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The life of a Games Programmer: Improving the runner
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Wednesday, January 01, 2014. So, I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the changes we've made to the runner, why, and what impact it's had on performance. Back when we started, the main complaint with Game Maker was that it was too slow, and that for more complex games, it just didn't cut it. This is clearly not the case any more, so what's really changed? Couple this with the new texture pages, and if you were just drawing spr...
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The life of a Games Programmer: C64 raster splits
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Saturday, July 05, 2008. C64 sprites are great and all, but they really screw with your raster splits. Depending on how many sprites are over a raster, what character line we're on you may end up with virtually NO cpu cycles left at all! Looking up some timing info on the VIC ( HERE. Shows that BAD lines all sprites leaves you with less that 10 CPU cycles a scanline, and only 4 write cycles at the start. Your post inspired me to write this.
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The life of a Games Programmer: May 2010
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Sunday, May 02, 2010. DMA Design radio program. A while back the BBC did a little radio program on Dave and DMA Design, it's a pretty good program and well worth a listen. It's mainly four of us talking about how it all started, and you can hear Dave, Me, Russell and Steve talking about how it all got going. Anyway. it's pretty good, so have a listen. 2 Smart arse replys. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Been a Games Programmer for 26(!
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The life of a Games Programmer: October 2014
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Friday, October 17, 2014. Why aiming for 60fps or full 1080p is a pointless goal. So yet again on the web I've seen posts by journalists that 1080p is worthwhile, and that devs should be spending all their time trying to make full 1080p/60fps games, and yet again, it gets my back up. A few year back I did a post about the mass market, which was an article I did way back in 2004 ( A new direction in gaming. The same is true of games, sure y...
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The life of a Games Programmer: 2013 - The year of travelling.
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. 2013 - The year of travelling. 2013 kicked off with a trip to CES where we had been invited to take part in MIPS presence at the show. Sandy, knowing my utter love of all things MIPS asked if I'd like to go, and I jumped at the chance! It was decided to get a proper stand this year, something Russell and I were overjoyed about, as we wouldn't have to carry the stand over there this time! So job done, we packed u...
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The life of a Games Programmer: August 2014
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Sunday, August 24, 2014. The beginners guide to Ray Tracing. So, I was asked recently on Twitter how Ray Tracing works, but it's not something that you can easily explain in 140 characters, so I thought I'd do a small post to explain it better. Doing Ray Tracing, is no different. First create a box aligned with the Z axis, so the planes run along the "X" axis. something like. (values not real/worked out! Float fx,fy,fdx,fdy; float nz = 0&#...
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The life of a Games Programmer: RetroEdit to-do list
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Sunday, January 18, 2009. So, heres my current to-do list. I'll update THIS blog entry as I change things, so you can always check back here to see where I am. I'll add a link on the right for easy access. Paint with colour 1 (left mouse). Paint with colour 2 (right mouse). Rotate frame (up,down,left,right). Cursor key movement or cursor. Brush paste (like a sprite, drops out the background colour). Save data (native format).
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The life of a Games Programmer: The beginners guide to Ray Tracing
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Sunday, August 24, 2014. The beginners guide to Ray Tracing. So, I was asked recently on Twitter how Ray Tracing works, but it's not something that you can easily explain in 140 characters, so I thought I'd do a small post to explain it better. Doing Ray Tracing, is no different. First create a box aligned with the Z axis, so the planes run along the "X" axis. something like. (values not real/worked out! Float fx,fy,fdx,fdy; float nz = 0&#...
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The life of a Games Programmer: September 2014
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The life of a Games Programmer. My personal thoughts and musings. Wednesday, September 17, 2014. When Scotland changes forever. In a world of history, a truly historic event is rare, but that's what Scotland gets tomorrow. On the 18th of September 2014, we the people of Scotland, get to vote on Independence. We get to decide whether we break away from the United Kingdom, or whether we stay. But either way, things look like they'll change, for the worse or better is anyone's guess. Well, at the start I wa...
