Brainfold

Yes, I know, I have been quiet on this blog for over half a year now. That doesn’t mean I’m dead; quite the opposite, since I have been really busy with Real Life and professional game development. However, as some of you might have noticed from my Twitter feed, I have been working [...]

My latest excuse for not getting anything done on Artillery Brawl or any other projects is that I just landed a job in the game industry! I didn’t want to announce it on the blog before I got a contract, but today I got one as a programmer for Bugbear Entertainment. It’s interesting and kind [...]

I have succesfully moved to Helsinki, though the apartment is of course still a mess. While organizing the apartment, I also decided to reorganize my Portfolio page. Please check it out, all kinds of comments are very welcome!
I should be hearing about the job next week.

Since I have the job interview on Thursday, I decided to brush up my rusty C++ skills and make a quick work sample while at it, as I haven’t really worked with the language since about 2004. The position I’m applying for is UI programmer, so I made a simple but relatively flexible “game style” [...]

I haven’t updated for a while again. Let’s get gamedev news out of the way first. I haven’t worked on Artillery Brawl for a couple of weeks; instead, I have tried to get the card game ready for testing. I made some prototype cards by putting pieces of paper in sleeves that are opaque on [...]

The good news is, suddenly I got a whole lot more free time for game development.
The bad news is, I don’t have a job anymore (yay for the economic situation).
I didn’t just freeze and panic though; instead, I called a friend at a game company I was applying to for the summer, and told I [...]

As part of my effort to integrate Lepton for particle effects, I have been implementing a system of triggers and payloads to make projectiles more interesting in general. The system is heavily inspired by the similar payload system for my old artillery game, Arty, which I wrote about earlier, but of course redesigned and modernized [...]

Remember when I said “if I don’t hit any further roadblocks”, I would add particle effects to Artillery Brawl this week? Well, guess what…
The bad news is, I had to spend a whole evening porting lepton to Windows so Visual C++ would compile it.
The good news is, I’m now the maintainer and tester of the [...]

Just a quick update… I have been fixing all the stuff that was broken since the change to multi-part units and then some, and everything should be ready for finally implementing particle effects. I even implemented fake sweeping collisions for shells by making them face their velocity vector and making their collision rectangle longer than [...]

I just wrote my last lines of Python for this year. I haven’t got to particle explosions (I’m going to try lepton for those) or other interesting bits yet, and the code doesn’t actually even run at the moment… as usual, one thing led to another while working on small fixes, and I’m just about [...]