Adventures

A late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!

I got through Christmas and new year without too many extra pounds and all my fingers intact.

I just recovered from a small problem with the database - I thought I had tested my database backup-restore process, but apparently not that good because it wasn't working as I expected! So with a slightly older backup and some help from the Google cache (cheers!) I think the site is back to its former state except for some of comments, sorry about that!

I have update a few things and double checked my backup-restore scheme, so hopefully this won't happen again.

I really need to get better at posting more often here :-)

The last few weeks I've been working on a classic 2D platform game. I got the basic game mechanics working and a neat little map editor. I hope to post some more about this soon and upload a few screenshots.

I've heard from a reliable source that I will be getting a XBOX 360 this christmas, so I'm looking forward to trying my platformer on that and maybe release it as a community game on XLCG. I still haven't figured out what to do about graphics, my developer art skills is somewhat lacking ;-)

Currently my 3D space game test is on hold due to me and the camera code no getting along that well.

I've recently returned from this year's Maxterdam, a two day mechanical modeling seminar held by 3D-Palace's Cris Robson.
I was great meeting Cris and some of the other regulars from 3D-Palace - my feet still hurts from the massive pub-crawl that concluded the second day!

The first day we learned about mechanical limb design, making an arm from the upcoming Pariah tutorial set - awesome stuff.

The second day we then rigged the arm got a few tricks for using spline controllers for animating it.

Cris also gave a good introduction to particle flow and the cool stuff that you can do with that. Oh, and I learned at much faster way of doing quick mental ray wip renders!

I hope to go there next year if I can convince the minister of internal affairs, that is!

I've created the comment system, photo gallery and file archive stuff. I have already uploaded some project images to the gallery and I will be adding more later on.
For now I don't have any files posted in the file archive - I still need to clean up the source code for some of the projects before I want to share it ;-)

Anyways if there are some paticular project that you would like to see some more images from or maybe some source code snipplets, the leave a comment at that project.

If you want to send me a private message I have added a contact form to do just that. You can find it on the About page.

I have fiddled some more with the web site code and added a few more project descriptions. Next on my todo list for the site is a photo gallery and a post comment system.

When I'm done making this site I think I'll continue on my space game engine or maybe, if I'm in that mood, my cargo vessel modeling project! I just saw an awsome modeling project over on 3D Palace that really made me want to do some modeling again.

So, I finally made my site/blog!

My main plan is to use this place to write about my game development and 3D drawing experiences.
I have made a section where I intend to write about the different projects I am working on.

Maybe at some point I'll do some XNA tutorials...

That's it for now, I hope I'll post some interresting stuff here that someone might find useful.