Yay! In a year which saw games like Bioshock, Orange Box, World in Conflict, Call of Duty 4, and The Witcher, to say that Dark Avatar is amongst the top ten is an incredibly impressive feat, especially being so high on the list.
Some of my best friends over the last ten years of my life are people I found online back when I first started game development. And, for the most part, I still talk to these people on daily occasions now that we all have jobs as game programmers in the industry. It's utterly surreal when I stop to think about how far all of us have come.
There are various aspects of my personality which are decidedly ruled by what is conventionally considered to be the right-side of the brain -- the side that handles the warm, fuzzy feelings and such. I have an incredibly vivid and vibrant imagination that is constantly at work no matter what I may be doing and what I may be focusing on. Anyone who knows me has said something along the lines of "nothing can ever be realistically as fun for Trent as he imagines it to be." This may seem like a sad
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Indeed, Neil has done an incredible job. I hear he's also ten feet tall and can level entire forests with a mere yawn.
I watched Saving Private Ryan over this past weekend, since I hadn't seen it in a few years (and had only previously seen it on VHS), and I had forgotten just how great the movie really is. I wasn't sure how much I would enjoy it after watching Band of Brothers so many times due to the fact that Band of Brothers devoted so much more time to character development, as it had the luxury of a lengthy running
So, I moved into my new apartment a couple of weeks ago off in a city about thirty-or-so miles from Ann Arbor. It's a one-bedroom apartment that is, quite frankly, about one bedroom larger than I really need, but at least that gives the cat some more room to wander and stalk invisible monsters. I'm in the middle of a huge furniture <a href="http://www.polycat.ne
Well, yeah. One of the main goals with DirectX 10 was the complete overhaul of the API in such a way as to have the core API never to leave the programmer in doubt about the user's hardware capabilities. So while new features may be added, they won't be added to the "core API" in such a way as to make all DX10-capable hardware completely incapable of rendering something "hot" and "new." This was the motivation behind the DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure) component of DirectX 10. It
Even on the RTS front. Every RTS I've played in the last few years has multiplayer components in them, but do you know how many of these games I've actually played online and enjoyed the whole experience? Two. Warcraft 3 (a game that was released in, what, 2002?) and Company of Heroes. These two games have the whole multiplayer experience worked out to the point where it's easy to get into a quick match by yourself or join a game with friends, and the net code is done well enough that actual gam
Dude! I just saw a pig take flight. It was glorious. Mebbe someone could write an extension to allow primates to soar from my backside! How is this a deviation from your standard appearance?
What a great poll idea!
I think I've dropped my iPod about six or seven times in the last year. My phone, which I'm far more careful with, baby like a real child, pet when no one looking, and don't bring with me on strenuous exercise has been dropped about three or so times. The iPhone just doesn't look like it would react well to this kind of treatment. So, while it is pretty, my volatile handling of portable appliances is something that I can't justify $500 for.
Jump to: Introduction :: The First Day :: Three-Week Mark :: Personal Implications :: Conclusion Introduction As of now, I am officially a two-week-old intern programmer at the game development divisi
Jump to: Intro :: Living Spaces :: Tremories :: Conclusion Semantics and Generalities As I was driving home this afternoon for my last at-home vacation for a while, I realized that being that I only have a single exam remaining before my senior year is officially
Jump to: Introduction :: The Big Picture :: Nuclear Hugs :: Tech of the Infinite War :: Conclusion War is Fought with ACUs To say that I have been looking forward to the retail release of <a href="http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/92886
Jump to: Introduction :: Upon Release :: DS 2005 :: DS 2006 :: DS 2007+ A Dual-Screened Motivation Earlier this week I had a discussion with my mother about the Nintendo DS when I noticed, in an ad paper, that the DS Lite was being sold for $150 (a price which I recently realized is not
Jump to: The Apology :: The Personal Touch :: The Geeky Touch :: Games of 2006 :: Parting Sentiments The Apology Now that I'm officially engulfed in the first day of my Christmas vacation, I can address an increasingly vocal group of readers who are dissatisfied with the amount o
After a very small and virtually unidentifiable break from the monolithic RTS series , I decided that it was time to put my completely empty wallet's worth of money where my ever-so-large mouth is and get to work on developing some sort of game. Yes, that's right. I am actually going to work on a project that doesn't (d)evolve into me getting obsessed with some component of the overall tech which I eventually spend months tr
1) Total Annihilation was one of the most innovative RTS titles to ever hit the market, what do you feel was one of the greatest factors to its success, and how has that been migrated to the development of Supreme Commander? Chris Taylor : At the core, I would have to say it’s the “simulation”. When you simulate the exchange of weapons, you get a very different game experience… it not only looks different, but it “feels” different. I dare say that this is not something
Thanks for all the great comments, guys! Sabre : As far as genres are considered… Some genres are filled with games that are so completely different from one another that they're really a completely different game. For instance, Knights of the Old Republic and Baldur's Gate and Oblivion are all considered RPGs in the conventional sense, but there's not a whole lot in my mind that really ties these three games together other. Hell, even KOTOR and BG are relia
Jump to: The Introduction :: Company of Heroes :: Supreme Commander :: The Conclusion The Introduction (Or "Why Delays Are the New Thing ") Let's pretend that this article is getting published in a special part of a unique dimension somewhere in the vast reaches of time, space, and the Intarweb
Jump to: The Introduction :: Total Annihilation :: Starcraft :: Homeworld :: Warcraft III :: Rise of Nations :: The Conclusion The Introduction Rerevisited When I look back upon the last two segments of th
I actually loved Sacrifice ; it was one of my most-played games for a while and a game that really put Shiny on the "developer to watch" map for me. They were later taken off this map with the Matrix games, but they had a good run before that. And, while I believe the game is great, I wouldn't consider it a "real-time strategy" game by my own definition. I would honestly consider Sacrifice to be more of an action game than I would much else; there are certainly some strategic elements to i
It's in the first paragraph of the thing, but here it is anyway: http://mittens.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=129154 .
Jump to: The Introduction :: Real-Time Tactical :: Modability :: Battle.net :: Graphics and Physics :: Conclusion, etc. The Introduction -- House Mix I'm always amazed at the kind of great feedback some of you folks give to these articles; so, for th
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