Sharing Saturday #177
Some good progress was made this week: The AI Mining system is ported, so settlers know how to collect picks and travel to mining destinations. The AI Guarding system is ported, letting settlers guard important...
Sharing Saturday #176
I missed last week’s Sharing Saturday post due to the most bizarre event. I had to pop into work, and as I was unlocking the door a mostly-naked girl ran up asking for help. I...
Sharing Saturday #174
I think this is the second time I’ve given a literal update from the trenches; we’re at the Roots’n’Blues festival, providing wi-fi to a big, dusty field (it’s usually muddy, but no rain this year!)....
Sharing Saturday #173
This week, I turned 42 – and celebrated Life, the Universe and Everything. My lovely wife bought me a copy of Procedural Generation in Game Design (edited by Tanya X. Short and Tarn Adams). I...
Sharing Saturday #172
Other than a brief fight with the flu, progress continues pretty well. The lighting system works once more. It’s moderately clever, in that lighting information is rendered to a 3D texture (very fast) rather than...
Sharing Saturday #170
My wife and I took a vacation to the magnificent Rocky Mountains (which is why I didn’t update last week). This was extremely relaxing, and left me raring to code once more! Unfortunately, my trusty...
Sharing Saturday #168
This has been a productive week, and I’m now between 80 and 90 percent done with the render engine (by feature). I’m looking forward to having it off my plate, and getting back to gameplay!...
Sharing Saturday #167
The focus of the week has been getting the low-level stuff in order. So there’s a lot of small changes/rearranging on the core level: The thread pool determines it’s size based on the number of...