Category Archives: Design

Thoughts about the new direction

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Alex

I’ve been thinking about other space-based, sandboxish games set in large universes.  Privateer, freelancer, X3.  Maybe I can have the player set up bases on planets.  Some planets are worthless, some are good for mining, and some are good for … Continue reading →

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A fundamental change to the direction of the game

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Alex

Today’s version is a major revision.  I’ve decided not to go musical.  More strategic.  Larger in size.  With gravity and planets and bases and maybe convoys and a UNIVERSE.  I’ve got a vision, it’s partially inspired by this game I … Continue reading →

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Weapondata.txt

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Alex

I’ve worked a bit on AI recently.  It’s not in there, but almost!  (Of course, I’m talking about very basic ship movement AI here).  The data structures are in place and initialized, the ship update function is being called, I … Continue reading →

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Very little progress, but decisions have been made.

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Alex

I’ve been going back and forth on whether the objects in this game need to be three dimensional, two dimensional but with polygons defined in OGL to handle transparency and shape, or two dimensional squares with their transparency and shapes … Continue reading →

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Shaders

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Alex

I’ve started reading about shaders.  Ends up there’s a whole extra programming language, “openGL Shading Language”, even beyond what’s basically a programming language embedded in function calls in normal openGL.  Fortunately the syntax is mostly a subset of C. But … Continue reading →

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Combining weapons

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Alex

I’ve been reading the OpenGL blue book.  Reading hundreds of pages of dense technical data without much context is getting tedious. I’ve also been thinking, you know what game was fun?  That kirby 64 game.  And it was fun not … Continue reading →

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