Archive for June, 2009

Choose Wisely: Adventure Game Engines

As I mentioned before, I’m planing to implement Jester Chip with an existing game engine like AGS (Adventure Game Studio). Such tools save me a lot of programming so I can concentrate more on concrete content. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. While working on the concept and getting started with AGS, other possible [...]

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 9.46 pm by Paul · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Jester Chip: Playable Flash Prototype

I’ve decided to release the old Jester Chip flash movie (550 KB), which serves me as a prototype now. It makes a good preview which I didn’t want to withhold. Since Flash doesn’t improve the overall loading time of a homepage, I made the game accessible only in the full view of this post. Those [...]

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 11.53 pm by Paul · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Voxels

Recently, I yearned for graphics programming again. At the end of my studies before I got my bachelor degree, I made my first experiences with OpenGL and I’m aiming for digging out the old project again and refactoring it. However, while roaming the internet I stumbled upon something much more interesting. The famous programmer Ken [...]

Posted on June 16, 2009 at 9.53 pm by Paul · Permalink · One Comment
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Back from Rock am Ring

We had fun at the Nürburgring. It was a nice extended weekend with my girlfriend which featured the following: music lightshows a suprisingly good-humoured Jonathan Davis tents crowd rain mud more mud garbage cold wind drunken people more drunken people cooking coffee in the car canned ravioli mating cry of humans in the wild (“Helga!”) [...]

Posted on June 9, 2009 at 10.37 pm by Paul · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Monkey Island Returns

As I read it on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, it struck me like a bolt of lightning. Two things: There will be another Monkey Island sequel by Telltale Games There will be a remake of the very first original Monkey Island by Lucas Arts Ok, number one wasn’t as exciting as number two. Why? Because there [...]

Posted on June 2, 2009 at 1.46 pm by Paul · Permalink · One Comment
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