Awesomeness In a Box!

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David — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:00:08 +0000

New site design, new artwork in the gallery.

Waiting makes the updates more exciting when they finally come.

I MA3D A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT!!!

David — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:44:44 +0000

Over the past 3 1/2 or so weeks I’ve been working on an entry for Tigsource’s Action52 Remake Compo. It’s been a blast. I’ve got a lot more stuff in my engine now (like sound, lua scripting and proper text rendering), and after this I am NEVER going to touch the OpenGL fixed function pipeline ever again. YEAH.

For those who got here by means other than the Tigsource forums, a bunch of indie game developers are remaking all 52 games of the pretty horrid Action52 for the original NES, with the exception that we’re trying to make them fun and finished this time around. I redid Dedant, an arena shooter with ants and spiders and what I assume are rocks being thrown around. Yawn. Needs MOAR ZOMBIES. Oh, it’s got those now? Sweet.

Screenshots of the magic:

Download this bad boy -here-.

Badguys and Buttons

David — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:42:27 +0000

Put the monster model in with a simple button firing attack. He’s a possessed puppet so he fires death buttons at you. It makes sense to me anyway…

Also, I made quite a few optimizations to the rendering code that yielded some pretty good speedups.

Next up, giving the Muse a staff so she can fight back!

Progress report

David — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:41:47 +0000

Over the past few months I’ve gotten quite a bit done on my game. Since reworking the animation system, I’ve more or less completely rewritten the rendering backend. The old one worked okay, but I was starting to run into some real problems, not the least of which was the fact that the rendering commands weren’t really abstracted, and so there was no way for me to break away from my reliance on OpenGL. That’s all been fixed now, and the actual code for device access sits in a separate layer from the scene logic.

More art has been done as well. I’ve got textures in, final models for the protagonist, some attacks and the basic generic monster.

Cubic Interpolatin’

David — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:11:00 +0000

I finished converting my animation keyframe tweening over from cosine interpolation to cubic tonight. The cosine interpolation actually looked fairly decent for the simpler animations, but any keyframe that didn’t have the animation curve change direction would get weird hiccups in it. The cubic interpolation takes care of that, and I now get silky smooth transitions regardless of what the derivative of the animation curve is doing sign-wise.