As promised, the source code (and runtime) for the old Interior Generator for the top-down version of AVWW has now been released. If you want to read about what it is and what it does, please see the link above — it’s described in great detail. And here is where you can download the source…
I’ll have a full developer diary #11 (no video this week, though) posted in the next day or so. However, first I want to talk about interior floorplan generation. This is something that I’m going to release as an open source example program in a month or two, once it’s fully polished. This past week…
Question from leekster: I was just curios how much of the game is procedurally generated? Is it in the vein of Dwarf Fortress, where all of it is random? I understand monsters can’t be random due to all the animations and textures. But are spells randomly generated? Thanks for your help. Answer from Chris: Well,…
It was just three days ago that I wrote the #9 preview for A Valley Without Wind, and mostly that’s still the best source for the goods on what all is new this time around. However, the big thing we were missing last time was a video, because of a few technical difficulties with the…
We’re transitioning the video creation duties from myself to Erik, and in the process of that we’re having a few technical difficulties that are requiring some updates to his machine and so forth. So that’s delayed the video for our progress report #9, but I wanted to go ahead and do a written update (and…
This video is just a simple lighting test showing off our new way of handling light in AVWW. The older method, using the z buffer, is still available for lower-end graphics cards and computers, but this new model looks way better, and on most computers won’t use that much more CPU/GPU! What We Were Doing:…
This is going to be a three-post day, to hopefully. make up for having neglected the blog for three weeks. In the last post, I talked about the design process for A Valley Without Wind, at least at a high level — that’s a complex topic, so I might write more on that in the…
Keith LaMothe and I are working together on the design and programming of A Valley Without Wind, him with the greater share of programming, me with the greater share of design, though we both do both. This is a bit of a new process for me, despite the fact that I’ve worked with teams on…
So! It’s been less than a week, and a lot has changed. I’ll start by showing the latest footage of the game: The reaction to last week’s video and screens was mostly positive, particularly when folks saw shots reflecting the actual in-game resolution, but there were common concerns about the buildings, the character’s running animation,…
With the massive new 4.0 version of AI War hitting tomorrow, one of the big bullet points from that release is a wholesale platform shift: moving to Unity 3D, away from SlimDX / .NET. In the past, I wrote about why I chose SlimDX, and why I felt it was the best DirectX interface available…
