My wife gave birth to little Emma Michaela on 4th May. She weighed in at a reasonable 7lb 2oz and stretched 20.4 inches. She kindly gives me time to send emails and post this blog. Otherwise my time i...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 05/18/2006 (12:36 am) Comment 14 comments

Dusting off old code is fun - it's interesting seeing what I used to write and because my memory is so poor, I really enjoy re-remembering all the great little ideas I had. So I dusted off some old...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 02/04/2006 (2:22 am) Comment 0 comments

A while ago I posted that my motivation for game development was low. Recently my interest has dropped even lower - I've been trying to improve my Java skills/knowledge to help in my career but that's...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 12/18/2005 (1:04 am) Comment 0 comments

It's 8:25, and I can finally sit down with Torque and experiment with an idea I have. This one doesn't need modelers or anything as demanding as that, but it will require some non-FPS features. So ...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 02/09/2005 (1:27 am) Comment 6 comments

I finally found the time to open source my WebSite Framework scripts (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wsframework). Wha? It's basically a bunch of PHP scripts for running a site, which includes news, a CMS like Wiki and simple forums. The code isn't the best I've written but it was a fun experiment and they're certainly usable.

Author Mike Stoddart Date 09/19/2004 (11:44 am) Comment 2 comments

It's amazing how much difference one more person can make when testing an application. I've had someone reporting bugs to me on my 3d Engine List website while he adds contents and uses the forums. If...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 04/16/2004 (11:31 pm) Comment 2 comments

I've been ticking things over on my PHP/mySQL/Apache scripts, in whatever free time I've had. I started a new website, which uses these scripts, and I'm mulling over getting a couple of people to help...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 04/02/2004 (12:42 am) Comment 8 comments

Good, solid, spare time is very rare for me these days. I'm currently working overtime to meet deadlines and build up available holidays so I can take time off at Christmas to see my family in England.

Author Mike Stoddart Date 12/02/2003 (1:33 am) Comment 0 comments

The job offer was signed, sold (at least my soul was!) and delivered back to http://www.navcanada.ca, my future employer. I start the new job on Sept 15th, which is a few weeks away but not really that many!

Author Mike Stoddart Date 07/20/2003 (2:35 am) Comment 8 comments

Lady luck decided she likes me after all and dropped a job offer on my doorstep on Friday lunchtime.

Author Mike Stoddart Date 07/12/2003 (8:04 pm) Comment 2 comments

I got married!

Author Mike Stoddart Date 04/08/2003 (3:22 am) Comment 5 comments

Torque Vehicle Resource I submitted a Vehicle Resource but it hasn't been accepted yet. I have my fingers crossed that I included all of the code. This is my first resource so I'm not sure if I've extracted everything from my project required to use it.

Author Mike Stoddart Date 02/26/2003 (8:54 pm) Comment 1 comments

It's been a while since my last plan. Not much has happened since then. Things have been fairly quiet for me. We had a great Christmas and New Year, and were sorely disappointed when it ended and we had to come home. Ah well, such is life.

Author Mike Stoddart Date 01/13/2003 (7:48 pm) Comment 0 comments

Pixellent Interactive - a continued evolution....

Author Mike Stoddart Date 08/23/2002 (8:33 pm) Comment 0 comments

After a long hard bout of deliberation, Front Room Games has a new identity.

Author Mike Stoddart Date 08/21/2002 (9:41 pm) Comment 2 comments

We had our first online test of the War In Europe prototype. We lost a member but we also gained one. I took four screenshots, which should hopefully be available now.

Author Mike Stoddart Date 08/01/2002 (6:55 pm) Comment 9 comments

We're slowly ticking over on the design phase on War In Europe. We have some good ideas, but the hardest part is trying to finalise them in such a way that the game will be realistic and enjoyable but...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 07/10/2002 (8:44 pm) Comment 0 comments

Things have been pretty quiet recently. With John joining the team and being away on holiday, I had a break from developing the prototype, though I did implement a new feature that I'm keeping under w...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 07/01/2002 (3:19 am) Comment 2 comments

Just a quick update. I've managed to get into contact with the two people who applied for the position of 3D Artist with Front Room Games (man, I must change that company name). I also received an off...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 06/19/2002 (4:46 pm) Comment 2 comments

Another week, another bug. Just kidding. I grabbed a new CVS HEAD copy of the source, and added the code to implement sprinting from the resources. It worked beautifully once I tweaked the values in p...

Author Mike Stoddart Date 06/12/2002 (5:50 pm) Comment 3 comments