Finally, Musickness, including the updated color scheme, is through peer review!
Check out the official Xbox Live product page for more information.
Also, here’s a video with the final blue/purple color scheme:
Musickness into peer review
You know, sometimes I didn’t think the day would come. But here it is, my first game that’s actually ready to be released into the wild! Simple, but fun!
This is my first peer review submission to XBox Live Indie Games!
More randomness: Treemap Drilldown
Ok, so I’m still having problems with motivating myself. For that reason, I continue to play with new, random things.
This is a GUI I made this weekend, made to visualize a treemap representation of a game AI decision tree.
Still needs a lot of polishing of course, but it works pretty well for a first version.
Sometimes, you need to do something different
So this weekend I got it in my head that I should render cubes. Lots of them. Since I usually rather make things up as I go and get something working before reading up on a technique, I tried about 10 approaches before ending up with this:
Basically, the algorithm is buffered and overshoots the camera frustum slightly to all sides, making sure that it has time to fill in the blanks before the camera moves too much. There’s still a lot of room to crank up the update frequency before frame rates start dropping, but this is really good enough.
The reason you see blocks remaining after the frustum moves past is that there is an equally lazy cleanup algorithm being run every now and again (about 500ms at this point), and it too is conservative in what it chooses to clean up, just in case the camera would suddenly turn the other way.
Video #2
It’s not quite good yet. It needs some animation transitioning and a bit of tuning here and there (left leg, anyone?) but it’s alright for a first try I’d say.
Video #1
It’s a bit quirky, but it moves!