The making of "Gratuitous Space Battles"

indievision.org — A post-mortem of "Gratuitous Space Battles". A good overview of the process involved with making a large indie game, from finding artists to budgets and lines of code. read more...

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Making a game developer website.

incubatorgames.com — An overview of what went into created the official website for Incubator Games. read more...

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Projected Grid Water

gamerendering.com — A method in which a grid is projected in post-perspective camera space. This gives an even-spaced grid so the detail level of the water is the same over the whole screen. read more...

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Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

gamerendering.com — SSAO is the new technique that most new games just must include because of the hype around it since the computer game Crysis. It’s a technique for creating a rude approximation of ambient occlusion by using the a depth of the rendered scene. This works by comparing the current fragments depth with some random sample depths around it to see if the current depth is occluded or not. The current fragment is occluded if the sample is closer to the eye than the current fragment. Although it sounds very bad to do so, in practice it does work beyond all expectations. read more...

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Normal Mapped Billboards

gamerendering.com — This technique doesn’t actually invent something new. It’s just a combination of normal mapping and billboards to realistically lit particle systems. It has been used successfully in many games to fake volumetric smoke. read more...

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Soft Particles

gamerendering.com — The aim with soft particles is to remove the ugly artifact that appears when the particle quad intersects the scene. There are a lot of different approaches to solve this, some more complicate than others. read more...

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Analysis: Gaming Secrets And Lies

published 5 months, 7 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 5 months, 7 days ago

gamasutra.com — Secrets and hidden treats are part of games' appeal and their lore, and can add depth and authenticity to the experience -- columnist Andrew Vanden Bossche explores ideal implementations, and those less so. read more...

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Jump! The Game

jump-game.de — We want to give you a brief insight of our game project. Jump! is a multiplayer jump'n run game which is currently in alpha state. The game is developed with two of my colleges. The game is set in a cartoony world. You head up in the role of a toony character to beat other players. The gamerules were kept simple to deliver a funny and entertaining gameplay. The matches are redistricted by round time or score, the player with the highest kill count will win at the end of the round. Your gain a kill score by jumping on other players heads. The game based on different modes which contain deathmatch, catch the chicken and get the item. We are constantly updating the game in our spare free time. In further development we aim to implement a version of Capture the Flag and in addition a bombing run mode. Players can collect powerups to gain a huge gameplay advantage to become the hero of the battle. We want invite you to an alpha testing session. If you like to test the game with us or other users you should join the testing session. The playsession starts on Sunday the 13.09.09 at 06 p.m. (GMT + 2:00) until open end. You can check the time of your Country here: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ For example if you stay in England the time where the playsessions starts is at 05 p.m. You can download the game from now on at http://www.jump-game.de Feel free to use this thread or our forums to give us some feedback. Certainly you don’t have to comment this project, but your feedback is very important for us and we like to hear what you think about the game. Don’t be harsh with your critique we are open for your opinion :) Jump! Community forum: http://www.jump-game.de/community/ The Gameserver are 24/7 open. You can also play the game alone but there are maybe no other users on the server and you don’t see the real action of the game ;) Feel free to contact us if you have any more questions about the game or the alpha testing session. We constantly watch the server stats and maybe we meet us earlier: P In this sense we hope to awake your interest. Cheers Team Jump! read more...

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