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New Level Editor.

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:20:43 +0000

I’ve been pretty quiet lately, and well, that because I’ve been super busy! No, not really, just been working on the studios new level editor and game engine, which we’ll hopefully release sometime in the future too, after we make a few games . Its look really nice, and its a lot more professional (both visually and functionally) that the previous one. Anyway, more news soon!

Now this is a funny ad :P

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:47:55 +0000

Just thought I’d share this awesome Old Spice ad with you!

Check it out, its pretty good for a single shot! Their channel has some other very good ad’s too.

As for the programming sides of things, well, slowly getting there! I might post a few screenshots soon!.
-eXsolv3d.

Parallax Magic

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:59:44 +0000

Was playing around yesterday with the engine, and got parallax scrolling to work. With enough layers this effect looks pretty awesome if I say so myself. I’ve only used 2 layers of clouds, but that was just for testing purposes

Watch parallax-scrolling in action! (Basic Engine Test)

“Parallax scrolling is a special scrolling technique in computer graphics, seen first in the 1982 arcade game Moon Patrol. In this pseudo-3D technique, background images move by the “camera” slower than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D video game and adding to the immersion. The technique grew out of the multiplane camera technique used in traditional animation since the 1940s.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling (If you’re interested in reading more)

Heya, just a few updates

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:14:14 +0000

I haven’t posted any updates in a while… and it’s because I’ve been a bit distracted & busy . Anyway, I thought I will let you all know that we’re currently underway on our first 2D platformer game (unnamed at this time of writing). I’m currently writing the engine & editor for it, and soon we’ll get started on creating the levels and all the fun stuff. Stay posted, more updates soon!

DuneStorm™… More updates!

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:22:59 +0000

More updates on the DLSE (DuneStorm™ Level Editor). Has a working grid system now, snapping, better selection, a number of shortcut keys, better looking menu, some back-end code optimizations and a few other smallish things.

DuneStorm™ Small Updates

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:25:00 +0000

Just some quick updates on DuneStorm™. Made the UI (entity’s), joints and springs look a lot nicer, there’s now anti aliasing on the circle shapes, the maps can now be saved to the .dust format as well.

DuneStorm™ Level Editor NEW!

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:12:10 +0000

Updates on the DSLE. More updates coming soon.

Features Include
Primitive Shape Placement
Property Editing (size, position etc)
Physics Integration (Joints, Springs, Static’s etc)
Dragging/Scrolling
Level Config Editor
And many… many more! (and a lot more to come) … there’s actually so many I can’t even think of them!

DuneStorm™ Level Editor

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:22:53 +0000

A small level editor I am working on for my 2D/XNA based Game Engine!. It still needs a lot more work but the majority of the interface and a good amount of the back-end code is completed. I’m hoping to possibly finish it off this week or next week at the latest so I can continue working on the game engine. More updates soon!

C# Nullabalicious!

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:05:54 +0000

Something I’ve started using lately, and quite like… is C#’s ‘?’ property. This allows you to flag a parameter in a method’s constructor as ‘nullable’. In other words, when someone interfaces with your method, certain arguments can be left blank or set to null. This save’s creating overloaded methods. An example of such a method looks like:

public void PrintString(String text, int? numberOfTimes)
{
     int number = 1;
     if(numberOfTimes.HasValue)
          number = numberOfTimes.value;

     for(int i = 0; i < number + 1; i++)
     {
          DisplayString(text);
     }
}

Hope this helps or makes things easier in some cases .

Google Chrome Speed Tests!

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:12:36 +0000

An awesome video from the people at google, demostrating the speed of their browser, ‘Google Chrome’. I personally use it, and like it alot! Check it out:

And here’s the making-of: