For those who have not heard of Euclidean Crisis… Euclidean Crisis is a realtime strategy game for the TabletPC. Uniquely, it is designed to be played using solely the tablet stylus and voice command. Euclidean Crisis casts players strategic commanders …More
Tag: c#
DirectPain
[rant] This is making me very sad. Why was DirectDraw deprecated? Here’s the situation. I’m making a tile based game in C# using MDX and Direct3D. I’m trying to achieve real time framerates and having a dismal time at it. …More
When CS247 Attacks!
This week has been absolutely awful. I don’t think I’ve ever been up until 8AM four days in a row. We mailed out our CS143 semantic analyzer on Tuesday – working perfectly but sans secret characters or the victimize keyword. …More
… and castles made of sand
Things I am thinking about: CastlesAdventuresSandbox WorldsGame ProgrammingM:TG Card SellingRoguelikesCantor Art MuseumStructure from Motion => OgreCoding in C#Faculty Ghetto WalkingWarcraft w/ Erc & KejiaPainting Things I am doing: CompilersCoding in EmacsHCI BSMachine Vision CompetitionCOM ProgrammingKitchen/Room CleaningJob hunting Current mood: gdb …More
The Heroic Adventures of @
// 2DRL in 2K// Source code by Steven Fuerst <sfuerst@stanford.edu>// Modified to numpad control and compiled for Windows by Jakub Debski. #include <stdlib.h>#include <curses.h>#include <time.h>#define X 256#define E struct E#define V void#define S(i) ((i)>0?1:(i)<0?-1:0)#define R(i) ((rand()>>8)%i)#define Z return o->n;#define F(i) …More
I know Hough
This is a black and white image that I created in Paint Shop by extracting all the edges out of a pastoral image my dad took in Delaware over Christmas. This is the result of applying the Hough Line Transform …More
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
Doors! Over the past couple of days I have added doors to Witherwyn. They can be opened, closed, and smashed in by right-clicking on them and using the handy context menu that pops up. Getting the bitmaps on the context …More
*Gratified*
Got this email today: “Greetings! For the past few days, I have been exhaustively going over the code to your PerlinDevice. I downloaded and compiled both versions. [...] As mentioned on your site, I too was looking for something that …More
Witherwyn Project Page
I set up a dedicated page for my roguelike, Witherwyn today. At the moment it’s more a demo than a game. Witherwyn is the only roguelike available on the internet written in C# (as far as I can tell). Source …More
QuickSort = O(pwned)
On a 2.8 Ghz Xeon CPU, QuickSorting a million elements takes between 17 (if you use Intel’s compiler optimized for Hyper Threading) to 21 (MS Visual C++) seconds. Unless, of course, you have a really good graphics card. The trend …More

