Professional because of the great world editor and the complete programmatic control over everything in that world editor. I … Continue reading →

I spent a while figuring out how to plug the Sunburn Framework into my game state management system. Then I tried plugging my camera movement and input classes into Sunburn. Didn’t work so well for the player, but it was … Continue reading →

So Guild Wars 2 game out at the end of August. Did I mention I was a gamer? Yeah so I had to check this out. I also ran into a slew of house projects that my girlfriend was sick … Continue reading →

I started researching terrain collision detection.  It turns out this is not easy.  I created a class that took the mesh data of models passed through and checked to see if they collided with my player object.  My end result … Continue reading →

I needed to decide on a language.  My initial search on where I should start with that turned up hundreds of other people asking the same question, and almost always getting the same answer.  I will paraphrase a few common … Continue reading →

Hi there! I thought I’d post my experience in creating a video game while I do it.  Everything until the last post has been post-dated back to the time it was done, and I’ll be keeping this updated from now … Continue reading →