Under a ShadowyTree

Stop working on graphics,start working on gameplay!
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Black Knight
September 23, 2011
NightFall getting in good shape
Done a lot of work on Nightfall, check it out at http://apps.facebook.com/nightfall

Also the game we are working on at work is finally went live.

Check out Dirty Dancing at : http://apps.facebook.com/dirtydancinggame.
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Black Knight
March 10, 2011
What happened to the OpenGL community?
Back in the day when OpenGL was popular there were tons of resources on it, nowadays everything is out-of-date or very spread out. Opengl.org is really lacking in terms of useful docs and there isn't a real SDK as the D3D one.

Since OpenGL is pretty much on par with D3D11 in terms functionality I a…
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Black Knight
February 14, 2011
App on facebook
Not much happening around here, other than a cold winter and tons of snow.

The application we are working on facebook has gone public on facebook, you can try it out here : Prize Arcade

I have programmed the front end of this app in ActionScript 3 and using the Flex 3 Framework.

You can play and enter…
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Black Knight
November 12, 2010
Flex 4 Background Image Fail
Seriously why did adobe made putting a background image to controls so much harder between flex 3 and flex 4?

In flex3 most of the components have a backgroundImage property.



And you are done.

In Flex 4 you have have to either write tons of code to create a custom skin and do something like :



or use …
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Black Knight
September 03, 2010
Javascript map editor
I am working on a map editor for the browser game.
Looks like it is not possible to get image clicks for items inside a canvas because all mousedown/up and click events are sent to the canvas.

So I had to loop through all tiles and check which tile is clicked to modify it.

Tiles and panning can be sel…
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Black Knight
September 02, 2010
Facebook App
Having fun for the last couple of days with a facebook game. It is just a fun pet project nothing serious, done completely in &#106avascript with the canvas tag. It doesn't work in IE as it doesn't support it yet but IE9 should support it.

Here is the link to the facebook app :

Maldera

You can st…
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Black Knight
August 11, 2010
Samsung galaxy s
I got this new phone a few days ago. It's pretty neat. It has shitload of features
but if I try to type all it would take ages. I'm still trying to get used to
swype.

The phone has android 2.1 and will get 2.2 with flash 10.1
Support.

I'm still working part time as a python game programmer.
Planning to g…
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Black Knight
May 07, 2010
Dark Age v0.4.1144
This is a small update to Dark Age that adds new quests,dialogues,models and grass to terrain. I have also fixed a few issues that might crash the game in some cases. The game is still not balanced so it might be too hard/easy depending on how you play.

Here is the down load link :

Download

Here is th…
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Black Knight
May 07, 2010
Vertical
I finally got myself another monitor.I set it up to vertical orientation 1080x1920.

Dark Age source looks like this.


And this is how my setup looks now

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Black Knight
April 26, 2010
Grass
Its 2 am so I will just post a screenshot for now.I will describe how I did the grass effect later.



Good night journal ! :)

Ok here is how the grass is done.

First of the grass is a 3d model created in a modelling program.It looks like this :



And this is the texture map on it(it is ugly but it can be …
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Black Knight
April 21, 2010
Missing texture
I added something that I wanted to do for a long time to Dark Age.I store all my textures in a std::map with the file name as the key.And when models,terrain etc are loaded they ask the texture manager for a texture file and the texture manager returns a reference to the texture.Previously when a t…
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Black Knight
April 12, 2010
Testing Flex
After playing around with Flex 4 and action script 3.0 I have managed to put together a simple site.It can be found here.
I am planning on making this a simple browser role playing game.

Everything in the game is done with flex components with custom skins.For example the buttons on the login panel a…
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Black Knight
February 18, 2010
Dark Age v0.4.1101
The new release of my game is ready after two months.Here are the download links and the change log.Have fun and please let me know if you encounter any bugs or crashes.

I need help with character models and animations so if you think you can help just drop a message or send an email.

Download :
Dark …
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Black Knight
January 11, 2010
Dark Age Dialog Editor & Dialogs
I have finally managed to implement the first dialog system into the game.It is a very simple system which consists of strings stored in text files in a hierarchical manner.

The first step was to create a tool to create these dialog files.I was very tired of doing everything in pure c++ and win32 so…
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Black Knight
December 17, 2009
Dark Age v0.4.1006 Released
The new release is ready after another busy month.This release contains lots of new features,improvements and fixes.I have found a couple of bugs that would crash the game or editor in certain circumstances,hopefully they are fixed now.

The game has locked doors now which require the correct key to …
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Black Knight
November 30, 2009
Editor
Working on the map and new areas in the world editor.
Here is a screenshot for your viewing pleasure:




How it looked 2 years ago


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Black Knight
November 25, 2009
VC++ 2010 Expresss
Downloading Visual CPP 2010 Express beta 2,gonna check how they screwed the GUI again and see how slow it runs :).
All the versions are available here

Here is how the new IDE looks :



I don't know if this is a new feature or not but after enabling build timing from the settings the output window displ…
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Black Knight
November 15, 2009
Dark Age Version 0.4.869 Released!
At last a new release after 6 months.This release contains lots of stuff so I will just post the change log.I have added the first skills to the game.There are 9 skills in total but two of them are not working at the moment.Lock picking is not working as doors can't be locked at the moment.This is …
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Black Knight
November 02, 2009
Dark Age on new computer and shots of next release
After the posts of my new computer it was inevitable to show Dark Age running on the new computer.Before I got my new computer I was working on Dark Age on my crappy laptop(which died 2 the day I bought the new computer) with a geforce 8600m gs graphics card.It had a 128 bit memory interface so it …
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Black Knight
October 26, 2009
Building the new computer
Here I am sitting infront of an old computer of my brother's refreshing the fedex tracking page waiting for the parts to arrive while everyones going to work or school :) The parts seem to be at the Toronto sort facility right now.They should be here in one hour.I will start assembling and post pic…
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Black Knight
October 22, 2009
New Computer on the way
I bought a new computer today and will probably have it in 1-2 days.
Here are the specs :

Asus P7P55D Socket 1156 Intel P55 Chipset CrossfireX Dual-Channel DDR3 2133*/1600/1333/1066Mhz GigaLAN 8-Ch HD Audio 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slots 6x SATA + 1x eSATA 3Gb/s 12x USB 2.0 ATX
Intel Core i5 750 Quad…
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Black Knight
October 14, 2009
Extending Dark Age World Editor with C#
I am pretty tired of doing all the GUI work in pure win32 so I wanted to use c# for the world editor.Converting all of it to C# isn't really an option because there is just too much code in it.So I decided to implement new dialogs with C# and run them from the C++ code with shell execute.

For exampl…
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Black Knight
October 11, 2009
More work on skyplane.
I have done more work on my sky plane in Dark Age.Previously I was drawing a sky plane in one pass and combining two textures for clouds and adding a color based on the height of the vertex.This was working nice until I decided to add a sun billboard in.Because the actual sky and clouds are drawn i…
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Black Knight
September 25, 2009
glBase
I made some more work on my little opengl framework.
I was using sourceforge but for some reason its interface is making me want to rip my eyes out so I changed to assembla,but assembla doesn't have any kind of stats and searching other projects is totally fail.I might try out codeplex as it has a b…
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Black Knight
September 21, 2009
New Monitor
Yay! I got a new monitor.No computer yet so I plugged it to the laptop and doing my coding work on it.It is pretty nice here is a picture :

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Black Knight
September 17, 2009
What's going on?
So here is a short summary of what's going on.

We are still staying with my brother but we will soon move to a small apartment in downtown Toronto which is very close to Art Gallery of Ontario.My wife is working very close to the Art Gallery so we won't spend time and tons of money(greedy TTC) on tr…
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Black Knight
August 17, 2009
We are in Toronto.
We finaly arrived in Toronto.It pretty great so far,we liked the numerous parks and especially the beaches area.

We have some work to do like getting social insurance numbers,applying for health insurace,opening a bank account etc.

The weather is pretty hot here which is suprising,I always thought Ca…
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Black Knight
July 03, 2009
We have the visas
We got our permanent resident visas 2 days ago and bought our plane tickets.
We will fly from Istanbul to Toronto on 15th of august,the flight will take 11 hours so I'm thinking what to do on the plane for that long.Any advice?

Also I want to take some of the pieces of my computer to Canada and I don…
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Black Knight
June 22, 2009
Moving soon
Well, I haven't been around lately.There is going to be a great change in our life soon.We are moving to Canada in two months.I will quit my job in two weeks and then we will get our permanent resident visas and hop on a plane to Toronto.
Tomorrow I am going to give a presentation at school about CU…
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Black Knight
May 12, 2009
portfolio site
I have started working on a portfolio website.It is still under construction,in fact I had the page before but it was plain php now I have installed drupal on that page too and adding content to it.

Here it is :
MyPortfolio

Hopefully I will send this page out to some game studios(probably in Canada) …
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