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Entries for July, 2009

Not Quite What I Expected

After some time playing with Agar (the only documentation being the API and a wiki full of stubs) I’m not sure any more if we will get on. Don’t get me wrong, it seems like a fully-functional library, but its idiosyncrasies don’t mesh with my own. It has a very C-heavy syntax with raw pointers [...]

Long Term Ideas

I’ve been following the development of a project from UK indie game company Introversion. The project has been long running (two years and counting) and relies heavily on procedurally-generated content, that is, content created by an algorithm rather than an artist. The terrain, roads, blocks, buildings, even the internal building structure, lift space, staircases, and [...]

The start of something new

So, this is going to be a new blog. It’s not going to be a personal journal documenting an inner monolouge but that sort of stuff may well bleed through. No, this should stick to technical discussion slash rant, with a heavy smattering of programming projects I feel like doing in my spare time. So, [...]