Gebba's Den

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Time sure flies doesn't it?

Another rant about how bad my blogging frequency is, no maybe not. Since the last time I write anything I've managed to get a new job, since the last company I worked in actually went bankrupt. The last two months have been quite frantic trying to learn the ropes of the new job, I'm now working in a new backend system in python which is a lot of fun. Other than that I've started once again looking at Unity 3D seeing as I tend to spend more time writing boiler plate code than actually making games, I thought it was worth pursuing. In the asset store there I found this amazing plugin called RagePixel, which incorporates the entire asset production in the Unity editor. It's bloody amazing to work with so far, and I've felt way more productive than ever. Currently working in a small game as a personal proof if concept, like "Hey, I can actually finish a game!" Hopefully... This time I can make something happen.

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I love parenthesis <3

I think I really do, they fit in everywhere (like here!). They are never really out of place (perhaps here? (or are they?)). Mmmm parenthesis... (yeah, I really like them)

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Slow progress, and new computer!

So lately the work on the current project has been quite slow (read: completely stalled, really). But do intend to continue as soon as possible! It kind of slowed down a lot when my mate I was working together with was unable to work for a while due to a surgery, but he's now back fully functioning! Yay!

One of the things I was planning on doing was move Project Beard to OpenGL 3 but have since realized how retarded that would be. It's not gonna give us anything we really need, and it will just limit the amount of GPU's the game will be able to run on. (most likely I was just looking for an excuse to make use of the OpenGL Super Bible I bought) For now, we will stick with OpenGL 1.1 which works perfectly fine for our purposes.

Also, yesterday I received my new computer! (Finally! Been planning on buying a new one for a year!)

Hoping to get re-started this weekend, perhaps tuning the collision detection somewhat, as it's a bit wonky at the moment.

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Progress! (Yeah, actual progress! (I'm serious (Paranthesis ftw)))

Since my last post there's actually be quite some progress on the current project, which is currently just called... "Beardman". Innovative. Right?

And I've had the some help by an undisclosed person of indeterminate value, who made most of the fancy art. (Except the actual "Beardman" he's mine!)

There's a screenshot in the previous post...

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Meet Beardman! (insert fancily epic music here)

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Wow...

Okay, seriously, this blogging thing didn't seem to work out... but hey I'm back.

Since last time I wrote I've seriously not gotten a lot of game coding done, and actually recently started another project. This time I'm attempting to learn OpenGL and I'm doing all the boiler plate code myself. So far this has been a lot of fun, and I've gotten some basic platforming mechanics up and running.

Hopefully there will not be such slow progress this time...

PS. Also you might have noticed the name change, having somewhat of an online identity crisis.

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An update...

Well… as I suspected my blogging frequency has been low lately. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the game plans have gone down the drain.

On the contrary quite a lot has happened there. I’ve written two different map generators: one that generates random labyrinths, and another that reads the pixel colors of an image, and each pixel then represents a certain tile type.

Also some of the “story” behind the game world has been written down. This doesn’t mean that the game is going to an epic story of love, betrayal and war, but some kind of back story sets the mood.

My co-worker Paul had also been plenty busy, drawing a lot of different tile graphics; walls, grass, dirt and so on. He’s also started working on music for the game, and the bits and pieces I’ve heard so far sounds really good. Then again, he has been working with music for most parts of his life :)

I’m currently riding the subway to another co-worker, Kristoffer, to do some hacking with him, also related to the game.

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Brilliant video! I need to get myself a dog...

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The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be.

Unknown

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My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

Unknown

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I casually navigated to google.com this morning, and what do I see? The most horrible logo to ever set it's foot on the face of this planet. I mean... wow... they really know how to kill the valentines spirit. They killed it dead.

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I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.

Wash, Firefly

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Late night at work (again!) Just me and me.

There's nothing like you and I.

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Coding styles are like assholes, everyone has one and no one likes anyone elses.

Eric Warmenhoven

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Even more!?

As if having a nerdgasm over Xcode 4 GM seed wasn't enough, I discovered another announcement.

There's an extension to Cocos2d released, called.... *drumroll* Cocos3d! Holy shit! This is going to be way awesome, or so I choose to believe. I imagine making the game a 2.5d platformer instead. So many possibilities!

http://brenwill.com/cocos3d/

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It's finally here!

Was just casually visiting developer.apple.com and suddenly Xcode 4 GM seed appears in front of my eyes! How did that happen!? Why wasn't I notified!? Argghhhgghhg! *nerdrage*

Anyhow, this is great news! Now Xcode actually might just count as a real IDE rather than a text editor on steroids. After working with Eclipse and Java for some time I've gotten rather lazy, and prefer to be served all the code automagically. I mean, who wants to write their own code anyway, that's for people with actual ambitions. Fuck that!