Google Summer of Code!

My proposal to OGRE3D (the 3d engine I've used for virtually every game project I've done over the past few years) was accepted for GSoC 2011!

I'll be creating a visual testing framework for OGRE.

Since traditional unit testing would be a huge task for something as big as OGRE, and since it really woundn't address all the possible issues, I'm creating a system that allows you to define small test scenes that can be screencaptured and compared between builds, as well as a tool for comparing the generated images.

Tigcompo: Versus

I'm making a game for the ongoing "Versus"-themed Tigsource competition. At this point I have no idea what I'm actually making, but it has been an excuse to do all the cool technical junk I've been meaning to get to over the past while.

Given the theme, I've set up a networking subsystem for the engine (based on enet, since it's cross platform, I still need to get to learning raw socket stuffs though...). At the moment you can have multiple players moving about the level at once (it's all done client-side and just echoed by the server, so security is non-existent).

I also set up a Mincraft-style cube rendering setup. This had been on my "oh cool, I wanna try that!" list for a while, and I finally got to it. Still needs optimization, but it's pretty fast even as it is (as in minecraft, only the "shell" of the map is rendered, to avoid the horrendous batching issues that'd arise if you literally used a bunch of cubes).

I also made a cool explosion effect based on this old gamedev article.

Ludum Dare 19 Results!

Ludum Dare 19 results are in!

My game, Aquatic did pretty darn well, especially considering the 8 hours without power and 24 hours without internet. Click the link thingy below for full rankings.

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I have a website!

Yay!

Curious to see how Hawk Host pans out as a webhost, but so far so good (good reputation, and it was cheap). I'm surprised rileyadams.net was available. Seems a bit tacky using my name for the domain, but I couldn't think of anything witty, and eventually I'll probably use this as a portfolio/resume so oh well.

Site design is a bit iffy, I threw it together with what little CSS/HTML I remember from the web design class I took a while back... so it's subject to change a good deal.

I'm using a very simple custom blog setup, since Wordpress and the like seem a bit bloated for my simple needs.