Posts by Zacker

I know there are programmers in here, so this thread is for you and others with an interest in Engine Programming. As some of you might know, I was recently appointed course manager of a graduate course in Engine Programming. I do not have that much engine programming experience, so I am very much in need all the feedback and input I can get. And Mapcore tends to be good at giving feedback

You can find the course webpage here:

https://blog.itu.dk/MENP-E2009/

In there you will find course schedule, my slides and more. How does it look? Any important areas that I have left out in the course plan? Any wrong information in my slides? Any feedback is appreciated.

I am teaching Game Development and Engine Programming at a graduate program at the IT University of Copenhagen.

I really think this looks like a fantastic movie. You can totally see that it is not so much of a modern hollywood movie but more of a classic and clever sci-fi one, which is cool.

It is indeed a cool little game they got there. Very classic and accessible and yet fresh.

Now we are at the name dropping I should of course I also add that some of those are my former students.

I must also admit that it does indeed seem like a surprising and sad loss for UWE with both of those two guys leaving.

I loved this one

I would just like to join the crowd here and say that it indeed is a very solid portfolio you have there! At first I thought 7 minutes of video just for one project was a bit excessive, but it turned to interesting enough for me to watch through all of it

My eyes kinda hurt when I try to look at such pictures.

That latest rage trailer look slightly cliche, but quite awesome still.

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Hey Mazy, beeing the final core member left at IO, are you also looking for another place to work?And if so, is IO a sinking ship?

From what I know, it is most certainly not! I can not think of any company which would have been harder for me to leave than IO. As Mazy said, there was just other things in life which I felt like trying out.

To all former GRIN employees, I am very sorry to hear that! GRIN had picked up so many talents from the modding community so it is indeed very sad to see it go.

I must say that I believe their overly rapid expansion over the past few years has paid into the fact that they ran out of liquidity. Opening a new studio in another country is quite an expensive and exhausting thing to do, and they did that an a lot.

I hope and belive that many of you will soon find a job again. Don't get too dismissed by what Mazy said about IO, I recommend applying anyway. I am not entirely up-to-date anymore on what's going on in there, but it still is a great company and they have to my knowledge lost more level designers than they have gained over the past year.'

In other news if anyone cares, I am now also external lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen. I will be in charge of the Engine Programming course for their master degree, which I believe is going to be very challenging as I am not that experienced as a programmer.

Interesting, I never knew that the parts of the C&C engine used voxel technology.

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I'd hate it if WoW was just a click away :s

WoW actually has a streaming client which works very effectively and almost makes the game only a click away

Woah Dux! That is pretty amazing Many congratz with that position! Definitely a step up from TurboSquid

Mazy, I assume your brother is getting the one with just 2 seats and parrot plate? That should cut off at least 100k off the price of that baby there.

Looks pretty good and quite impressive taking into account the fact that it's your first bigger game, the small dev team and all that

One thing however which really annoyed me was that fact that you are playing all animations such as the run animations in sync. Nobody in real life swings their sword in sync with the rest of their squad. It takes very little work to add in a bit of random offsetting and it would highly increase the overall impression and believability in the game.

You can move me from Boolean Mystics to Based on Experience. BM was pretty cool in the beginning, cool concept and lots of freedom to work on whatever I wanted to. The project manager however started loosing interest in the project and we had issues getting further investments. Generally the manager performed very poor leadership and very rarely communicated with the rest of the team. The only things I saw from him the last months were my paychecks, no feedback on my work whatsoever. I couldn't work under such management, so I quit.

Before quitting BM I had already been doing a bit of contract game design work for another startup called Based on Experience. So it was natural to move to these guys after quitting BM.

At Based on Experience we are still fighting the same tough fight for investors, but at least the management here is much much better. I also have the title of Game Designer here but just as at BM I am not just doing game design, but anything from business plans to programming

Lots of new media online at http://www.minininjas.com including a gameplay trailer.

Ahh that sucks for those guys at Grin! I really feel sorry for all the Mapcorians working there.

While it probably looks dark for those fired right now, you shouldn't worry too much. There will always be a job for those of you who got the skills, which includes all the Mapcorians working there.

I am not entirely sold on the new art direction either, but regardless this looks fantastic and no doubt NS2 is going to be a great game