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Misinformed Cognoscenti: January 2011

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Sunday, January 16, 2011. How I Will Profit from Your Ideas. This evening, I would like to have your attention to address a recently raised concern. I will follow by defaming my opponent's character thereby implying that his arguments, regardless of their content, do not hold. Second, I will reformulate my opponent's pro...

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: July 2012

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Friday, July 6, 2012. Toys, Tools and Meta-Tools. The biggest giants in the history of ideas gave us nothing. In the context of the game industry, I advocate that engineers should create engines and authoring tools, not content or features. Indeed, my most lasting legacies have been engines and tools. Experimental physic...

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: August 2012

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Reading code is bad. Reading code is bad. I'll come back to this. What constitutes meaningful order? Say you have a bunch of modules you want to start. Some modules rely on others, so the relied-upon modules must start before the reliant modules. A seductive but improper analogy. The answer is...

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: April 2012

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Monday, April 16, 2012. How to delete an object with multiple inheritance. What happens when you delete an object? Here's a list that most C programmers would think of, immediately:. Invoke the destructor for the object. Invoke the destructor for object's base class (et cetera up the inheritance chain). Casting an object...

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: December 2010

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Friday, December 10, 2010. Not That Kind of Doctor - Why I left academia for the game industry. One of the most inspiring and memorable days in my career started with a scary email. Recently, everybody on my team received an appointment entitled "Mandatory Team Meeting". As I sat down I noticed that one end of the room h...

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: March 2010

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Monday, March 29, 2010. Dynamic bandwidth detection and response for online games. And the United State Patent and Trademark Office. Dr Michael J. Gourlay. Links to this post. Labels: Dynamic bandwidth detection. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Dynamic bandwidth detection and response for onlin. Dr Michael J. Gourlay.

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: December 2011

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Saturday, December 17, 2011. COM, the Component Object Model. Has essentially 3 aspects:. What do these aspects have in common? Why were these unrelated features ever combined? To share object behaviors. That treat RTTI and lifetime management differently. For example, C has dynamic cast. Why not just use shared ptr.

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: February 2010

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Fluid Simulation for Video Games. Intel posted the 7th article in a series I wrote about fluid simulation for video games:. Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 1 - Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. Fluid Simulation for Video games: part 2 - Fluid Simulation Techniques. Links to this post.

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Misinformed Cognoscenti: May 2011

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For game programmers who crave in-depth discussions of esoteric aspects of game programming. Speculate, learn and discuss what others have tried, try new ideas and evaluate alternatives. Monday, May 30, 2011. Power and flexibility are bad: FranTk game development. I'm working on a project I named FranTk that I claim gives designers more power and flexibility. The dirty secret is, FranTk give them less. Power and flexibility - and that's better. FranTk, in contrast, removes power:. A pilot would rather fl...