Elysian Shadows

My favorite book recently is "Game coding complete, 3rd edition" with source code available to download. Really great book, it made me to rethink so many things and showed me how little I knew about game engine development before reading that book .

I am taking the structure of "Game coding complete 3rd edition" as a basis and then doing a bit (which will turn to some major work, I guess :mrgreen: ) of restructuring to implement the architecture described here: http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/03/entity-systems-are-the-future-of...

I personally have once had a major problem with fstream. As I live in a country where people use computers with russian and latvian languages, I had to support Unicode so users can load files with Unicode characters in file names. I started using Microsoft's wfstream which works with Unicode files. ...

And I too say $world = "this funny crazy world"; echo "Hello, $world!"; I am a software engineer from a small country called Latvia. I worked two years as a C# programmer and did some stuff on Microsoft Biztalk Server and SharePoint Server, also tried early buggy betas of Adobe A...

Hey, did it work?
In case if it blew up: can we see a nice youtube video with a blowing PS2?

Looks interesting, let's see, what it has inside...

BTW, the free Unreal Development Kit came earlier. I studied it a bit, Kismet is really powerful. But UDK free is preaty weak on networking part, so I chose not to use it because networking is important for may "expermiental sandbox".

This class would be better if you rename it, to say, something like InitShutdownManager. Then you could put more than just SDL init / shutdown in it. If one day you decide to throw away SDL and put something else in, you can just put into your class the new code for init / shutdown for DirectX, Open...

That's a good point, Ginto8 , I guess there is always a compromise: - more general purpose game engine is weaker in what it gives to the game logic but is less limited to some certain type of game (FPS, RPG ...); - more specific engine is stronger (and more efficient) and makes life easier for scrip...

We should feel sorry for those who started with Java / C# / PHP and do not know anything about C++. Some of those programmers have no idea what is a pointer and what is a memory leak, although they are using pointers and sometimes they create memory leaks, which are hidden somewhere deep in .NET / J...

As far as I know, Microsoft's DirectInput has support for almost any more or less standard input device, and I saw also force feedback in its API some years ago. Maybe DirectInput is an overkill for starters (as is most of DirectX with COM interfaces), but it is popular and I am sure, DirectInput ha...

My favorite is Brainfuck:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

If at the end of a tough working day someone says to me: "Oh, I feel like my brain is fucked up", I show this link and that person starts feeling much better - it is such a relief to use PHP/Javascirpt and not Brainfuck

I guess, for an average software engineer/programmer it is enough to know that there exists such an old thing called Assembly language and it can get close to the underlying hardware without any higher level overhead and thus it allows to optimize time-critical parts of your code. And that's it, I g...

:lol: good that it was entertaining at least. Actually it is a question, but the question comes at the very end (if you had a patience to read that far :mrgreen: ). I could put the question at the very beginning, but then you would have no idea what I am talking about when I say "Component base...

Hi all game devs! I am planning to dive into game deving and try some interesting approaches. I can afford experimenting because I do not plan to release a full-blown game anyway, I just want to keep my brain busy between some boring s&%t I program for living. So I found some interesting article...

I was born in Latvia in former USSR. The first time I saw a computer I was maybe 12 years old. The computer loaded programs from a usual cassette recorder, and it was funny to turn the volume up and listen to the digital noises while the program was being loaded. We had a class with a bunch of Elekt...