Progress With NeuroSky So if you are to venture in the world of NeuroSky's products, be sure to have your bluetooth dongle as exposed to the world as possible. Having mine directly in my computer under my desk has caused a number of very annoying connection issues, heh.
NeuroSky MindSet Got a NeuroSky Mindset today... so far a little underwhelmed... lets hope it gets better.
Got Some Funky Bink Background Going On During some work on my UI shenanigans, I got some stuff working like the separation of a components library from the main .swf and some other memory optimized things. Everything was looking a bit bland though and I wanted a menu background that would look alright and be generic across
Trying Out Some Scaleform Stuff Messing around with the powers of run-time resource sharing between Flash/Scaleform documents with UDK. Liking the results so far. Hoping to create a themeable UI framework.
Cooking, Documentation, and WordPress Themes Early this morning I had to cook and upload a build of a project for work which hogged a few hours of potential sleep time this morning, so I decided to work today from home. For those who don't know, "cooking" refers to a process of
AllarEngine + DX11 + HTML5? So in the process of researching ways to integrate web-based services into UE3 during my work on Rekoil [http://www.rekoil.com], I came across the library Awesomium [http://www.awesomium.com]thanks to James Tan and thought it was cool enough to add into my personal project / hobby engine
Friend Jessica Schultz Finished Her DnD Halfling Cosplay Outfit [http://frekki.wordpress.com] Good friend of mine, Jessica Schultz, dabbles in 3D modeling and various craft works such as making cosplay outfits! She recently started a blog which I hope you guys will subscribe to over at http://frekki.wordpress.com, where you can see her past works, encourage
Diablo 3 Launch! Been waiting forever for Diablo 3 as with everyone else; have a few friends who worked on the title tease endlessly about it... but now its finally going live. My battletag is Allar#1160, lets kill some evil!
Going to GDC 2012 I'm on my way over to the Game Development Conference in San Francisco, if you're going to be there be sure to find me at the Plastic Piranha booth!
IDE Feature Set I'm currently traveling down the road others have gone and trying to create an UnrealScript IDE myself as well. nFringe and WOTgreal and some of the newer attempts are all usable and nice, but none of them are as lightweight as I want and are either missing key
Frustration: ScaleForm GFxMoviePlayer Not Calling Init If your GFxMoviePlayer isn't calling your Init function, I bet you are loading your custom GFxMoviePlayer class through Kismet. Apparently Kismet fires Start but not Init, at least that is the conclusion I just came to. I didn't find any documentation on this so I'
Beginning Your UDK Game: Tools Setup Hello reader! Whether or not you are brand new to programming in general, programming with UDK, this will set you up with the tools you need to have to make awesome! At the end of this tutorial, you will have: 1. A copy of the Unreal Development Kit installed (at
Design3’s Game Development In One Word Ben Mears [https://twitter.com/#!/The_BenMears] over at Design3 [http://www.design3.com/] has been recently blowing up Twitter [https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelAllar]#gamedevinoneword [https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23gamedevinoneword] about how game developers describe game development in one word and created a montage of their responses from interviews
Free Indie Games So there has been a few good Humble Indie Bundle packages that let you pay what you want to pay for a set of indie games... Here is a pack of free indie games! Just thought you guys would like to know about it if you don't already.
Looking For Authors And People Who Like Writing Stuff About Things They Know To make sure that my site has a steady stream of content to occupy your time between my tutorial postings, I am looking for asset creators and authors who want to share their tutorials or write articles based on things they have done... basically to blog about their stuff on
New Site Features Implemented So I was able to get some forums and a fancy new feature suggestion box thing that I've wanted to add for a while now, fix some formatting issues on some pages, and hacked a bunch of PHP to get WordPress plugins talking to each other so you
How I'm Starting The New Year Right now I'm digging through some word press themes trying to find one that looks nice for reading code upon and that will support some new features I'm trying to implement. If you have any suggestions, whether good or bad, or links to word press themes
Moving Servers Some of the things I am developing along with this site itself are demanding more performance that my current hosting provider can not offer. Over the next few days I will be moving stuff to a new server to prepare for some new content and projects, as well as cleaning
Lack of Updates And Stuff Yes, I'm aware I still haven't posted new content in awhile, and for this I'm sorry. I'm working on something big that hopefully I can share with the rest of you in the future. Also, it appears that my site is some
Jump or Die Released! iTunes Link [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jump-or-die/id449394637?ls=1&mt=8] In my final quarter at my college, I need to have three completed games in my portfolio to graduate. While I am working on a rather large project that takes up most of my time,
Global Game Jam 2011 Design and build a game in 48 hours. I was there last year, I was there this year along side An-Tim Nguyen, Cordell Felix, Michael Sanchez, Samuel Gonzalez, Evan Hill. iPod + iPad + Kinect game with UDK
Kinect Controller I bought a Kinect controller. It ships soon. I don't own an Xbox 360. This should be fun.
VOTE FOR WARM GUN NOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW So for the past 3-4 months I've been working as Lead Programmer for Emotional Robots, Inc on UDK-based game Warm Gun. Its a post apocalyptic post World War 3 Old Wild West + a bit of steam punk multi-player shooter. We need you to vote for us for the