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Game Engine Update – 2013-09-06 – Continued Work

Over the past few weeks, I have done a ton of work on the engine. Unfortunately, most of the things I have been working on don’t have a visual component, so there is no video this time around. However, I would still like to give an update on the stuff that I have been workingContinue reading “Game Engine Update – 2013-09-06 – Continued Work”

Game Engine Update – 2013-08-16 – Get Animated!

Here is the current engine (See video comments for more details):

Game Engine Update – 2013-07-28 – Previous Work + Physics!

Here was what my engine looked like at the end of last week – 7-21-13 (See video comments for more details): This week, I cleaned up some code, worked on creating a vector library, and used the library to program some 2D physics, namely circle/circle, circle/rectangle, and rectangle/rectangle collision. Here is the physics engine inContinue reading “Game Engine Update – 2013-07-28 – Previous Work + Physics!”

New Game Engine

After taking a good amount of time to think about where I am in terms of my career, I have decided to quit my job as a QA tester and use the 40 hours a week that I would have been at work to program in an attempt to better my programming skills and landContinue reading “New Game Engine”

Wreck it Ralph

I’m just going to leave this here:

What WoW Looks Like When Your Video Card Is Dying…

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Portal 2

Game Name: Portal 2Developer: Valve CorporationPlatform: PC via Steam For my review of Portal 2, I’m actually just going to present a link to the Zero Punctuation review. I agree with Yahtzee’s review of Portal 2 100%, and couldn’t say it better myself, so here you go: Zero Punctuation – Portal 2 One extra thingContinue reading “Portal 2”

Terraria

Game Name: TerrariaDeveloper: Re-LogicPlatform: PC via Steam downloadCost: $10 If you thought Minecraft was good, you’ll never stop playing Terraria. Seriously, this game is amazing! I have been playing it with two of my friends for the past three days pretty much nonstop. The game trailer does a really good job of showing all theContinue reading “Terraria”

Magicka

Game Name: MagickaPublisher: Paradox InteractiveDeveloper: Arrowhead Game StudiosPlatform: PC via Steam download The Good This game is full of comedic references to other classic games. It had me laughing like crazy on the first cut scene, and it only got better from there. In Magicka, you cast spells by combining different elements to defeat onslaughts ofContinue reading “Magicka”

World of Warcraft

Lately I have been playing a lot of WoW. If you haven’t played it since Cataclysm has hit, I strongly suggest getting back into it. Essentially every zone in Azeroth (Excluding Northrend) had something change in it (Though admittedly, I expected that they were going to change a lot more than they did). At anyContinue reading “World of Warcraft”