Managed World

While Chris is at it, I thought I would post that I'm also a member of the IGDA. Unlike others though, I'm in it for the chicks. And I'm not talking about women, I'm talking about the baby ducks. Yeah, Baby, Yeah!!!!

 You know, I find myself fascinated by software architecture. I love looking at how other people have approached the problem of designing a game engine. Unfortunately, that usually involves reverse-engineering a bunch of source code. If any of you out there (meaning my handful of subscribers) are like me, you might want to look at the reference for the NeoEngine here.

I have absolutely no idea HOW I came across this, but I'm glad I did. Do you know of any API references out there that you would like to share? They don't have to be "top-notch," I'm just intrigued by any of these kinds of references. The way I look at it is that it's always a good thing to try to look at topics you're familiar with in a different light.

Enjoy!

Will you be there? I know I will.

From what I know, my buddy Chris Williams (of Heroic Adventure fame, of course (if you've never heard of Heroic Adventure, wonder on over and give it a try, especially if you're feeling a little nastalgic)) will be there. So far, I've heard of a couple of others that will also be there, like ZMan and David Weller.

If you're going to be there, drop me a line and perhaps we can meet up for drinks sometime. One thing is for sure, it's going to be a blast. 

Testing a code snippit:

public void Test() { // do something here }

I’m mostly posting this here for my own sake, but perhaps someone else is having the issue out there too.

Basically, my computer rebooted unexpectedly today (first time in a long time), so I whipped open the Event Viewer to see what happened. Well, to my surprise, the Event Viewer logs hadn’t been updated since November, 2004. That was quite a surprise to me, that’s for sure. I’m not sure if this stopped working when I installed SP2 or what, but it was an easy fix. Basically, I went into the properties for each log (right click the log in Event Viewer and select Properties), and chose the option “Overwrite events as needed” and cleared the logs. Once I did that, everything started working normally. Oh well! Most likely, I probably did something stupid a while ago that hosed it. At least it’s working now!

Hello everyone. I'm throwing this post out there as a call for ideas. Here in Portland, Oregon, we are looking at having a Game Development track at our Code Camp towards the end of July. I have a bunch of things that *I* would like to see, but Code Camp is not about me, it is about all of you out there. What kinds of things would you like to see (or even present) when it comes to a Game Development track? None of these talks need to be DirectX-specific as the Code Camp is not sponsored by Microsoft.

I would throw up the ideas I have but I don't want them to influence all of your ideas. Please feel free to shoot me an email at jolson88 AT yahoo DOT com or simply post a comment here on this post. I'm hoping to combine all these ideas over the next week to start to get a good idea and doing some planning for the track soon.

And remember, Code Camps are about the local community. So if you are wanting to perhaps be a presenter, let me know and we'll see what we can do.