Playwitter » Alex J. Champandard http://playwitter.com Follow the games industry on Twitter Sun, 02 May 2010 08:54:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 AiGameDev: @ivanassen I’ve not kept up-to-date with modern graphics, as you can obviously tell :-) I may need a different approach then! http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13199768198 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13199768198#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 17:32:43 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13199768198 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13199768198/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: Apparently MSAA is only performed at the edges of polygons, and not on texel edges for textures without filtering. http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13196176518 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13196176518#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 16:16:43 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13196176518 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13196176518/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @ivanassen If anything, it shows that initiatives like Steam have enough value as an ecosystem for companies, publishers and developers. http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193290152 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193290152#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:18:52 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193290152 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193290152/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @ivanassen The number of PCs is not going to diminish, but the *industry* around them is going to become a commodity. Good for PC gaming! http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193122099 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193122099#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:15:34 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193122099 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13193122099/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @CypherSignal Less awesome is the installation of Games for Windows Live that comes with it… Get off my HD! http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13189963427 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13189963427#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 14:11:24 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13189963427 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13189963427/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: Created a Facebook event for the first time. Shame they’re not visible publicly! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115107981856386 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13187490048 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13187490048#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 13:15:37 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13187490048 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13187490048/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @v00d00m4n If you same some videos of gameplay please send them along! Hardware budgets increase the challenge, but it’s not usually that. http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13149116810 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13149116810#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:34:03 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13149116810 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13149116810/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @v00d00m4n It’s a bit of a loaded question isn’t it? ;-) I haven’t played the game yet unfortunately… http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13145136273 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13145136273#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:59:47 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13145136273 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13145136273/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: And yes, we did sell out and had a waiting list… But we got very lucky (short notice) with a bigger amphitheatre! http://j.mp/dqOvlw http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144440781 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144440781#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:43:51 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144440781 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144440781/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: The full schedule for Paris Game AI 2010 is now online: http://gameaiconf.com/program.php See the new video and the timetable. #AIGD10 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144288329 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144288329#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:40:18 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144288329 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13144288329/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @aDevilInMe I found out you can easily move the buttons on the windows. Quite cool, but a terrible default option IMHO! http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121604886 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121604886#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:24:05 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121604886 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121604886/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: RT @LukeD: The Paris Game AI Conf. 2010 looks alright if you’re into that sort of thing, especially for an indie event. #AIGD10 :P http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121395412 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121395412#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:17:27 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121395412 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13121395412/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: Apparently @MikkoMononen *thinks* in curves, bouncy lines, and voxels. http://j.mp/dscY1k That explains why he makes this stuff look easy! http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13119396510 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13119396510#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:09:43 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13119396510 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13119396510/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: Yay, Ubuntu 10.04 is out. Going to adopt early this time, but in a Virtual Machine! :-) http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13089932501 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13089932501#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:11:02 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13089932501 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13089932501/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: Overheard in the #AIGD HQ: “I don’t care if there are strippers in the teaser video if it sells more conference tickets!” http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13087392261 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13087392261#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:14:27 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13087392261 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13087392261/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @MikkoMononen It’s a good sign then, we’ve had dotted and dashed lines for quite a while now! :-) http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13080616358 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13080616358#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:37:12 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13080616358 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13080616358/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: I have to admit, using quadratic Bezier curves instead of lines adds a certain “Je Ne Sais Quoi” to our debug visualization! :-) http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13074534250 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13074534250#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:28:29 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13074534250 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13074534250/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @bnastic What I meant is that the IDE you find in Linux just can’t compare to MSVC++ — years off the pace IMHO. http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061673119 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061673119#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:36:38 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061673119 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061673119/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @bnastic GCC is great, though generating warnings is more of a job for a builder VM and not a Desktop setup. Looking forward to LLVM more! http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061656482 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061656482#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:36:04 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061656482 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061656482/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: I’m trying the latest Eclipse. Now I’ve got SCons configured as external script there’s not much room left for #CDT to mess up builds! http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061187016 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061187016#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:20:27 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061187016 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061187016/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: The next Ubuntu is out today apparently and I hadn’t even realized! Been using it for pretty much everything except serious programming… http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061111265 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061111265#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:17:52 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061111265 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13061111265/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: Interesting read considering discussions this morning. RT @Blurst Raptor Safari HD development is halting. http://blur.st/raptorocalypse http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13029724129 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13029724129#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:38:09 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13029724129 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13029724129/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @markwez scoped_vector would be a better name, but I found out Boost calls it a ptr_vector. Self-destroying vector of pointers. http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13022409703 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13022409703#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:57:09 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13022409703 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13022409703/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @aDevilInMe Yes, that’s pretty much it. They store void* pointers to prevent template bloat? http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13015296098 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13015296098#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:23:37 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13015296098 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13015296098/feed/ 0 AiGameDev: @bjoernknafla Do they have an official name for the class I described in their so-called C++11 standard? :-) http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13011010820 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13011010820#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:59:55 +0000 Alex J. Champandard http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13011010820 http://twitter.com/AiGameDev/statuses/13011010820/feed/ 0