Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
One of our interns, zacropetricopus, has been hacking the ROBLOX graphics pipeline apart for the past month to add ambient shadows. Today, we’ve got some super-early screenshots!
Breakfast of Champions
Coffee, coffee cake, half a snickerdoodle, chocolate pudding from Tartine, shot of red pepper flakes, spoon. My mom’s not here to stop me.
Small World
I gave my sister a copy of Small World for Christmas. For those who are not aware, I am pretty serious about my board games. If you are interested in game design, as I am, there’s often a lot more meat in a board game than in a computer game. So yeah. I guess you [...]
Choose Your Own Adventure: Greatest Achievement in the Genre
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike…
Remember these? Recently they have been reprinted. I saw a bunch in a bookstore two months ago.
I wrote this year’s annual Christmas letter in the format of a CYOA book (actually more like a printed copy of Colossal Cave). After reading it, my friend [...]
Customer Service
Customer Service departments everywhere, I am your nemesis.
Galatea 2.2
“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more – the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.”
It’s not as brilliant as Godel, Escher, Bach. But Richard Powers does have his moments.
Demons Begone!
Just won a 16 player online mafia game as the Demon, proving that when it comes to lies, deceit, and treachery, I’m your man!
Mafia is an interesting game because it is all about tricking likely facts from a chaotic morass of information. Maybe it’s possible to play purely by “reading” people’s speech and mannerisms. However, [...]
ROBLOX? More like LOLBLOX!
"God darn it, I didn’t enter. DARN! I would use profanity but this is Roblox. Not Sparta." – A user
Back?
I haven’t posted since Joanna and Doug’s graduation last year. The end of an era I suppose.
I haven’t posted regularly since way before that – it’s mainly something I did to procrastinate from doing school work. So I guess this blog really died around June 2006.
I’ve recently gone through the trouble of migrating it to [...]
Game Developers Conference 2007
Last week was crazy. I spent most of it at GDC, the largest annual event in the videogame industry. As I mentioned in a previous post, I went to GDC to both compete in the Student Finalist Showcase (10 games out of 102 submitted made the cut; our game Euclidean Crisis was one of [...]
