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Monday, April 21, 2008 8:04 PM

Amazing (and weird) game engines plus POVRay

Looks like people is going mad lately, and if you don't think so, check this three examples and think again ;) Voxelstein 3D Our all-time classic FPS, having lots of excellent engine remakes , gets an interesting twist with voxel technology. Although...
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Monday, January 07, 2008 2:22 PM

Text Mode Demos: Amazing!

Some fo you may know what the demoscene is (if not, learn about it ;) If you do, you've probably seen lots of amazing demos and cool 3D stuff (maybe even you've seen .kkrieger , a 96KB shoter with Doom 3-like quality ;) But one thing I had read...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:52 PM

Gamefest 2007 presentations fully available

After some delays we finally can download the full archive of presentations from the XNA Gamefest 2007 Microsoft event. There are a lot of them, covering all aspects of XBox 360, Windows and XNA development, so you should start downloading them right...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:28 PM

Metroid remake with voxel technology

While reading a Gamasutra article about open world games , I've found something fantastic: A Metroid remake done with voxel technology . Voxel (from volumetric pixel ) is about representing a 2D grid in 3D, by elevating each element of the grid (each...
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Friday, August 31, 2007 8:55 PM

Blog Day 2007

I almost forgot that today is the 3rd Blog Day ! Here are 5 blogs (well, two of them are more than just a blog) that I read about game development: - CodePixel : In spanish. Fantastic source for 3D and game development resources. Lots of info and papers...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 12:51 AM

Modelling buildings with Google Sketchup

I've been playing with Sketchup since before Google buyed it, but I haven't done anything great. I want to make my future house floorplan in 3D, but as usual time is precious, so I'm always delaying it. Anyway, for those wanting to transform...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:33 PM

Double Dispatch in JADE 2.0

I've started looking in depth current JADE 2.0 code (it's being massively re-done from scratch, with even a custom .NET DirectX Wrapper), so I'm going to post more frecuently about it's development. I'm still learning how what's...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:43 PM

Upgrading my home machine network

It's time to spend some money and upgrade my home machines! As I love playing games and watching movies, I've bought a new gaming PC (a real monster). Also, I'm getting a new laptop for development (including JADE and XNA development ;) and...
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Friday, June 01, 2007 11:20 PM

XNA Particle System sources uploaded

Just a small post. Vicente and I have finished commenting the code of our small XNA Particle Engine we built for the UPSAM speech we gave about XNA and the content pipeline . The code is not "production quality" and some minor things should...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:56 AM

Developing an XNA Particle System [UPDATED]

Today my friend Vicente and I gave a small speech at the UPSAM about XNA . Precisely, we presented a small particle engine done into a GameComponent, to acomplish some goals: Showing how clean and easy is to use GameComponents (actually we use one Camera...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:39 PM

The Gameboy Power

Thought the GameBoy Color was not so much? What about this tech-demo of a Resident Evil conversion? Thought the GameBoy Advance was dead with Nintendo DS appearance? What would you say after watching this other tech-demo of Resident Evil 2 running under...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:33 PM

XNA & XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh

Yesterday I finally installed XNA Game Studio under Vista... and today comes the 1.0 Refresh. Someone did it on purpose :D Anyway, here it is (at last), Windows Vista fully supported, 3D Audio and sharing of binaries (currently just between developers...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:36 AM

Doing some PR about Jade

Yesterday I officially came back to Jad Engine as an active developer. Vicente and I had a meeting with the other developers and they discussed about what the future 1.2 release will have. Although it is early to talk about that, the 1.1 is actually in...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:34 AM

GDC2007: Fantastic XNA news!

Today's been the "XNA day" at the GDC 2007 , and as expected there are a lot of fantastic news: Next revision of XNA will feature things like Windows Vista Support (at last!), XACT 3D (3D audio!), bitmap fonts, volume textures, icons for the games and...
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Monday, February 26, 2007 7:50 AM

XNA: Skeletal Bone Animation & Skinning with Collada models article

Benjamin Nitschke has posted a fantastic XNA tutorial about skeletal bone animation and skinning using Collada models, which allow for complex animations exported as XML that DirectX .X files can't handle. As I haven't read all yet (it's quite large ...
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