Gran doradium it's not a game

Four years ago I worked in Málaga based company that develops 2d gambling machines.
This was our first game called "Gran doradium". My tasks were implement openGL and openAL native bindings and some game logic.

The game itself doesn't have any technical wonder, but for a previsted development of one month, the game releases one year later.

Our team was only 5 people that grows to a 20 in the last development stages.



With this little entry I want to vindicate that the game development process isn't is a child's play.

Safari (beta) for windows has been released

You can download latest version for windows XP and Vista here

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My game in the wikipedia

Wow, I just been made a search in google of my 3d racing game 'Kar Racing' (yes, the name is well written) and I found that the second entry is THE WIKIPEDIA.

I don't know who uploads it, but I suppose that is a marketing strategy of publisher. Anyway... thanks!!

'Kar racing' in the wikipedia

YARG!!!! (Yet another racing game)

Kar racing is a game that I developed some years ago (2003) on demand for an US company "Webfoot games". Nice hours debating game related stuff with game producers...



The develop process was hard and I can remember that I didn't sleep too many hours per day (3 or 4 in the better case).

Well, the game uses directX7 but only for 2d triangle rasterization, the engine was full developed from scratch by me and the CPU managed all 3d transformations. Of course in this time I was a terrible MicroSoft corrupted programmer XD and I loved to use DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectInput and DirectAnything :S

Now, open source development opened my eyes. (haaaaaallelujahh)

A friend of mine Jorge Gómez was the graphic artist.

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Drawing circle primitives using GL_POINTS in GLSL

One of the best things that I love in openGL due to performance is to draw using GL_POINTS instead standard triangles or lines, because it's an ideal primitive for debug purposes or 3d geometry editor (I think that it's more easy than GL_POINT_SPRITES to show all vertices in our geometry, for example).

But the lack is that you're only allowed to paint ugly scaled quads :S. Using the programmable pipeline you can paint any shape that you want. I upload 2 shaders for paint circles in GLSL using GL_POINTS.


circles_with_gl_points.vert
circles_with_gl_points.frag

Realtime 3d hair physics simulation

My first program to show to the world :) This demo was a bit old, but I always remember with wet eyes :>



You can download the video and other programming stuff in my website
I use verlet integration for physics, where each spring matches to any edge in the face patch (I import the hair as a single model from a modeling program). Before simulation starts I must sort faces by distance to the head center for allow a more realistic simulation.

The algorithm is too fast, and I use sphere-triangle collision instead sphere-point for more accurate results (and avoid interpenetration).

Questions? :)

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Code::Blocks for Slax 5.1.8, or my 2 cents to open-source cause

Another cool program that I use in my job is codeblocks

"Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable..."

...ok, ok. Until here nothing awesome... but... the power of this IDE is the multiplatform concept. Like java says: "program once, runs everywhere". With only one project file, you can compile and run your application in Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

This is my little contribution to open-source cause:

Codeblocks for Slax


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