1 minute 32 seconds of pure genius.

natalie portman's shaved head - sophisticated side ponytail.

The bit at 1.10 where the whale eats the katamary ball of the band is inspired. Also the band has taken 1995 and injected all that awesome into their virtual reality bonus zone. Make sure you've got sound. The midi is to die for.

MattD

Objloader version 014 up on google code

Now with VBO!

One piece of advice for all who come after me. When dealing with arrays in opengl, remember that the stride of an array IS IN BYTES. That's right F**KING BYTES. One Float is 4 bytes. to get to the second element in a float array you need to skip 4 bytes. Motherfu----.

Seriously I spent about 8 hours on that bug. Just another example of information so common knowledge I knew nothing about it. Opengl you are a fickle mistress.

mattD

StarCraft 2 now Diablo 3, this is the end of days.

Diablo 3 was announced today. After seeing the game play video I understand that whenever it gets released I do not want a game coming out anywhere near it. You can't fight that kind of awesome. Just stand back and think "So that's how you do a teaser video".

The release of any game by Blizzard will cause a singularity that will destroy the non-Blizzard shelves of your local gaming store. If you're making a PC game right now, you'd better hurry and get it to market. When Blizzard releases Starcraft or Diablo you aren't going to sell anything for about six months.

Of course knowing the Blizzard release system (roll 5 D20, 100 means it's ready) you've probably got a bit of time.

MattD

copy for HTML.

Processing has a "copy for discourse" feature and when it works it awesome. It takes the code in the pde file and formats it for the discourse board. But this doesn't help when you want to publish some code on the rest of the internet. Something like this

void setup(){
  String myString = backwards("the quick brown fox");
}

String backwards(String s){
  String t = "";
  for(int i = s.length() - 1; i >= 0; i --){
 t = t + s.charAt(i);
}
  return t;
}

OMFG colour. Adds a lot to code doesn't it.

Well I thought that maybe other people might find this tool useful, so here is the pde that makes the pretty colored text above. It takes the contents of the "formated for discourse" clipboard and formats it for the web.

1. Get your code and copy it for discourse.
2. Run the copy for HTML pde.
3. Paste into blog.

copy_to_HTML

Make your own Engrish

Fun with translators. Type in a simple phrase. and then keep translating the output till it can't translate anything else. For example.

1. Hello what is your name?
2. When there is a name, present several?
3. Is there a multiple which when name shows?
4. When name shows, is there a multiple?
5. When name multiple it shows there, is?
6. The first-rate multiple which when, is shown there where it is?
7. At the place where it has that, the time it is shown first-rate multiple there?
8. At the place where it has that, has time that been shown first-rate multiple there?
9. At the place where it has that to that, time has been shown thing first-rate multiple there, it is?
10. At the place where it has that the, had time been shown the first-rate multiple of thing, there where that it is?
11. Time having been shown the first-rate multiple of thing in the place where it has, there it is the that somewhere?
12. At the place where it has first-rate multiple of thing the time when it is shown, there it is that somewhere?
13. Is first-rate multiple of time thing as for that, there of a certain place which is shown that somewhere?
14. Is first-rate multiple time a certain place which is shown thing somewhere, there in regard to that?
15. Is first-rate multiplex time a certain place which has been shown somewhere thing in regard to that, there?

Classic lines from game dev.

"I added this thing so that you can slow down time.
I couldn't speed up time cause things explode"

Matt Clark


I have a very weird job.

Some damn funny game design over at Mazapan.

You Have To Burn The Rope

rock paper shotgun did a walkthrough

Absolute genius.