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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, December 24, 2007 5:34 PM

Reading pending RSS feeds... Game development related

Today I'm finishing reading the latest pending RSS feeds, and found some interesting game development related posts/articles. Here they are just in case you wanna read something about game dev today: Raph Koster's "do levels suck?" ...
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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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Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:02 AM

Designing a game: My first steps

Among other 20.000 things, I'm creating a game design document for an online videogame (that's why I posted about adapting boardgames earlier this month). Not having done others before, I'm learning a lot of things. First one is that you may...
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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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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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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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Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:50 AM

Game Developer Magazine january 2007 issue

For anyone interested in game development, Game Developer Magazine is maybe the best printed (and digital) publication avaliable. I would subscribe myself to it if I had enough time for game development, but not having it, I have to think about it. Anyway...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:32 AM

Commercial game engines

Last Friday I was talking with some friends about gaming while having some beers (computers aren't a usual chatting subject, but sometimes we "get geek"), and we ended talking a bit about how complex a videogame engine is right now (by thinking about...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:55 PM

Gaming development related news

Wow, seems the gaming dev. community is quite active. There's lots of interesting things: A german group is making an XNA port of ScummVM! This means that if they succeed all Creator's Club subscribers could play their LucasArts marvelous graphic...
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