Last weekend was GID23. Gary Preston and I teamed up again to produce a sequel to the old Teaminator game from GID 3.5, called Teaminator: Brew Isles. As a base we used a heavily modified TGE 1.5 c...

Author Tom Bampton Date 08/20/2007 (3:06 am) Comment 6 comments

Lua is a great little language. It's small and simple, yet powerful and flexible when you know how to use it. Embedding a Lua interpreter into an arbitrary application is easy, if requiring a little c...

Author Tom Bampton Date 07/25/2007 (7:19 pm) Comment 13 comments

In a http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/22864/9877 I ranted about Need for Speed: Most Wanted. At the time, I vowed never to play that game again. I also vowed never to buy ano...

Author Tom Bampton Date 06/11/2007 (1:38 am) Comment 8 comments

The Problem This is the box. Within the box are all your preconceived ideas. Unfortunately, the box is also used by dog o...

Author Tom Bampton Date 11/18/2006 (6:44 pm) Comment 11 comments

When we were originally working on concepts for Alive and Ticking, Nauris sketched up some concepts for critters. After getting the A-Star code running, I threw together some simple AI using some past...

Author Tom Bampton Date 11/03/2006 (8:45 am) Comment 12 comments

As some may know, I maintain a "useless todo list." This list includes all the mostly useless things I intend to do someday, maybe. The problem with the useless todo list is that whenever I end up act...

Author Tom Bampton Date 10/28/2006 (9:36 am) Comment 9 comments

It's been a while since the last .plan on Alive and Ticking. Many thousand lines of code and quite a lot of art later, we're finally getting really close to beta. I had hoped to get it to beta by IGC,...

Author Tom Bampton Date 10/02/2006 (6:31 pm) Comment 8 comments

There's been some discussion for a while about internal names. They were originally implemented in TGB to make GUI code a little easier to write ... but findObjectByInternalName() is long and irritati...

Author Tom Bampton Date 09/08/2006 (12:03 am) Comment 24 comments

Learning C# is one thing that I've been putting of for a long time. The only reason for that was I haven't needed it and I knew I could pick it up really quickly. After finally getting some code wo...

Author Tom Bampton Date 08/31/2006 (11:50 am) Comment 29 comments

So far, this week has been filled with debugging hell whic...

Author Tom Bampton Date 08/17/2006 (1:39 am) Comment 13 comments

When I look back over some of the things I've done with Torque over the years, the overwhelming theme is that I am totally insane. There is method to my madness, but there is often extreme madn...

Author Tom Bampton Date 08/03/2006 (11:49 am) Comment 9 comments

Torque 1.4 has got an incredible amount of useful code, and a lot of it is not obvious. This blog is a handful of handy tips on some of the less well known aspects of Torque, and some of the more well...

Author Tom Bampton Date 07/27/2006 (6:19 am) Comment 22 comments

A couple of ways to tell if your game is fun 1: You take the latest build to a friend's house expecting to do a quick 10 minute demo to show off, and you end up playing it for an hour becaus...

Author Tom Bampton Date 06/16/2006 (9:21 pm) Comment 10 comments

If you read my http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/22864/10364, you'd have seen this screenshot: Since it was a p...

Author Tom Bampton Date 05/02/2006 (5:27 am) Comment 15 comments

Last GID I decided to make a 3D BomberMan clone. After the GID, it looked like this: The level was built automatically from a te...

Author Tom Bampton Date 04/29/2006 (10:00 pm) Comment 5 comments

It's been a while since I've actually taken part in a GID so this weekend I thought I'd go a little bit mad. Unfortunately, I was out all day Saturday so I only had Sunday to work on it. I've been ...

Author Tom Bampton Date 04/10/2006 (8:29 am) Comment 13 comments

Here we have a multiplayer game of SunBurn. First, the host: And now, the client: [image]http://private.tinyirc.net/sbnet/sbMul...

Author Tom Bampton Date 03/07/2006 (9:07 am) Comment 5 comments

I am not usually one to blog on the ins and outs of game development. I prefer to leave that stuff to the likes of Jeff Tunnell. He always does it so much better then I ever could. I am busy as hel...

Author Tom Bampton Date 02/23/2006 (1:49 am) Comment 17 comments

I don't usually like to post two .plans in fairly quick succession, but continuing on from http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/22864/9730 ... [image]http://private.tinyirc.net/sb...

Author Tom Bampton Date 02/10/2006 (12:18 am) Comment 2 comments

I've been wanting to post this for a few days now. First, a picture ... The Lobby No, I'm not yakkig on about TinyIRC again. T...

Author Tom Bampton Date 02/08/2006 (3:51 pm) Comment 8 comments