I was fortunate enough to attend the talk Rich Geldreich of Valve Software gave at the OpenGL Anniversary party duing SIGGRAPH 2012 in the JW Marriot Gold Ballroom in LA: “Left 4 Dead 2 Linux: From 6 to 300 FPS in OpenGL.” Update: As Rich himself was so kind to …
In november last year, id Software released the id Tech 4 source code – the inner workings of Doom 3, that is, on Github, and people have been happily hacking away at it ever since. I found this website by Fabien Sanglard, on which he goes into great detail on …
Here’s some recent game graphics talks I’ve been enjoying. First one is Carmack on Quakecon 2011 – it’s a very technical talk, but very interesting on how they do texture streaming on consoles, compared to pc systems.
I’ve been enjoying playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Call of Pripyat lately, which is the third installment in the series. For people who don’t know the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games: they are based in the fictituous radioactive ‘zone’ which was created after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It is loosely based on the novel Roadside …
I’m having a playthrough of Mafia II at the moment – went into it with a bit of hesitation because of the mixed reviews, but turns out it’s pretty okay. It focuses heavily on the story-based content, so just don’t go in expecting a free-roaming adventure, because besides buying clothes …
I’ve recently finished one of the games released in 2010 that caught a lot of negative reviews: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (metacritic page). To bring you up to speed: Kayne & Lynch is a franchise by IO Interactive (known for the Hitman series). It features two disillusioned mercenaries, …
A new trailer for mod-project-gone-pro Nuclear Dawn was released yesterday. I’m glad to see a project I’ve worked on for 2 years coming close to release. Nice how they seem to have nailed the RTS overview and node structure system, all running on the Source engine. All the best & …
Just a quick thank-you to the guys at Zombie Cow Studios. In exchange for some bug reports on their newest game Privates, I received an e-mail yesterday with free download links to their back catalogue, including the well-written point-n-clicky adventure games Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please. Thank …
I’ve spent the day reading up on shadowing techniques for real-time rendering which can be used in the Ogre3D project I’m working on. I was not familiar with the details of the shadow volume method using stencil maps. It’s actually pretty clever, and it’s interesting to read how John Carmack …
Yes, I know, more comics … Thesis was finished this morning, so more interesting stuff to come! For now, enjoy this great comic which came with the Team Fortress 2 mac update. I think it’s great how people using (traditionally) different systems can play on the same servers now. Also, …