Kylegar’s Blog

Dunno what I’m gonna write here, so, I’ll just ramble a bit

Watched the entire season of Firefly. Really sad that it only lasted like 14 episodes. It was a VERY good show, and makes me want to watch Serenity again. My favorite line is when they discover that River Tam can read minds, and Wash is like “Mind Reading? That’s like, Science Fiction or something” and Zoe responds “Wash, You’re on a space ship”. I laughed pretty hard at that.

In other news, I did quite a bit of work on Empires, adding custom tracers, Lightning tanks, and watching Ark make laser rifles. Also, Resist scripts are fully in, and I’m getting alot of good feedback from it, working through bugs and little naggles, and finally getting it in. It’s really good to set up things this explicit, with specific resists for each weapon type. It gives us far more room to balance Cannons vs Missiles, as well as creates some interesting tactics to watch out for.

Also, The Rattle did an interview of the Empires team…That should show up in a few days. Lots of good questions, and some even better answers from the development team. Look forward to it.

I’m also working on a psuedo-AI/pathfinding/brainmagic algorithm for a quad-rotor robot. It’s a flying robot that’s supposed to find it’s way around a room, and find a picture. I’m doing the planning and navigation part, and I have to make it completely automated (no interaction from humans). It’s gonna be AWESOME.

~Kylegar

Kylegar C++, Development, Empires, Games

Got my Asus Eee PC the other day.  Must say, I’m in love with it.  It’s small, light, fast, and it runs Eeebuntu. It’s pretty awesome.

Yea, it’s pretty cool.

Uni is going well.  Learning java and stuffs.  Pretty simple classes, but, it’s fun.

Saw Curious Case of Benjamin Button the other week.  Pretty good movie, I like how much it made me think about what life would be like if I was growing younger instead of older.  I got choked up on the part where he had to leave his family.  It was pretty sad.

Did some coding on my Eee.  I’m getting tired of typing std::cout every time I want to print something, so, I moved what I was working on to a 2d rendering window.  I think this is actually going to become my 2d engine more than what the other set of code I was working on is.  This is a simple world with a dynamic size, and a camera object to look at it.  I also wrote a base static tile and a base moveable tile object, that I’m going to derive everything off of.  For drawing, I just have a 64×64 sprite, but, it should start taking shape the next few days.  I have all the source code on my Eee, since I think I’m going to try the beta of Windows 7 on my desktop.  I have heard nothing but good, and I have the iso burned to a disc…I just need to install it now.

Yea, thats about it.  I have a ton of classwork to do, but I think I’m going to go eat first.

Kylegar C++, Class, Development, Empires, Engine, Games, Life, Uncategorized