Things have been incredibly busy with me lately. What with a full teaching workload alongside a fairly punishing amount of research and development effort. As a member of the AI game programmers g...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 11/28/2008 (9:58 pm) Comment 5 comments

Ok, long time since I blogged here. Lots of really dull reasons, but I still read the site more than once a day :) Anyway, I need your help! Particularly, I'm trying to find out who did the rob...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 09/18/2008 (5:25 pm) Comment 15 comments

I was at a presentation a couple of months back about a product one of the thegamecreators.com had been working on. One thing he said was that whenever he starts a project, he immediately thinks of th...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 12/05/2007 (11:26 pm) Comment 8 comments

Here's a fun exercise for those of you who like to blog here on GG. Go to your account page, then browse the resources you've posted. Most of them will likely be blogs. It's like a very weird sort ...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 11/17/2007 (9:13 am) Comment 11 comments

Balls To me, part time indie development always feels like juggling. Trying to juggle work commitments with your indie life can be a very difficult thing. [center][image]http://images.wikia.com/...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 09/21/2007 (5:11 pm) Comment 31 comments

Wow, is it that time again? Yes, summers almost over, end of this month its back to work for me (bah). So I thought I'd do a quick update. FBX Importer Didnt get much time to look at ...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 09/04/2007 (11:42 pm) Comment 2 comments

Ok, its a blatant ad to get us started off. Sorry, should go in the help wanted place, but frankly thats a bit too noisy and I want to find someone :) http://data.bolton.ac.uk/personnel/hr/personne...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 08/27/2007 (7:00 pm) Comment 21 comments

I dont know about you, but I've all but stopped watching TV. Up until recently, the TV was the main form of entertainment in many households. But recently I've noticed that I spend far more of my l...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 08/14/2007 (9:22 pm) Comment 5 comments

I just got back from the educational day at the Develop conference in Brighton (england, uk). It was a bit of a weird day, but I wanted to post some info that I thought was interesting to GG's communi...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/25/2007 (4:44 pm) Comment 4 comments

Art pipeline update Greetings. Ok, so more stuff on the Art pipeline. This week I spent time mulling over how various DCC apps export differently to FBX format. It seems there really is...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/16/2007 (9:56 am) Comment 6 comments

I know, we all do it. We all feel lazy sometimes. I know I do. I recently thought about how a whole community relies on GG to develop technology for them. I mean, who hasnt sat back and thought "...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/10/2007 (6:19 pm) Comment 18 comments

Oh man, this FBX SDK is cryptic at times. There are a billion ways to get whatever data it is you want and a whole slew of "mapping" and "reference" modes. I'm slowly sifting through it, essential...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 07/07/2007 (3:14 pm) Comment 6 comments

What a strange week. Anyway, yes, progress on the art pipeline I talked about in a previous blog entry. So, the basic idea so far, is to load a bunch of data from whatever DCC (art) package you...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 06/29/2007 (8:26 pm) Comment 8 comments

Last weekend I spent a few hours messing with one of my old projects while the Game in a Day was on. This project is somewhat strange, in that I'm doing it for an event called "Game City" in Notti...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 06/23/2007 (1:01 pm) Comment 3 comments

If you look at the current art pipeline for torque, you can see that there are some issues in terms of usability and process that could do with getting some attention. The main problems as I see it...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 06/19/2007 (4:56 pm) Comment 17 comments

Sorry for the bad pun, but I thought this might be semi interesting. There was recently a lot of bruhaha about Sony's apparent use of imagery from Manchester Cathedral in the game "Resistance: Fall...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 06/11/2007 (4:57 pm) Comment 46 comments

Oh man, has it been that long since my last blog? We're heading into the summer months now, which is a damn good thing for me, because I'm completely beat. I recently this week finished up a cont...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 05/11/2007 (2:15 pm) Comment 15 comments

Man, I'm really kicking myself. I didnt come to GDC this time around and I'm starting to feel left out a bit. Drew is posting a bunch of interesting reading and it feels like I really want to be there...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 03/09/2007 (1:54 pm) Comment 14 comments

For those of you in the UK, specifically in the North West, if you listen to BBC Radio Manchester breakfast programming tommorow morning (from about 7am), you'll hear my dulcet tones talking about a p...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 02/21/2007 (8:44 pm) Comment 5 comments

I got back from Casual Connect conference in Amsterdam on saturday last week (and proceeded to become ill for a week, but thats another story). I wanted to write up a quick peice on the conference,...

Author Phil Carlisle Date 02/16/2007 (3:25 pm) Comment 16 comments