I should probably be working on making my pong game build with a GNU Makefile, but I'm kind of unmotivated and just sitting here. I'm not really sure what's wrong with the Makefile I wrote, which adds to the problem - lack of information about the problem makes it less interesting to me. If I had a bunch of information, some of it seemingly ( Read more... )

Did really well. I guess I enjoy writing games? Hard to tell. I enjoy pushing myself like this.

Project for class due last December was demo'ed to the instructor today.

( I probably got an A )

Have made some progress on pong; progress on the console homework is proceeding but I'm going to be up for a while. Mostly because I got NUT running on the E-250 (sans SSL, which I'll muck with later - I've forgotten a lot about library/runpath games on Solaris). Now both systems are watching the UPS, hoping - praying - that it doesn't lose power ( Read more... )

Spent a lot of time this weekend working on my projects (because now there are two).

Biggest thing left to add to the first is sound, but I think I'm going to work on gameplay for a bit and then come back to sound. Since pong is pong, I need to add paddles, and a score-keeping object (I've got everything in place to notify such an object, when it ( Read more... )

That was easier than I thought.

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I'm on vacation this week, enforced by my employer... and it's not half bad. Rather than sit about, I've had my head buried in 3-D trig, object-oriented design, and OpenGL. It's exhilerating going back to my math library and having a reason for it, even if the only book I've used from it is the oldest and least interesting (so far).

( For my amusement )

Two weeks left until the end of this class... I'm not where I need to be. Thanks to $employer I have money riding on the class (rather than the money I spent just going down the drain), so I'm pretty motivated to finish the project. Simple 3D game (Pong inside a sphere) using OpenGL and libSDL, it can't be that hard right ( Read more... )

My class (Game Programming & Graphics) started last night. I was very pleasantly surprised; five or six other students, and I was probably the youngest and on the low end of the scale as far as time spent as a professional programmer. That pretty much alleviates my worst fears right there.

( Some I'm working on today. )