Sunday, 24 April 2011
Hemicube Rendering and Integration
One of our aims with our global illumination implementation was to keep it as simple as possible, while still obtaining good performance, and we hoped to achieve that by using the GPU. While the are several approaches to compute global illumination in the GPU, the most simple one that we could come up with was [...]
?External Intrusion? causing PSN downtime, Anonymous denies responsibility
Currently the PlayStation Network, which boasts about 75 million users, is available to no one and has not been since Wednesday. Sony has been largely quiet on the unprecedented downtime, but now they’ve let loose some new intelligence on the matter. In a post on the official PlayStation Blog, SCEA senior director of corporate communications [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThatVideogameBlog/~3/gZpMBg62VNE/
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Island Shrinkage
In the previous update I talked about how, despite the fact that The Witness is an “open-world” game, we are trying to make the environment as compact as possible.
Today I took a step in that direction by moving some areas around and compacting the island, changing its shape a bit:
Here’s a shot from the other [...]
Today I took a step in that direction by moving some areas around and compacting the island, changing its shape a bit:
Here’s a shot from the other [...]
All my Adventure Game Reviews so far on PC Game Reviews and News
Since I've reviewed more adventure games on this blog than any other type of game, I thought I'd remind you about all the adventure game reviews I've written here so far. Because adventure game reviews are what we're about here at PC game reviews and news, and if we mentioned adventure game reviews enough, people who are searching the web for adventure game reviews will hopefully be more likely to find us, and that's good because as you can see, we've done some adventure game reviews. I also wonder why I'm often referring to myself in the plural sense, but we don't know the answer to that.
- Sam and Max Season One
- Sam and Max Season Two
- And Then There Were None
- Return to Mysterious Island
- Journey to the Moon
- Runaway: A Road Adventure
- Secret Files: Tunguska
- Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
- Wallace and Gromit Grand Adventures Episode One: Fright of the Bumble Bees
- Wallace and Gromit Grand Adventures Episode Two: The Last Resort
- Full Throttle
- Wallace and Gromit Grand Adventures Episode Three: Muzzled!
- Keepsake
- Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1: Launch of the Secret Narwal
- Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode Four - The Bogey Man
- Tales of Monkey Island Episode 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
- Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3: The Lair of the Leviathan
- Tales of Monkey Island Episode 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood
- Tales of Monkey Island Episode 5 - Rise of the Pirate God
- Sam and Max Season 3, Episode 1: The Penal Zone
- Sam and Max Season 3, Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
- Sam and Max Season 3, Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain!
- Jolly Rover
- Sam and Max Season 3, Episode 4: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
- Nancy Drew: The Curse of Blackmoor Manor
- Sam and Max Season 3, Episode 5: The City that Dares Not Sleep
- Puzzle Bots
- Quantumnauts Episode One: Speed of Light, Space Pirates and Multiverses
- Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Evil Under the Sun
- Back to the Future Episode 1: It's About Time
- The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
- Le Chuck's Revenge: Monkey Island 2 Special Edition
- Secret Files: Puritas Cordis
- Lost Horizon
- Gemini Rue
- Back to the Future Season 1 Episode 2: Get Tannen
- Back to the Future Season 1 Episode 3: Citizen Brown
- Adam's Venture 2: Solomon's Secret
- Mata Hari
- Return to Mysterious Island 2: Mina's Fate
(I know... this was shameless and quite pathetic really... :-D)
PC Game Reviews and News
GameMaker 8.1 Lite Restrictions ? Final Decisions
YoYo Games’ original intention was that the free, or Lite, version of GameMaker 8.1 would be unable to create executable files. Indeed early beta versions of the program had the “Create Executable” option from the file menu disabled. This would have meant that in order to play a game that had been created using GameMaker [...]
GameMaker 8.1 Lite Restrictions – Final Decisions is taken from: GameMaker Blog
Source: http://gamemakerblog.com/2011/04/14/gamemaker-8-1-lite-restrictions-final-decisions/
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