64Dare Contest FINISHED

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 16, 2011, 6 p.m.

64Dare Theme: Alternate Reality

Contest Information

The contest has started! The contest will end at 9 AM PST on Monday, September 19th. You must send me a PM with the title "64Dare Contest Entry" that has a download link for your game by exactly 9 AM, with …

64Dare Theme

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 12, 2011, 2:33 a.m.

Themes

- Exponential growth

- Vibrations

- Plants

- One button

- Obscure Mythology

- bunnies

- Cheese

- Alternate Reality

- Potato

- Fucked up/Distorted "remakes"/Creepy

- Catastrophe of Biblical Proportions

- Reflection

- Crafting

- Corruption

Vote for your top 3 favorite themes. To vote, send me a …

C# to C++ Tutorial - Part 3

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 9, 2011, 8:13 p.m.

C# to C++ Tutorial - Part 3: Classes and Structs and Inheritance (OH MY!)

In this part of the tutorial, I map all C# object-oriented concepts to C++ equivalents. With unicorns.

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64Dare Schedule

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 6, 2011, 4:54 p.m.

A couple people said they wouldn't be able to participate in 64Dare if it was done this weekend. As a result I'd like to ask when the majority would like the competition to start - the 9th or the 16th?

EDIT: 16th it is.

The Problem of Vsync

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 5, 2011, 7:50 p.m.

Originally posted on my blog.

If you were to write directly to the screen when drawing a bouncing circle, you would run into some problems. Because you don't do any buffering, your user might end up with a quarter circle drawn for a frame. This can be solved …

64Dare Theme Nomination

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 3, 2011, 9:40 p.m.

Based on the results of the name poll, the contest is now named "64Dare" by a landslide vote. We have a bunch of themes now, way too many to vote on, so now I'd like for anyone interested in the contest to nominate a single theme that they like out …

MiniLD Sept.17

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 1, 2011, 8:04 p.m.

I have just found out that there is a Mini-LudumDare contest scheduled for Sept.17-18, in addition to a whole truckload of other competitions happening this month.

Musical Genres

Posted by blackhole on Sept. 1, 2011, 6:47 p.m.

Reposted from my blog.

As a composer, I have been on the receiving end of a lot of musical criticism - some useful, most ridiculous. I have given out quite a bit of criticism myself, but after discovering that most people aren't interested in brutally honest opinions, I …

64 Hour Compo Themes

Posted by blackhole on Aug. 30, 2011, 5:26 p.m.

So now that Action 64 is about done, I'd like to take suggestions for themes. Themes can be anything, and I have seeded the list with some random ideas. Remember that we aren't voting on themes yet, we're just suggesting them.

Themes

- Gravity

- Very big vs Very …

Contest: 64Dare

Posted by blackhole on Aug. 22, 2011, 5:35 a.m.

Despite failing miserably, I thought the Ludumdare contest was fun and resulted in me finding a lot of bugs and learning a lot of things. For those of you who don't know, the Ludumdare contest is a competition held every 4 months were you must make a game, from scratch, …