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Status of the Demo

optln — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:57:02 +0000

I added many things to my demo including HDR tonemapping, bloom, motion blur, better terrain textures, better material processing etc. Here’s the video:

Engine’s Current Status

optln — Sat, 14 May 2011 20:52:13 +0000

I added Shadow Mapping, edited the scene with some new models and fixed many bugs. Link of the demo is the same as before. Here’s a video of it running:

Rendekar Engine

optln — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:01:28 +0000

I had enough of stupid schools and want to get a job in the game industry. For that, I started working on a demo that uses Microsoft’s DirectX 10. I’ll use it on my job applications. Since my first choice is Taleworlds(which is the most succesful gaming company in my country), I decided the main theme of the demo would be a medieval village. The demo’s engine currently has some standard features like an FPS camera, terrain rendering based on heightmaps, per-pixel lighting, fogging etc. and some interesting stuff such as a special binary model format(I made a converter from Wavefront’s .obj to my .rms format) and GPU based particle system. Hoping to finish it in a month. Here‘s the current state of it(you need this as well) and a screenshot:

Wu Xing – Progress

optln — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:43:25 +0000

Altough I couldn’t finish it properly, I made some progress on my game. First of all, I changed its name to Wu Xing, since garage.maemo.org doesn’t support project names with less than 4 characters. And I released an alpha version on Maemo Garage. It lacks lighting, sound, particle effects and advanced menus right now. I’m thinking some additional gameplay elements but I’m a bit bored from it and now trying to learn DirectX 10 again. You can try the game if you have an N900:
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Here’s a screenshot from it:

Wu

optln — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:26:27 +0000

Wu is my new casual game. Altough I’m developing it primarily for touch-screen environments, I’m developing a desktop version too. It is basically played by using five traditional Chinese elements on balls that are made from those elements. I got a very simple prototype working as for now. As I make progress, I’ll update this blog about my achievements. I’m hoping it will become a fun and addictive game. Here’s a screenshot for its current state:

You can try the Windows version if you like:
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OBJ Mesh Loader

optln — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:13:41 +0000

I needed an “easy to code for” but useful 3D mesh format for my game and decided on the Wavefront’s OBJ and its material counterpart MTL. It was a bit harder than it looked but I could finish it succesfully. I tested it with .obj’s and .mtl’s that are exported from Milkshape3D and Wings3D and it was succesful. Here it is, use it however you like :
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OO Windows OpenGL Basecode

optln — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:19:30 +0000

Because of some personal issues, I couldn’t work on my projects for a while. And after that, I decided to port what I have accomplished to Windows platform and work from there. There are many reasons for this, but the most important one was that it is difficult to make a game to a platform which doesn’t have a proper emulator. I had to copy my executable to the phone everytime I compiled the code, even for a simple change to test it. So I made a simple Object Oriented framework to use as basecode for my future OpenGL on Windows projects and decided to share it. You can use it any way you want if you think it helps. Here it is:
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I’ll try to port the game to N900, after I finish it.

Team Fortress 2 Characters

optln — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:41:54 +0000

While I was looking some low-poly models for testing my game’s engine’s model loader, I stumbled upon this cool TF2 character models: http://tomtallian.com/pages/tf2.html

This is the result :

If someone wants to try it, I uploaded the binaries. You need an N900 of course:

http://hotfile.com/dl/56567305/eb01cde/Reaper.zip.html

Reaper: Current Progress

optln — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:32:07 +0000

I’m working on the renderer part of the game for about a month. It uses XLib, EGL and OpenGL ES 2.0. I made a touchscreen interface but keys aren’t working for some reason(any help is appreciated if someone is reading this ). I might release the source of it in the following days. I’m thinking of releasing the game from Ovi Store of Nokia but if I believe it doesn’t fit for a commercial release, I may open source it and release it on maemo-extras repository.

Hiya!

optln — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:23:08 +0000

Another first post… I forgot how many blogs I have deleted before this Anyway, this one will be some kind of portfolio for my game programming projects. I’m currently making a 3D shooter named Reaper for Nokia N900′s Maemo platform. So posts mostly be about this for a while.