Archive for April, 2010

Rapid Prototyping: Tool Investigation

April 13th, 2010

For my thesis, I’ve started to investigate some tools, and how suitable they are for rapid prototyping 2d games. My list currently covers:

2D Boy’s Rapid Prototyping Framework
Cogaen / ACES
Game Editor
Game Maker
PushButton Engine
Torque Game Builder (Torque2d)
3D Packages, used for 2D prototyping (Unreal Development Kit, Unity, Virtools, Quest3D)

Although I’m writing my thesis in German, I guess I’ll find the time and post my resumes here. The good thing is, I don’t have to be that objective on my blog…so stay tuned

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Posted in Rapid Prototyping in Game Development

Tags: Rapid Prototyping Thesis

Duke Nukem Forever – Gameplay Trailer April 2010

April 9th, 2010

Oh it’s so sad, that the Duke won’t come. It had all beloved weapons from Duke Nukem 3D, pimped to good looking 3D graphics. Take a look at the latest gameplay trailer:

I still believe that this game will be shipped…some day. When exactly? When it’s done of course…we all miss you Duke!

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Posted in Misc

Tags: Duke Nukem

Workspace and level management

April 5th, 2010

Level Master 2000 now has the possibility to switch between different workspaces (must lie within the application root though…seems like a flash restriction) and one can now save and load scenes! Before talking a lot, just take a look at the short video I setup:

Next on my todo list is creating undo/redo commands for creating and deleting entities and components. As soon as that’s done, milestone 1 for my thesis is finished!

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Posted in Level Master 2000

Tags: Level Master 2000 PushButton Engine Qt

Starting with thesis…

April 1st, 2010

No joke! I have started to setup my Latex project and have successfully ported my Word table of contents to it. I did have some trouble though, as we got our own style template here at the University, and at the first time compiling it*, I got an error like “GUI framework cannot be initialized”. First I thought this might be, because some package is missing, or rather “WTF”? Googleing a bit, the answer was “This happens when a missing package needs to be installed and the pop-up window cannot be displayed.”
The solution to the problem was, that I had to reconfigure TeXnicCenter, to automatically install missing packages, without ever asking me…somehow sounds “dangerous”, but on the other hand, what can happen?

*: Isn’t that the one and only dream of every programmer: compile your text document in order to be able to see it with all the formatting?