Game Dev
The Illustrious Spinning Cube
By the end of my last post, I had a very boring hot-pink “StaticRectangle”. I gave my wife a demo who was as enthused about a hot-pink rectangle as you can imagine. I showed her all the code it took Read more…
Game Dev
StaticRectangle Lives
I spent some time messing around with WebGL trying to render some better looking 3d mazes, which I have no doubt you can do. There are plenty of examples of WebGL being used to make some captivating 3d content and Read more…
Mazes
It had to be done
Not a faithful recreation. I believe the Microsoft one was following the left-hand rule solver (and right when you flipped upside down), which means the mazes must have been ‘simply connected’ or ‘perfect mazes’. There isn’t the topsy-turvy geodesic shape, Read more…
Mazes
Mazes now in 3D!
Probably a surprise to no one, but while going through the maze generation exercise I thought it would be nice to display a maze in 3d. There is (though I haven’t gotten to it yet) an entire section of the Read more…
Mazes
It’s been a while…
Apparently my last devblog entry was just over 3 years ago today, and… well, a lot has happened in that time. Professionally, I moved from supporting and writing tools for animators in Maya, of which I had years of experience, Read more…
Game Dev
Logging and Events (and refactoring Input)
I took a break from the renderer as the next step involves getting render passes setup so I can render shadows and do fun stuff like post processing etc. This poses two problems for me.. Once I get started, I Read more…
Game Dev
Yo dawg, I heard you liked refactoring…
You know that thing you do when you’re learning something new, so you make every mistake under the sun and / or massively over complicate / engineer things? Yeah, I did that. As I mentioned in my last post, I Read more…
Game Dev
We’ve got textures, everybody!
Now we’re all caught up, I reached a bit of a milestone yesterday. I managed to get textures loading and I’m fairly happy with the solution for now. This one is a milestone for me because I really wasn’t sure Read more…
Game Dev
Static Rectangle, now with more progress!
The following is progress made over a few weeks, a few weeks ago. I was still wrapping my head around how Vulkan works, and really just trying to get stuff to work. It was one step forward, two steps back Read more…
Game Dev
Introducing Static Rectangle Engine
I started this project a few weeks ago, the goal? make my own game engine, why? purely educational reasons honestly. In my humble (and uneducated) opinion, there are a number of reasons someone may want to build their own game Read more…