I'm quite possibly the last person on earth to notice this, but damn, anisotropic filtering makes things look much nicer. I usually leave it off, because it tends to hurt the framerate in most games a bit, but I was playing around with render states today and I noticed it makes my textures look abo…

Well, some people (*ahem*Moe) seem to think that I have disappeared/died, so I thought I'd take it upon myself to reassure them that I am, in fact, not dead. I was going to say "I'm really really busy", but that's not really true, since I'm pretty much the laziest person ever. But, its fair to sa…

So, I recently came across an old TV-tuner card that had been disowned, and after spending a few hours fiddling with it I finally got it to work. Anyway, I decided I'd turn my old athlon box into a MythTV setup since I haven't really found anything else to do with it. It's actually been going prett…

So I've been working on my map editor recently, which I've been coding in C#. So far it's been going pretty well, C# is a pretty nice language to work in. One of the things I really like about it is that file organization is a lot nicer -- no more dealing with header files and circular dependencies…

(I originally posted this as a response to a thread on the gamedev.net forums, but I thought it was worthy of a journal entry; so I patched it up a bit and I'm reposting it here)

When you go to the store to buy a game, you're expecting to buy a tangible product -- the game cds, and maybe the cdkey t…

Oh yeah, I forgot to add it, but here are some screenshots of the game I'm working on right now in my free time:

Imageness #1
Imageness #2

They're actually pretty old screenshots of pretty boring stuff, but I'm too lazy to upload any new ones. Anyway, something or other? Yes indeed!

The Senshi. THE MAN AND THE LEGEND. Who is he?

Some say he is 10 stories tall. His adventure are legendary. Once, he killed a fly using only a fly swatter and a wall. Another time, he saved a bus full of terrorists from children. Or maybe he saved a bus full of children from terrorists. I don't kno…