Videos tagged with Game Programming

Do vertex arrays keep you up at night? Do you have nightmares involving framerates and event loops? If so, this session might have the cure for your condition. Chris Pruett will discuss the game engine that he developed, using it as a case study to explain the common pitfalls and best practices for building graphics-intensive applications. You'll learn how to properly pipeline game and renderin...

The Xbox 360 game platform was released with a great deal of fanfare surrounding its new product design and user interface. The developers saw the need for a tight brand consistency with print, packaging, and product interface, and chose to commission a new typeface family for use throughout the brand. Steve presents the path to the Xbox 360's new look from the type designer's perspective: the ...

An MMORPG project is challenging for any development team, let alone a distributed team of "amateur" volunteers. This talk will explore the internal design of the FOSS MMO project called PlaneShift, and how that design was influenced by the strengths and weaknesses of the team structure and the community. Topics will include server design, network topology, NPC AI and management and p...

Rip any DVD with AnyDVD, MP3 Player Reccos, Game Developers Conference, HD picture frame antenna, Spoof a MAC address, get kicked out of school. Wondercon! 1UP.com's reviews editor Garnett Lee joins us as cohost today... ... and he's got the scoop from the Game Developers Conference '08 (The PC Gaming Alliance was big news, sort of... and where is Sony's Home for the Playstation??? ) Antennas D...

The demonstration of NetBeans 6.0 continues, as Petr Suchomel, Senior Architect in Sun Microsystem's Java & Developer Platform Group, gives a glimpse of the IDE's possibilites when developing mobile games.    

Video games are a product of software and hardware advances. This presentation will feature the works of Ken Kutaragi of Sony as a major figure in the history of the video game. Ken Kutaragi invented key parts of the PlayStation after creating the sound chip for the Nintendo NES. Like others in the Japanese computer industry he is interested in the affective experience of people with technology...

Find out the Flash communication techniques used by Battle Stations, the immensely successful Facebook Game. Presenter: Tianyang, Managing Partner, Tyler Poject

Find out how games should be designed for Facebook and other social networks so that they are sustainable. With examples from the immensely successful Battle Stations Facebook Game. Presenter: Leonard Lin, Managing Partner, Tyler Poject

There's been a lot of discussion lately about putting Ruby to work in a corporate setting. This talk is about Ruby at play; I will evaluate Ruby's potential as a platform for game programming. In addition to looking at a variety of frameworks for integrating graphics (2D and 3D), we'll analyze the architecture of Ruby-based game servers. If you're not into gaming, there will still be plenty of ...

John Carmack discusses a variety of topics in modern game development.