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!

The Telamon Chaos Institute Brings You…

My job is basically to create chaos, something I feel uniquely qualified to do.

ROBLOX? More like LOLBLOX!

"God darn it, I didn’t enter. DARN! I would use profanity but this is Roblox. Not Sparta." – A user

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 [...]

Beverly Hills: Sole Survivor

I‘m not even sure that my blogging software is still configured correctly. I haven’t really posted anything since I came back from my summer vacation in NY.
Here’s some highlight from the past three months:

Went to the NY MOMA. Saw Starry Night and Empire of Light

Moved into totally sweet house in Woodside

Continued to work at Roblox, [...]

Living the Dream

My first week as a professional game developer has been pretty awesome. Here are some of the things I have done:

Made the main character able to jump

Made a medpack

Made a time bomb

Built a tower

Build a fort

Built a children’s hospital

Blew up a children’s hospital with a rocket launcher
If you have some time this weekend, we just [...]

Gainfully Employed!

This was a great week on the job hunting front. Jo got a job offer from Volkswagen – they want her to work in the Palo Alto lab on hybrids, fuel cells, biodiesel, and other green stuff – which is pretty much exactly what she was looking to do. I accepted a job offer at [...]