Tile-Based Discrete Wavefront Propagation
Originally posted on my blog. It involves math and code, so a lot of formatting has been lost on the bastardized 64digits version.
…I'm currently building a very simplistic first-person shooter in WebGL. An example of this algorithm, with the debug code left in, is available here. …Solar Noise - EP
My Solar Noise EP is now available for $3.99 on bandcamp, itunes, Google Play, Amazon MP3, and a bunch of other online stores I've never even heard of! It has 5 tracks - Solar Noise, Tidal Forces, and 3 alternate mixes, including a remix by my …
What Is A Right Answer?
I find that modern culture is often obsessed with a concept of wrongness. It is a tendency to paint things in a black and white fashion, as if there are simply wrong answers and right answers and nothing in-between. While I have seen this in every single imaginable discipline …
An Artist Trapped Inside A Software Engineer
Originally posted on my blog.
…Almost a decade ago, I thought I wanted to make games. I began building a graphics engine for that purpose, since back then, there were almost no open-source 2D graphics engines using 3D acceleration. It wasn't until later that I discovered I liked …What Do You Hate About Game Design?
More specifically, what is the most infuriating or otherwise painful part of game development? Listing multiple things is encouraged, with the most annoying listed first.
Answers To All The Questions I Asked As A Kid
Originally posted on my blog.
…When I was growing up and trying to figure out what was going on in this crazy planet I was born on, there were several important questions I asked that took many, many years to find answers to. What was frustrating is that …Properly Dreaming About Success
Originally posted on my blog
…Multithreading Problems in Game Design
Originally posted on my blog
…A couple years ago, when I first started designing a game engine to unify Box2D and my graphics engine, I thought this was a superb opportunity to join all the cool kids and multithread it. I mean all the other game developers were talking …Why Windows 8 Does The Right Thing The Wrong Way
Originally posted on my blog
…Yesterday, I saw a superb presentation called "When The Consoles Die, What Comes Next?" by Ben Cousins. It demonstrates that mobile gaming is behaving as a disruptive technology, and is causing the same market decline in consoles that consoles themselves did to …Success Is Not What You Think It Is
Originally post on my blog
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