So guys I have gotten my new book. microsoft XNA game studio 3.0 unleashed. I have to say it is pretty good. It will help me with alot of things that I had no clue on how I was going to do them. I am currently working my way through the book. I am starting on an unofficial game engine of mine which I have ingeniously called game engine v0.01 which will basically be fps game but it will have lots of things like water rendering and particle systems which I can take on with me to other projects. I would really like to have a game up and running which I will be able to put on my site by christmas :D That would be awesome and hopefully it will bring a bit of traffic to my website. I am thinking that my website's main attraction will be the free games I will provide. But first I need to get some free games so I need to start working on that.
Anyway I will update you later tonight depending on how much I have done to my engine!
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
update
Hi guys tommorow is the big day! The day I get my video capture card. I can finally start recording my own video reviews of games! I will have decent content to put on my site. I am going to do lots of different reviews of all the latest games and then let you chat amongst your selves on my forums:D My goal right now is to get atleast 3000 page impressions per day but thats like 6 months down the line. And then who knows? 10,000 page views per day is my goal by the time I start applying for Uni. That would be sweet!
Anyway I got the model I created in blender up and running in my game project. Although I need to find out what a decent view matrix would be for a FPS. I am thinking about getting one for XNA and C# as it will also teach me networking. I think it would be awesome to invite my friends on for a game and they can tell me how to improve it. Also it pretty much tells me all the important stuff that I need like view projection matrix and stuff like that. I am going to try and do all the buildings and guns myself but I will have to get someone to model the characters for me as I am terrible at humans. I haven't really tried but I am still learning and the building and cars and guns will be a challenge as it is. I am getting most of the day off tommorow so I can go and start recording some videos for my website :D
I downloaded microsofts free accounting package and it seems pretty cool Although I will have to learn how to use it in a way that is quite professional. I want to run this website as a mock business. As it will be good to learn how everything works. I also want to make sure that I do-not exceed my maximum £200 mark on investment into the site. I want to make it so that this website pays for itself. right now I have bought the domain name and the video capture card. So I want to pay that off. Then I will allow more investment into the site.
thanks for reading!
Anyway I got the model I created in blender up and running in my game project. Although I need to find out what a decent view matrix would be for a FPS. I am thinking about getting one for XNA and C# as it will also teach me networking. I think it would be awesome to invite my friends on for a game and they can tell me how to improve it. Also it pretty much tells me all the important stuff that I need like view projection matrix and stuff like that. I am going to try and do all the buildings and guns myself but I will have to get someone to model the characters for me as I am terrible at humans. I haven't really tried but I am still learning and the building and cars and guns will be a challenge as it is. I am getting most of the day off tommorow so I can go and start recording some videos for my website :D
I downloaded microsofts free accounting package and it seems pretty cool Although I will have to learn how to use it in a way that is quite professional. I want to run this website as a mock business. As it will be good to learn how everything works. I also want to make sure that I do-not exceed my maximum £200 mark on investment into the site. I want to make it so that this website pays for itself. right now I have bought the domain name and the video capture card. So I want to pay that off. Then I will allow more investment into the site.
thanks for reading!
Update
So guys I ordered a dazzle dvd recorder yesterday and it is going to come tommorow! This will be great as it means I will be able to put my own video reviews of games onto both my site and youtube. This will mean people have a reason to come to my new site as right now it basically doesn't have anything on it. I am hoping that I will be able to complete my first video review by tommorow night and upload it to my site. I also hope that I will be able to get some people to actively visit my new forums which are up and running on my site now! There are only 3 categories but that will change very soon.
Anyway back to game programming. Right now I am going to start work on a sort of FPS which will feature boxes as enemies and rectangles as bosses! It is going to be the next wow-killer I swear. Nah it will be very simple and graphically unappealing but its the technical side of it that will teach me alot! And hopefully if I get most of it coded in I can find a free artist to spice it up a bit. Either that or I will go onto turbosquid.com and just download some free models. This "game" will be in C# and XNA as they are the new loves in my life. I think it will be awesome to complete a game that is mine and not some tutorials or some classic game clone. Although Pong was fun :D This will also be great to show off in computing when I bring in CD's of my game and hopefully get the class to playtest it lol! They would like that if I made it fun enough. A period off school work would be great.
I am hoping I will get the basic terrain and camera up and working tonight so that I have something to work with :D I will also try and get the collision detection working. I am thinking it will be the same as the pong clone I made but I will use 3D things.
Anyway back to game programming. Right now I am going to start work on a sort of FPS which will feature boxes as enemies and rectangles as bosses! It is going to be the next wow-killer I swear. Nah it will be very simple and graphically unappealing but its the technical side of it that will teach me alot! And hopefully if I get most of it coded in I can find a free artist to spice it up a bit. Either that or I will go onto turbosquid.com and just download some free models. This "game" will be in C# and XNA as they are the new loves in my life. I think it will be awesome to complete a game that is mine and not some tutorials or some classic game clone. Although Pong was fun :D This will also be great to show off in computing when I bring in CD's of my game and hopefully get the class to playtest it lol! They would like that if I made it fun enough. A period off school work would be great.
I am hoping I will get the basic terrain and camera up and working tonight so that I have something to work with :D I will also try and get the collision detection working. I am thinking it will be the same as the pong clone I made but I will use 3D things.
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Finally partly completed!
So today I switch all my website to one new design which I have been told is alot nicer than the last one. It makes for a more professional website although it took me hours! to get up and running. Even now I dont think that its all fixed and ready but its time for bed :(. I also shattered my previous page impression record today. Over 450 already and America has yet to come online :D Usually when i go to bed i get around 50-100 more page impressions. So hopefully 500+ by tommorow 8 AM :D. I am also hopefully going to get a video capture card tommorow so once I get my playstation set up in my "office" I will be able to provide all my sites viewers with hopefully enjoyable and informative game reviews which hopefully they will go on to talk about in my forums. I want my new site to be a community of people who come together often to talk about the latest games and movies as well as just being social.
Anyway hopefully I will be able to get my first video review up by tommorow or the day after that. At the very latest by next monday :( But if I give quality game reviews hopefully more people will come back again and again.
Anyway hopefully I will be able to get my first video review up by tommorow or the day after that. At the very latest by next monday :( But if I give quality game reviews hopefully more people will come back again and again.
why???
Why is it that when I switch over from one website layout to the other my website becomes a lot busier than normal? None of the good things are up yet. Its basically an empty shell but its not even midday and I have had nearly 200 impressions already. Granted people might not think that it is alot but my goal is 3 thousand page impressions this month because I am only a couple weeks into this project. Hopefully they will come back when the new website is better and keep coming back to just check out the latest games. But it looks like I am set on getting atleast 3000 page impressions this month. With 800 in the first 6 days I think that I will hopefully hit 4k impressions.
Anyways Right now I am getting the forums up and running. And also I am going to figure out a way to set up the PS3 so that I can easily screen capture gameplay. If I get that up and running it means that when I buy a new game I can easily start reviewing it and let you see what it is like. I think Fifa 10 will be my first video review but thats almost a month away so I have plenty of time to work on my site :D Please check it out at http://www.gamercity.co.uk you might as well everyone else seems to be going on it when it isn't ready.
Anyways Right now I am getting the forums up and running. And also I am going to figure out a way to set up the PS3 so that I can easily screen capture gameplay. If I get that up and running it means that when I buy a new game I can easily start reviewing it and let you see what it is like. I think Fifa 10 will be my first video review but thats almost a month away so I have plenty of time to work on my site :D Please check it out at http://www.gamercity.co.uk you might as well everyone else seems to be going on it when it isn't ready.
New Website!
I have got my new website layout up and running now I just need to start adding content to it! I will have a long day ahead of me trying to get this all running. Right now I am working on adding the tutorials and book reviews so that people have a reason to come back to my site. So I will give you an unpdate later tonight I need to get everything up and running!
cya for now!
cya for now!
Saturday, 5 September 2009
XNA and C#
Hi guys sorry for not updating in about a week but I have been really busy working on my website and trying to add more content. It will be months before I can compete with the bigger websites but I will do it eventually :D right now I am looking at better designs for my website. I will hopefully get it all sorted by tommorow and have it all transferred and uploaded by tuesday hopefully.
Back to the game development. I am not currenlty working on anything in particular I am just merely modding the games I made with the XNA and C# tutorials. This is fun and it helps me get to grips with the C# syntax which is pretty easy I have to say. Right now I am thinking of buying one of the new XNA books out.
Anyways more tommorow! :D
cya for now
Back to the game development. I am not currenlty working on anything in particular I am just merely modding the games I made with the XNA and C# tutorials. This is fun and it helps me get to grips with the C# syntax which is pretty easy I have to say. Right now I am thinking of buying one of the new XNA books out.
Anyways more tommorow! :D
cya for now
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