What is Component Based Design? Component based engine design was originally pioneered in order to avoid annoying class hierarchies that inheritance introduces. The idea is to package all functionality of game objects into separate objects. A single game object is just a collection of the components, as so the components of a game object define Continue Reading →
One of my favorite features of C++ is the ability for constructors to run code. This allows for the creation of some interesting objects whose sole purpose is only to run a little bit of code. Here is an example:
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#define SAY_WORD( WORD ) \ WORD##WordSayer( #WORD ); struct WordSayer { WordSayer( const char *word ) { printf( "%s", word ); } } |
Using this SAY_WORD macro is quite easy. It can be placed at global scope Continue Reading →
Personal Update It has been some time since I have tended to my personal blog, so I feel like I’m coming back to visit my neglected pet as a young child. That sounds sort of strange, but I do feel a little bit of shame in procrastinating for so long! I have so many things Continue Reading →
Introduction During the previous article in this Custom Physics Engine series we talked about impulse resolution. Though understanding the mathematics and physics presented there are important, not much could be put into practice without both collision detection and manifold generation. Collision detection is a pretty widely documented area, and so I won’t go into too Continue Reading →
Personal Update Beyond C++ reflection I’ve taken a huge liking to physics programming for games. Reflection in C++ is a largely “solved” area of study. Though resources on the internet may be few and far between for creating custom introspection, people that know how to create such systems have explored much of what is to Continue Reading →
Thanks to a guy named Patrick Wyatt and his nifty open source base C++ project, I’ve learned a couple new tricks. The one I’d like to share in this post is a great productivity booster. I myself am a very forgetful person, and need to constantly write myself notes in order to remember anything. Wouldn’t Continue Reading →
I recently had to read in a text file in order to draw some geometry on screen. Take a quick look at the text file: Lets assume for some reason we need to parse this text file and grab the float values from within. This isn’t a very difficult thing to do, it’s really Continue Reading →
Wicked Snake and Volgarr promotion Art by Kris Durschmidt This article dedicates itself to sharing details about the most exciting game to release within the past DECADE. I’m a a gigantic fan of both SNES and Sega Genesis games. I’ve fallen on love with some Nintendo 64 games as well, but nothing really beats my Continue Reading →
I’ve spent quite a bit of time writing a fairly long article over at a website I frequent TeamLiquid. Now it’s time to share the article in finished form here for all to see! The article is called Game Programming Primer, and here’s an excerpt from the introduction detailing what the article is all about: Hello! Continue Reading →
It’s finally time to do something really interesting; we can set up an automated serialization system without much of a hassle. Ideally we’d like a serialized object to have a custom serialization format like so:
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Object { 1.3 Some String NestedObject { 1 17 } } |
The handling of nested objects will require some form of recursion, but we’ll get to that later. To start, Continue Reading →