Creating a 3D Game Engine (Part 9)

  Today I have finally gotten a simple sort of animation working. It looks easy, but I made my life a lot harder by implementing by own math library. So far I have a Vector3D and a Matrix4x4 class almost finished. Well the Vector class is pretty much done. The Matrix class still needs some fleshing out, but I got it working well

Creating a 3D Game Engine (Part 8)

So I buckled down and spent the better half of the day actually getting something to show on the screen. Yes, it’s still just a triangle, but it feels pretty satisfying after struggling to get it to work all morning. While there are tons of triangle tutorials online, and it would seem like a 20 minute hack, I ended up having some difficulty for

Review: Beginning DirectX 11 Game Programming by Allen Sherrod

Beginning DirectX 11 Game Programming by Allen Sherrod is, what I’d consider, a great introduction into DirectX programming. Just to be clear, it’s really only an overview of the DirectX APIs (Direct3D, DirectInput, etc.) and not really a graphics or game programming book (despite the title). So there is very little in the way of actual gameplay type programming, as you never really

Creating a 3D Game Engine (Part 7)

I know it has been quite some time since the last update, and I thought I would be much further by now. Truth be told, I have been a little distracted the last few months with things totally tangential to graphics programming. In any case, I’ve had some motivation recently to continue on the 3D game engine and began doing further research and

This is Cyberpunk: TECHNOLUST Kickstarter Campaign Live

Now this is my kind of game: a cyberpunk first-person adventure set in a dystopian future. Native Oculus Rift support. A NSFW TRON poster (though I bet they will take that out). This just looks too awesome for words. I backed the Kickstarter for $50 bucks, but I’m willing to up the ante later in the campaign if necessary. Really anyone with an

Review: OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook by Ilya Grinblat & Alex Peterson was, I guess, what it advertised itself as; a quick cookbook of recipes using OGRE. What is was not was a good inspection of the OGRE engine itself. Really what the book amounted to was a series of short chapters, each tackling a specific programming problem. While there is nothing wrong with

Review: Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner’s Guide

Honestly I’m not sure why I bothered with this book. It’s not that it was a bad read per se, but it’s really for stark beginners. Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D by Terry Norton is really for people that have little or no experience with programming. Meaning if you don’t know what a ‘variable’ or a ‘method’ is then this book will

Review: Game Engine Design and Implementation by Alan Thorn

Alan Thorn’s Game Engine Design and Implementation was quite an interesting read. Overall I thought it was good, but the book struggles at times to find it’s audience. On one hand, it covers a lot of great topics and there are some good code snippets to be found. On the other hand, it seems to jump around between APIs and frameworks and never really

Innovative Augmented & Virtual Reality Glasses on Kickstarter

Looks like the VR/AR crowd-funding freight-train is not slowing down one bit. The latest success story being castAR, a set of stereo 3D augmented reality glasses from ex-Valve engineers. At first I was not all that excited about the project, seeing as I am more of a VR buff than for AR. However, this project looks too interesting to pass up. Basically the