Posts Tagged ‘gamedev’

NVIDIA Gamefest Presentation Slides Now Online

Pygame 1.8.1 released

Beginning Game Programming

Here is a pack of tutorials to help programmers start out in game programming. These tutorials use C++ and SDL.

Link: game programming tutorials.

Ca3D 8.08 – OpenGL 3D Graphics Engine

Bullet 2.70 Physics SDK Released

Hardware of the Casual Gamer

Unity3D has publihed the result of their hardware survey. Unity3D targets the casual gamer and here are some pictures about what is graphics card of the casual gamer:

Shark 3D v5.3

World Machine 2: Next-Gen Terrain Modeling

World Machine 2 is a complete terrain generation solution for artists, game developers, visual effects studios and other visualization professionals.

Download the Basic Edition (free) HERE.

John Carmack Loves its iPhone

John Carmack loves his iPhone and wants to make a game for that device that would be a graphical tour de force (I like this kind of french expressions in english sentences). I guess, given the limited hardware features of the iPhone, Carmack likes this kind of challenge. So let’s prepare for the next accelerometer-controlled Doom-like…

Read more HERE, HERE and HERE.

Related links:
- Carmack says iPhone is “more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined”

NVIDIA Scene Graph (NVSG) 4.0.6.0.7 Update

Unity 2.1

Unreal Engine 4 for Next-Gen Consoles

DirectX 9 to DirectX 11, where did 10 go?

Here is an analysis, by a game developer called Susheel, of the new things that DirectX 11 will bring.

Read the complete analysis HERE.

What is really interesting to see is the emergence of what Microsoft terms as the Compute Shader, no doubt a marketing speak for GPGPU which they claim will allow the GPU, with it’s awesome power to be used for more than just graphics, which smells like CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) to me.
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Issues like multi-threaded rendering/resource handling are things that were long time coming and yes, it’s a good thing we will finally see them in the newer version. It just makes my job as a game developer a whole lot easier. Most details on Shader Model 5.0 are pretty sketchy, so I won’t go into things like shader length and function recursion. However, I hope such issues are addressed satisfactorily in the newer shader model.
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Microsoft is still fixated on releasing version 11 only for Vista, so don’t expect your XP machines to ever run DirectX 11 even if you buy brand new hardware.

OpenGL Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch October 2008

Big Nerd Ranch announces the October 2008 session of OpenGL Bootcamp. This intensive 5-day training course will arm you with the knowledge to make your 2D and 3D visualizations fly! As problem sets explode in complexity, radical gains in performance have resulted from moving traditional graphics processing from the CPU to graphics hardware. If you are doing any work concerning graphics, then you must know OpenGL and this class is the fastest way to master the ideas and techniques of OpenGL programming. By taking full advantage of hardware acceleration, shaders, blending, textures and video we’ll help you get the most out of your data. Learn how OpenGL works, what functionality it does and does not provide, various optimization methods for both static and dynamic data, and much more. The course will provide libraries and frameworks for abstracting the operating system and allowing the student to focus solely on learning OpenGL.

Read more HERE.

Practical Fluid Dynamics: Part 2

Following up his popular recent article, Neversoft co-founder Mick West explains the technical details – including source code – of creating dynamic fluid systems such as smoke for video games.

Read the part 2 HERE.