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Starting a Youtube Dev Blog - Post Release

Post the monumental occasion of releasing a Game to XBLIG channel, I have chosen not to abandon my young, and instead attempt to nurture it with you-tube love'n. Two new youtube Blogs are being launched!

Author Will O'Reagan Date 04/15/2011 (11:48 pm) Comment 2 comments

Ape to TX part 2

Decided to do some additional work on the APE engine today, at this point I have multiple versions, its easily customizable, so I updated my SVN with another version.

Author Will O'Reagan Date 03/27/2011 (4:54 pm) Comment 6 comments

Burnout Blog

As is customary, I'm going to post a typical burnout blog griping about the repressiveness of deadlines, and game development gone awry.

Author Will O'Reagan Date 03/16/2011 (2:39 pm) Comment 4 comments

Project Gert:Downlode has entered playtesting

Getting this game published will be a project 3 years in the making, since I started with TX and XNA, I have yet to use my powers for good...

Author Will O'Reagan Date 12/28/2010 (10:37 am) Comment 2 comments

Where is project gert? With TorqueX

I'm currently working on two games with my team, Modern Intrigues. Using TorqueX I will not post videos, because its not time to show off.. as we are missing so much art.. but wait, is this about art, or about an awesome engine!

Author Will O'Reagan Date 11/16/2010 (10:13 pm) Comment 2 comments

Ape engine to TorqueX experiments

Recently I've tried my hand at my first "serious engine port" I have to say, that I succeeded with all my goals, so I thought I would share my results with the community.

Author Will O'Reagan Date 08/19/2010 (9:00 pm) Comment 2 comments

Project Gert Turret and Lighting

Two months into the project, we are showing signs of intelligent life. A lively AI turret, and a strong lighting scheme. TorqueX

Author Will O'Reagan Date 08/07/2010 (5:16 pm) Comment 2 comments

Project G.E.R.T for Xbox Live, using TorqueX

One month down, two to go for project Gert, Thought I would put together a little blog about how the process is going.

Author Will O'Reagan Date 06/28/2010 (8:09 pm) Comment 0 comments

First day of my new game, epic blog in order

Just writing an epic blog, to mark the first day of my torque-x project "Project Gert" working on the XBL version.

Author Will O'Reagan Date 05/20/2010 (5:03 pm) Comment 4 comments

Finished my first indie game! Project G.E.R.T.

Almost two months of work has paid off, with an android game on the market, and my first completed game.

Author Will O'Reagan Date 05/03/2010 (4:38 pm) Comment 8 comments

First indie game... almost done! Mobile Android platform

Well, I've been working hard on my android game for class. Well, the deadline seems to get further and further off, because development seems to be going... well... faster and faster. Maybe because I used torque? (guilty)

Author Will O'Reagan Date 04/18/2010 (2:00 pm) Comment 8 comments

New prototype

Heres the all important link, its a flash 9 game, you may expereince some lag while it loads in the begining. [url=www.modernintrigues.com/content/games/spaceshooter/prototype/SpaceShooter.swf]Space...

Author Will O'Reagan Date 02/29/2008 (2:33 pm) Comment 1 comments

TorqueX brain recovery

This is going to be a fairly in depth / outlandish / personal, so I'm going to cut to the point fairly quickly.. Last year I spent Jan through August learning TorqueX, and XNA. I was attempting to b...

Author Will O'Reagan Date 12/15/2007 (9:56 am) Comment 4 comments

*Free* Sticker, MMI, *Free* Become involved with up and coming developement company

We are offering a http://www.cafepress.com/shopmodern.152061703 To the first 15 people who register at This is a great way to become involved with an up and coming production compan...

Author Will O'Reagan Date 07/19/2007 (11:29 pm) Comment 9 comments

Saving Games in TorqueX, on your 360 or PC

This quick and dirty sample of how to get save game features working on your XBox and PC. First Open a StarterGame, find your game.cs, and make your begin run look like this [code] protected ...

Author Will O'Reagan Date 06/23/2007 (1:22 pm) Comment 0 comments

A new overlay

I think 6 months ago I never would have even thought of something such as an overlay. I guess its a totally new concept to me, coming from an acting/writing background, to create an image that will o...

Author Will O'Reagan Date 06/07/2007 (1:05 am) Comment 3 comments

XNA game game studio express contest

I just submitted my 2nd game for the XNA game studio express contest. Its been a crazy last few days, as i was racing against the timeline. I think I must have debugged about 100 times a day for the...

Author Will O'Reagan Date 02/28/2007 (10:58 pm) Comment 8 comments