[dteviot] Posted March 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Good News.NKF has generously loaned me a copy of Silent Storm.This means I'm probably not going to be writing much code for a couple of weeks while I do a zombie impersonation and STUDY how silent storm works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted April 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Had a very humbling experience today.Was proudly showing off the latest Xenocide build to a couple of the developers at work. Expected to get congratulations.Instead, they just laughed at it.Then they were kind enough to point me at some youtube clips of the sorts of things they're doing.http://youtube.com/watch?v=PDYrcl_i3AA I feel like a 5 year old who takes his finger painting masterpiece home to show the parents, and then have Dad shows him the Sistine chapel , and says "I painted that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkhomb Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 That is two different things, he is doing physics only. He isn't making a game. It is very good. But you cannot really compare the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafros Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 (edited) Then we can show him a beautiful particle system video or even an effective raycasting-raytracing rendering demo on youtube. Even the XNA racing game will do You are making a very nice game. He (whoever he is) is making an interesting physics application. You both can't make an fast and feature-rich particle system (). You are working on something beautiful on your SPARE TIME, as a HOBBY, and you are good at it. If you were paid full time to develop a game, you would do far better and he would probably stare in awe. To make matters worse, you could both have a look at this video: And a last one, let's see him code a ragdoll simulation in ASSEMBLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vQ0yRN64v0...feature=related Don't feel bad by comparing your work to others', you'll always feel you should have done a lot more. That's what I've been feeling for the last 1.5 years at University. Now I know it doesn't really matter, just be happy about what you've managed edit:A last link that's very beautiful: Box physics demo with the Crytek2 engine Or 5000 explosive barrels in realtime, THAT's some nice rendering ^^ edit2:Plus what Mad said right below. I totally agree :O Edited April 24, 2008 by kafros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mad] Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 That is two different things, he is doing physics only. He isn't making a game. It is very good. But you cannot really compare the two.Absolutely. Try "playing" that physics demo... It is impressive, true, but if you would've focused on one single aspect of Xenocide, let's say the AI ( to have something that can be as complicated to develop as physics) you could've done awesome stuff as well. It's the broad variety of problems that need solving in Xenocide what makes it so difficult. And thus IMHO no less impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted May 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Cool stuff.Jetpack:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...n-video-ap.html US Army Powered Exoskeleton prototype:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7351399.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Mad Ps.: Hope you have not completely stopped working on Xenocide, but are taking a creative break?As regards my lack of Xenocide output.Yes, I haven't done much lately. Truth is, my evil plan is to spend some time on another project (http://icc.starflight3.org/index.php) which has a couple of professional game programmers working on it. I figure if I contribute some useful work there, they may be willing to give me some advise, or at least put me in touch with some domain experts, for how to handle some of the stuff in Xenocide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafros Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 (edited) http://starflight3.org/Screenshots.aspx Retro-Space theme, seems nice I hope you enjoy your time there Edited May 28, 2008 by kafros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Azrael Strife Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 Mad Ps.: Hope you have not completely stopped working on Xenocide, but are taking a creative break?As regards my lack of Xenocide output.Yes, I haven't done much lately. Truth is, my evil plan is to spend some time on another project (http://icc.starflight3.org/index.php) which has a couple of professional game programmers working on it. I figure if I contribute some useful work there, they may be willing to give me some advise, or at least put me in touch with some domain experts, for how to handle some of the stuff in Xenocide.The game premise sounds sweet a lot like StarControl! Have fun! Looks like they are also using XNA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted July 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 Some interesting comments from a full time game developer about getting games to run on all sorts of rubbish PCs.http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/sh...ead.php?t=42663 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafros Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 I have to comment that it looks more like a ranting thread on piracy. There are a lot of different views exchanged, and someone can easily see that the truth is in-between Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted August 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 Dated, but interesting. http://www.byte.com/abrash/http://www.ddj.com/architect/184410430 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted September 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 You just know it's going to be a bad weekend when your employer wakes you at home at 2.30 am on a Saturday to deal with a customer's problem. So sorry, I didn't get anything done. However, I did come across this. Must get a copy.http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Planeta...IN%3D1581124473 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 Wow, looks interesting! Thanks for the heads up, dteviot. I'll see if I can get a cheaper copy somewhere. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted September 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2008 TVTropesCurrently my favorite web site.How can you not love articles like Sorting Algorithm Of Deadness and Neglectful Precursors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted October 4, 2008 Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 Oh no, not you too! Now nothing will get done for decades to come! TVTropes is a very very addictive (and awesome) site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dteviot] Posted October 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 OK, who's responsible for this news announcement? Xenocode Releases Tools for Packing Apps as Self-contained Executables? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mad] Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 Who the f*** is Xenocode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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