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Game Artificial Intelligence
About a year ago I coauthored a paper on multiplayer video game Artificial Intelligence as part of one of my grad classes. I wouldn’t feel right with publishing any real substance from the paper without permissions from my two coauthors, both of whom I…
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Why a New Game Engine?
I have shared the dream of Omega Connection with a wide variety of people over the years, from friends to artists to software developers to philanthropists and everything in between. When it comes to coders, and especially game developers, I invariably get asked why…
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Anatomy of an Indie Game Developer
I firmly believe that it holds true 99.99999% of the time that for someone to get into video game development they must love video games, to be truly passionate about them. There are probably a few people out there that fell into the role…
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OC Development Methodology (part 2)
Welcome back! When last we left our super hero (villain) we had looked at the basic requirements for land and denizens in the forms of a generation engine and an Artificial Intelligence Engine, respectively. One major item lacking at this point that is required…
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OC Development Methodology (part 1)
You will find that I blog mostly to get ideas out of my head. Writing tends to be therapeutic for me, a way to hash out ideas or concepts floating around in my head into some sort of concrete form that I can work…
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Introducing Omega Connection
It will take a while to cover all of the concepts and design ideas that are planned to go into Omega Connection and, I imagine, those ideas will evolve and change some over the course of game development, but here’s the elevator pitch… Once…
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A Game Over Three Decades in Design
Once upon a time an impressionable young boy, around the age of 9 or 10, was introduced to the TI 99/4A home computer by his older brother. Aside from the cool computer games, such as Tunnels of Doom, that this brought into both their…