Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Rendering, while mostly a sequential process (GPUs are sequential), can be parallelized in a few places, like frustum culling and (in modern APIs such as Vulkan, Metal or DirectX12) creation of command lists. To make this easier, we came up with the concept of Servers. How is this achieved? For Physics, it's a bit more difficult.

Render 52

Render Collision Engine Engineering 52

Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 10, 2014

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let's delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. Gary and I didn't have Puzzle Dependency Charts for Maniac Mansion, and in a lot of ways it really shows. It's Sunday. Let's build one! Let's build one!

Puzzle 147

Puzzle Culling Game Design Game Designer 147

Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 9, 2014

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let’s delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. Gary and I didn’t have Puzzle Dependency Charts for Maniac Mansion, and in a lot of ways it really shows. Let’s build one!

Puzzle 130

Puzzle Culling Game Design Game Designer 130