I’ve got my Master’s diploma. I feel like nothing has changed, probably so it is.
We have a pretty unreal orchid in our house. I bought it 8 months ago, and it’s been blooming all the time. It’s even getting bigger and bigger!
God, no wonder games are so hard to make. The tools are such complete crap. Some day there’s going to be a tools revolution and one guy will be able to make the equivalent of today’s $10 million games. There’s no doubt in my mind.
A Pilgrimage 2004 talk by Tom Forsyth. Good points captured.
Another day I stumbled upon this: how to be creative. Overall it’s good; although a bit too long and most of the content is quite common-sense. A good read anyway.
That reminds me: the other day I was thinking about a strange feeling in the town where I live (Kaunas, Lithuania). Basically, whenever I see a group (three or more) of young guys (20-25), most of the time they seem to be aggressive and angry. I don’t get this feeling in the other towns/cities; I don’t really know what’s causing it. Maybe it’s several bad experiences I had. Some of my friends have this feeling also, so it can’t be just my problem.
I wonder why people are agressive at all. I mean, what’s the point in insulting/pushing/beating a random walker-by? Is that the only way they can express or “feel” themselves - through invoking fear or pain on the others? Maybe; another day I read Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Childhood of the Leader” (L’enfance d’un chef) and maybe that’s the case - when a person can’t find “himself” he starts doing weird things.
Still, why there seems to be so many of them?
Ok, I’ve released sourcecode for our demo engine/tools and the demo itself a while ago, now time to actually put up at least a minimal website, with some articles, download/build instructions and whatnot.
So, here it is: http://dingus.berlios.de (oh, and it has an rss feed of the recent changes, yay!).
Currently it’s half empty; I expect to write some more short articles soon. Maybe even put up some standalone tools… I know that the sourcecode is useless, but I thought “maybe the articles would be good”. Or maybe not, who knows.
On the other hand - maybe it’s the way to go. You’re designing the engine around some specific technologies and approaches, to be used in some 2-3 years.
That way, when fancy water reflections go out of fashion and are replaced by fancy waxed floor reflections, you’d throw everything out and restart from scratch. Predicting that this moment will occur only in the next console transition (hey, cur-gen can’t handle fancy waxed floors!).
Pretty reasonable I think, in 2-3 years it’s likely that the things will be changed in non-trivial way, so you’d need to rethink and possibly remake some parts of the technology anyway.