Tag Archives: TheGame

The Game Progress Report #27

Posted on May 13, 2016 by James McParlane

Still tinkering away on the idealised 1D CA physics engine before I expand it up to the two something dimensions of hexagonal space again. Realised that I have not updated this in quite a few months, so here is quite … Continue reading →

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The Game Progress Report #26

Posted on August 10, 2015 by James McParlane

More progress on the CA physics engine. Collisions now seem to be working reliability with a conservation of momentum that is accurate (enough) and visually pleasing. Now experimenting with dispersion and forces. I have a basic orbit working and gas of … Continue reading →

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The Game Progress Report #24

Posted on April 24, 2015 by James McParlane

I’m now starting the 4th and final version of the physics engine… getting the flow right.. The Venn diagram for Efficient, Fun and Realistic is harsh. The Venn diagram of simulation game development pic.twitter.com/VbGgvNS8K7 — James McParlane (@DrMiaow) April 24, … Continue reading →

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The Game Progress Report #23

Posted on October 26, 2014 by James McParlane

My son has ported his Awesome Name Generator Android app to iPhone and iPad and released it onto the iTunes Store. Been back to The Game’s core engine for the last few months on and off. The tutorial engine, which can be … Continue reading →

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The Game Progress Report #22

Posted on July 29, 2014 by James McParlane

We are progressing with the game in our spare time, which has been very little but we are making progress. My son has built an android game that we are publishing to test out all the commerce ‘stuff” we need to … Continue reading →

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Game Engine Ported to OSX

Posted on July 29, 2013 by James McParlane

Over the weekend I ported the game engine to OSX.

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MonoGame OpenGL Has 800×480 Screen During Initialize

Posted on July 13, 2013 by James McParlane

There seems to be a workflow issue at the startup of a MonoGame app in Windows using OpenGL. The solution seems to be to perform your own initialisation on the viewport. The issue is that during Initialize() your app seems convinced … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #2

Posted on May 13, 2012 by James McParlane

Another good weekend of progress. Decided that to document some of the user interface nuances we needed some kind of stop motion capture system. Back in the day when I was more hands-on in UI/UX I had a lot of … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #1

Posted on May 6, 2012 by James McParlane

We have made good progress in our Sunday sessions over the last few weeks. I have resurrected my decades old physics engine. See these videos. (1 , 2, 3) I have been comparing various game development frameworks, at this point MonoGame is looking like … Continue reading →

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The Game

Posted on April 12, 2012 by James McParlane

My son and I have been writing MineCraft mods which had been fun and educational for him, but a little frustrating in the last month. If you have been following the world of Minecraft you will know that there has been a … Continue reading →

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