Game AI Roundup Week #47 2008: 13 Stories, 3 Quotes, 1 Video

published 9 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by Novack 9 days, 21 hours ago

aigamedev.com — Weekends at AiGameDev.com are dedicated to rounding up smart links from the web relating to artificial intelligence and game development. This week, we have a set of interesting media comments on current and upcoming AAA games; also, as always, there are some good articles and blog posts for you to read. Remember, there’s also lots of great content to be found in the forums here! (All you have to do is introduce yourself.) Also don’t forget the Twitter account for random thoughts! read more...

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XNA Society - Starting A Game Editor (WinForms)

xnasociety.com — Game editors are used to make creating a game much easier. This tutorial is going to show you how to start a game editor with a splash screen for use in your XNA game. Tutorial includes project files written in XNA 3.0 and VS2008. read more...

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XNA Society - Basic 2D Collision

xnasociety.com — This sample uses XNA 3.0 and shows how to do rectangle-rectangle, circle-rectangle, and circle-circle collisions with very simplistic and unrealistic physics. read more...

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Game AI Roundup Week #45 2008: 13 Stories, 1 Video, 1 Paper —AiGameDev

published 23 days, 16 hours ago, submitted by Novack 23 days, 18 hours ago

aigamedev.com — Weekends at AiGameDev.com are dedicated to rounding up smart links from the web relating to artificial intelligence and game development. This roundup, we have as much of content, as we did’nt have in weeks: many very good articles and blog posts around the web! Remember, there’s also lots of great content to be found in the forums here! (All you have to do is introduce yourself.) Also don’t forget the Twitter account for random thoughts! read more...

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Using a Pool Memory Structure to Boost Performance

published 26 days, 4 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 26 days, 4 hours ago

ziggyware.com — Matt Bettcher has a new article hosted on Ziggyware focusing on Using a Pool Memory Structure to Boost Performance in your XNA games. This technique is used to prevent excessive garbage collection that can bog your game down. read more...

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Initial impressions on the XNA 3.0 Platformer Starter Kit

published 26 days, 21 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 26 days, 22 hours ago

geekswithblogs.net — Chris Williams has posted his initial impressions on the XNA 3.0 Platformer Starter Kit. It posts that it doesn't come with as much media than say one from GarageGames for their TorqueX product, but does has nice features, and has a great price tag, FREE! read more...

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XNA Series - Game Components

published 27 days, 4 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 27 days, 6 hours ago

johnnygizmo.blogspot.com — JohnyGizmo thought he would talk about a pretty cool class in XNA called GameComponent and its child Class DrawableGameComponent. These classes are made to add components to your game in a modular way. A component is something that needs to update with your game. DrawableGameComponent inherits GameComponent and adds functionality so that the component is also drawn at proper times as well. You could actually re-design our GameObject class as a DrawableGameComponent or at least inherit a class from DrawableGameComponent to give us the added functionality. Now from his reading, it seems that a lot of people think GameComponents are are really aimed at single game objects like a tank, but to add a TankManager class that would deal with the updating and drawing of all the tank objects in our game. But it certainly doesn't hurt to learn the type in an easy way. read more...

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OGRE 1.6.0 Final ('Shoggoth') Released

published 27 days, 2 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 27 days, 6 hours ago

ogre3d.org — Following a period of 'bedding in' as a Release Candidate, we've now released OGRE v1.6 as the new, official stable version for all users. Here's a reminder of the main new feature points in v1.6 over v1.4: * New more powerful script compilers * Geometry shaders in OpenGL * Antialiasing on render textures as well as windows * sRGB gamma correction * Alpha to coverage support * New 'Portal Connected Zone' SceneManager * Parallel-Split Shadow Map support * Improved tangent generation * Skeletal blend masks * New background loading options * Custom memory allocator support read more...

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