I don't know what it is, but for some time I've complained that music today sucks. I guess it is because I'm old but I look back on the music we've written during the age of rock and think that song ment something, but when you think about it thats almost 30, 40 years of music and pretty much the only ones you hear are the timeless ones. But ( Read more... )

For 6 years I have grown as a programmer, I never forsook the tallants that lead to to the decision to be come a game designer and as I move forward programming bigger, better devices and drawing ever closer to that ultimate goal of having that first game to show off my skills as a story writer, and artist grow as well. There are times when I sit ( Read more... )

With the shell completed I work to insure all the componants work corrently. I've already had to make some adjustments, just minor, but major issues that would have come up had they not been done. Most of the work corrisponds to the basic building blocks of the engine, the vectors, planes and matrices. But Today marked the first Preengine ( Read more... )

Ugh one thing I hate in the world is when I am so close to achiveing something yet one tiny little problem keeps me from finishing it. So Dispair and frustration eclipses my current mood as I attempt to devise and think of a way to get bone animation from 3ds max with out knowing the freaken .max file format. I've made a script in 3ds max that ( Read more... )

I know I have been ranting and raving about how my engine is complete and I'm sure your probably wondering, "All it does is move around and display a cube, whats the big deal" Well your right. You see all this effort, time and enthusiasm has been spent creating what I call a shell.

( Why the Shell is an excelent step )

Okay so I have a IE statistics test tomorrow I've been studying for. Truly it seems my best ideas come when I am under a considerable amount of "stress". Since the last sesson of studying I've had something brewing in my mind. Finally it was unlocked with the combonational help of Queens "Princes of the Universe" and "The Prophets song", mostly ( Read more... )

The final coding is done, the basis of my game engine is complete! All steps after this are considered game design dictation, what kind of models to use, what kind of scene management to use, to have net code and all that. Now to move on to the Game!

( Engine complete )

two days ago, Tuesday Feb 6, I finally beat Okami. I clocked 61 hours of solid game play, with minium deviation from the actual main plot. I spent some time doing a few side quest such as getting most of the upgraded brush stroke powers, and all but one of the martial art techniques, but there where many many other things I could have spent time ( Read more... )

Well I finally did something about an issue thats been bothering me for two years now. I had lent my lap top to a friend,MB, but during the time I had done so she droped it and busted the side of the screen. At the time I did not see any problem until later when I discovered the CD drive no longer worked. We had gotten a warrenty from comp USA ( Read more... )

Okay Mac commericals in general have pissed me off but never before like the one I saw the other day. You Macies will know it on your precious little Mac website as "surgery", to those of us who don't need a constant ego boost every day, you've probably seen it on television where the "PC" is waiting to be operated on and the mac asks "Isn't ( Read more... )