Today I presented at the AltDevBlogADay.com online conference with the short 15min talk titled “Blue Screen Of Death”. I tried to quickly cover some useful information about testing and what stuff you should think of coding for your game. 15 min isn’t nearly enough to get you going, but it’s enough to get a lot of ideas flowing through your head. Slides Available Here.
I just finished my post mortem commentary and screenshots from Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension.
So you have a bunch of utility code laying around, and you think its worth putting out there for the world to see? Lots of people do it, and there are a lot of really commonly used libraries out there that you may already be using. But there is still a lot that can go wrong when you release code.
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It happens all the time. You go and read review about the newest game of the season only to find out that “it’s a shitty console port”. What happened? Probably a lot of things, but the one I want to discuss today is the controls. Elitists claim you can’t play an FPS on a console. They claim that you need inverted controls on your joystick. They claim that lightguns are the only way to play an FPS. They claim that platformers are better on the console. Again, what’s happening?
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I’ve just finished working on 2 games for Nintendo, and boy does their API need a good reworking. What makes it so bad? For the most part it all boils down to Nintendo requiring each game to re-implement core functionality for the console. Any reasonable computing platform should be hiding as much from the application programmer as reasonably possible. Should my application really care what else has to go on behind the scenes? no.
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With my next game coming out, I figured I should finish the Jak & Daxter post mortem I was working on. Now I can get to writing one for Phineas And Ferb.
Joystiq reports on my latest game! Enjoy the antics of the TV show on the Wii and PS3 platforms. No spoilers, but it has tie-ins to the movie, and fills in some of the adventures the gang goes on while dimension hopping.
Well, I’ve been making horrifically slow progress on my personal projects. But, what progress I have made seemed kinda boring as plain old screen shots. So I went hunting for a good application like FRAPS to use to record my videos. After stumbling across This Post about glc. I figured I’d give it a shot.
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After some feedback on this, I cleaned up the code, added some comments, and fixed a couple errors. I now also have a SDL compatible sample usage.
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