Debugging z-machine code
I’ve recently been working on reverse-engineering the parser and game code of an Infocom interactive fiction game. In future posts, I will write more about the findings and the process. In this post, I am…
Porting TADS to the browser
This is one of my most recent projects (at least those that I get around to writing about…). I recently got infatuated again with Interactive Fiction, played through Ballyhoo by Infocom as well as took…
Tokyo VR Arcade
During my first visit to Japan this spring, I took the chance of visiting Bandai Namco’s “VR Zone – Project i can” Virtual Reality test arcade. This a prototype arcade featuring six VR experiences. Note:…
SteamQuest & Kha.Vr
SteamQuest is the demo game for Kha.Vr, the extension to Kha (http://tech.ktxsoftware.com/) that allows the creation of VR games. There will be more information here in the coming days, so check back if you want…
Gear VR Development
After my iPhone ended up looking like this: and my frustration with Apple, iTunes & co. reached a new height, I decided it was time to get a new phone. And since I had been…
Making Games
Game AI: Doom
Last week, as part of the lecture “Game Technology” at TU Darmstadt, I gave a lecture on game AI. My focus in…
Game Impressions
Technobabylon
Technobabylon is an "escape the room" adventure game made by James Dearden a.k.a. Technocrat.
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PongOut
After blogging about the BreakOut/Pong-Crossover before (see blog posts one and two), this post marks the release of the game. PongOut is a crossover between BreakOut and Pong for two players – the two players play pong, but first they have to break down a…
Ludum Dare Postmortem: Space Pioneers
This is a post-mortem of our entry in the 72-hour-jam of Ludum Dare 30, titled “Space Pioneers”. Try the game for yourself – it’s available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android! This post is a summary of how we worked on the game as a group…
Pre-rendered backgrounds in Unity (2/2) – Rendering
In the previous part of this post, we looked at synchronizing the camera settings between Blender and Unity so that they render objects in the same perspective. In this post, we build upon this to result to render the Unity objects into the pre-rendered background.…
Pre-rendered backgrounds in Unity (1/2) – Synchronization
This is the first part of a short series on realizing pre-rendered backgrounds with live-rendered 3D objects in the foreground, that are composited into the image correctly at runtime. Many of my favourite adventure games, including my all-time favourite The Longest Journey as well as…
Self-building Structures
This post is part three of three in the post series on my re-implementation of the GDC talk “The Inner Workings of Fortnite’s Shader Based Procedural Animations”. For the other parts, click here. This shader one is definitely the most involved of the three in the presentation.…
Bounce Effect
This post is part two in the post series on my re-implementation of the GDC talk “The Inner Workings of Fortnite’s Shader Based Procedural Animations”. For the other parts, click here. The second shader implemented is the shaders for bounce effects. The idea is that the…