Lately I've been sprucing up my tab control in order to turn it into a code resource. The main thing I've been doing is adding support for custom bitmaps to it, something it didn't have before. So...

Author Geom Date 11/28/2007 (9:50 pm) Comment 8 comments

I am pushing the Orcs vs. Martians Beta1 out the door today. w00t! Finally. I'm not sure why I'm calling this the Beta1. Wait, I know -...

Author Geom Date 11/10/2007 (8:09 pm) Comment 14 comments

It's been a while since I've posted about Orcs vs. Martians, and I've got something exciting nearly working, so I figure it's time for an update. The past six months I've worked on a little of almo...

Author Geom Date 07/10/2007 (8:11 pm) Comment 25 comments

http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/58091/12158 I mentioned I had been experimenting with adding billboards to DTS shapes, programmatically. This is the idea where your game code...

Author Geom Date 05/30/2007 (7:23 pm) Comment 16 comments

I've run into an interesting problem while developing Orcs vs. Martians. I need to recolor my RTS units and buildings, so that they show the color of the player that owns them. But, Torque doesn't ...

Author Geom Date 02/13/2007 (5:09 pm) Comment 14 comments

I'm happy to say, Orcs vs. Martians has gone alpha. For the alpha release, all the main gameplay features are either working or mostly-working. All the building types are in, the unit types are in, ...

Author Geom Date 01/24/2007 (1:12 pm) Comment 13 comments

Orcs vs. Martians is finally starting to feel like a real game. Not yet a game that anyone would want to buy :) But hey, at least it feels like a game. OvM now recognizes when somebody has...

Author Geom Date 09/13/2006 (8:02 pm) Comment 14 comments

Lately I've been working on generating random maps for Orcs vs. Martians. It's been pretty fun since it's all very visual work. I owe Derek Adams a beer for [url=http://www.garagegames.com/...

Author Geom Date 04/17/2006 (4:33 pm) Comment 6 comments

Here's some progress on the RTS I've been working on. All models and textures are just stand-ins at the moment. I'm focusing more on functional behavior before I worry about the art too much. E...

Author Geom Date 03/20/2006 (5:19 pm) Comment 20 comments

I started work on a simple, casual RTS game about 3 months ago. So far, development of this game has been immense fun. Already the GUI works, players can harvest resources, build new bases, and the ...

Author Geom Date 02/09/2006 (10:12 pm) Comment 7 comments