Monthly Archive for January, 2008

GDCA 2008 Nominees

The Game Developers Choice Awards 2008 nominees have been announced and Portal and BioShock are leading the pack with 5 nominations. Mass Effect and Call of Duty 4 gets 4 nominations.

What a year! This is going to be hard to decide! Just for the heck of it I’ll go with 3 predictions:

  1. Best Writing goes to Portal
  2. Best Game Design will also go to Portal
  3. Innovation Award might go to Portal

What are your predictions?

The GDCA, presented by the IGDA, is a peer-based, open nomination awards program where honours are given by developers to developers. The awards will be handed out at the Game Developers Conference, February 20th

Child’s Play 2007

It’s my 3rd year donating to Child’s Play and I’m so proud being part of something as great as that. I think that every gamer that donated to Child’s Play 2007 should add this to their GamerScore.

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Progress Report 2008-01-01

Happy new year everyone! We only live once, live life to the fullest in 2008! May all your dreams comes true!

Changes:

  • Upgraded to Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition.
  • HexEngine: Some cleanup in CMap. Testing the step by step loading had introduced some crap
  • Secret Prophecy: Dialog box! I take a string, split it to fit the size of the dialog box and manage word-wrapping.
  • Secret Prophecy: Dialog boxes now manage carriage return.
  • Secret Prophecy: Dialog boxes styles. Can use the default style or specify a callback where you’ll style your dialogs
  • Secret Prophecy: Dialog boxes types. You can chose for your text to scroll on one page or your text to be presented on multiple pages.
  • Secret Prophecy: I now have a data structure that allow me to manage sequence of events per maps.

For example: Load the map, when the map is loaded, the player can’t move and an NPC walks towards him. The NPC finishing is walk, fires another event that launch a dialog, telling the player something. When the player finish reading the dialog, the NPC then walks back to where he was, the player can now move.

Challenge 200:

For this progress report : 30h
YTD : 180h / 200h

I’m almost at the finish line for the Challenge 200. The challenge ends 2008-01-31. Only 31 days left and 20h to go, fortunately everything is on tracks and going according to plan. In the next 31 days, I’ll be creating a small chapter for Secret Prophecy. This is going to be fun!