Today for my game development related time I sat down with my sketchbook and a bunch of game soundtracks and tried to come up with some character designs for my long term project.

Right now I have basically solid ideas for three of the main protagonists and several of the minor protagonists, but mos…

Today for my "productive" personal time I decided to try to get PyGame and PyOpenGL working again. Still no good. Maybe after the next major Python release stablizes newer, happier versions will be released. Or maybe I'll break down and rebuild the entire mess from the sources. That was moderately …

Fixed the auto-solver bug on dodecahellspawn. Hopefully.

I think I'll shelve it for about a week, so I'll have a semi-fresh look on the code. Hopefully then I can figure out why the mouse rotation code is borked.

Well, I accepted the new job thing. There are still some details to be worked out, but I should be starting soon, with the associated drop in free time. On the plus side, I'm wrapping up my other work, and it doesn't look like there won't be much, if any, overlap, so I won't be doing double hours a…

Dodecahellspawn has been uploaded as a GDS entry. I'll try to keep the GDS version approximately current with the current version on my computer. (Except for little details like the reduced texture detail for the GDS version.)

One more strange fact about me: mouse gestures give me sour tummy. Don't ask me how; I have no clue. I also can get sour tummy playing certain 3d games. I first noticed this with the original Unreal and Ultima: Ascension. Some more recent games don't give me much trouble. Others I can't play for mo…

The actual game part of dodecahellspawn is pretty much in place. As the screenshot shows, it's possible to nicely swiss-cheese the faces now.

One of the details that's faked is that while you can see the individual pieces rotate when you do a rotation instruction, the model itself doesn't store the…

Well I pretty much finished my experiments in storing Quaternions as (R, u, theta) instead of (w, x, y, z). Basically it makes some operations a lot easier, such as exponentation, and some operations, like quaternion multiplication, pissing annoying to the point I would translate it back into (w, x…

The current incarnation of dodecahellspawn fakes lighting with texture blending. A textured quad is billboarded centered at the middle of the dedecahedron. The visual defect I mentioned before was the result of the quad inconsistently being drawn on top of pieces. Before, all the pieces and the qua…

Well, I spent entirely too much time working on purely aesthetic improvements for dodecahellspawn today. Tweaking textures, etc. On the down side, practically no progress has been made on gameplay. On the plus side, it's starting to look pretty much how I want it to, and some of the changes I've m…