Tools of the Trade
So, the official Orbus Gameworks blog, Measuring Gameplay, had a post yesterday about some work I’ve done with integrating metrics into GtkRadiant. Something Darius mentioned, but I don’t think he made...
View ArticleTesting Generated Code
Edit: This post was superseded by this one. Basically, I realized that this approach for C++ is way to hard and not worth the effort. So, if you're interested in testing generated code, especially in...
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Shortly after posting this post about using dlls to run generated code to make sure it’s actually generated correctly, I realized that, unfortunately, that approach doesn’t work 90% of the time, and...
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MySQL and Visual Studio
So, I’ve been working a lot with Visual Studio, and although it doesn’t do everything perfectly, I tend to like it. One of the things I tend to like about it is its ability to group together lots of...
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Firefox, Silverlight, Services and ASP.NET Debugging
Edit: If you've been having problems with this, it's because I accidentally missed a step. Firefox will always look for an old process regardless of whether you want to start as a separate profile. To...
View ArticleOn PowerShell
So, I’ve been using PowerShell a whole bunch lately, mostly to write prebuild / postbuild scripts for our product. Now, for most things, a batch file works fine. However, I wanted a few features that...
View ArticleThe Server Conundrum
The next big task at Orbus is to get our systems working with what I call “intermediary” servers: enterprise style message queues and things like that. Basically, they idea is that the game can sit and...
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So, I’ve started development on multiple virtual servers and I’ve found that VMWare actually makes things easier than I thought it would have, at least for the structure I discussed at the end of the...
View ArticleOpen Source
I found it interesting a few weeks back when Warren posted something about not wanting to use open source projects because of fear of legal retribution. I can kind of understand this when using...
View ArticleGame Development Tools
(Note: The whole point of this post is to get you to join the IGDA Tools SIG, but I don’t get to that until below the fold, so I’ve decided to just push it up front here for those of you that don’t...
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