Category: Misc

Anyone that has studied game development has come across Bob Nystrom's excellent Game Programming Patterns site, well now finally the book is in print and eBook format :) Although all the content is still free on the website, I'd highly recommend picking up a copy, it's such a valuable resource and I find myself going back to it frequently to browse and be reminded of some bad habits I may be letting slip into my code!

I've recently been helping my girlfriend set up her own website and noticed how terribly slow the MySQL backend I'm using on here is.....might up and move the site at some point, unless anyone can point me in the direction of a good MySQL provider in the Azure Western Europe DC?

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I really need to post more, but it's been a hectic summer heading into Autumn due to various professional and personal circumstances! We're in the midst of crunch time at Blue Byte so free time is at a premium, compounded by my hopeless addiction to Destiny since it's release :'(

Anyway, I promise to start writing at least a weekly article, on stuff. I'll sign off with my favourite tweet of the week :

That's one way of putting it when your multi-million dollar space rocket explodes on the launchpad!

PS if anyone on PS4 wants to team up for some Destiny weeklies/raid, add me on PSN : middgen

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It's been a bit quiet here, although I doubt there are many people waiting with baited breath ;) My move into the games industry has happened a little faster than I had anticipated, and I started work at Ubisoft Blue Byte here in Düsseldorf a couple of weeks ago. I'm now doing frontend development on The Settlers Online, which is an amazing opportunity and I'm really enjoying getting to know a whole new industry It's certainly a refreshing work environment after my previous roles!

So I'm no longer spending my days trying to develop games to make a living, although I am spending some free time sharpening up my skills. I have an Oculus Rift DK2 on order and at the moment I'm working on some little prototypes, and brushing up on C++ in Unreal Engine 4.

I'm still going to maintain this site, but it's going to turn into more of a personal blog, with some tutorials and code samples as and when my Oculus development progresses.

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I've been spending a little time running through Adobe's Stage3D and Starling APIs the last couple of days. Obviously fairly primitive compared to UE4 and Unity but it is serving a purpose dredging up the ActionScript from the memory banks! Here's a little (hardware accelerated!) dude you can move around if you have Flash enabled. It has only a VERY crude animation state machine so excuse the glitches. I'll clean it up next week.

 

Good exercise digging back down in the lower level stuff, took me back to the OpenGL days at uni! Now off for a couple of days so it'll probably be a tad quiet....

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