Retro Racer

Made some changes and the game feels so much better. I really wish to finish this game but the amount of time needed for me to make assets that are OK is mind numbing. I'm not an artist or a designer but a programmer.

Here is the todo:

• Upgrade car model
• Add other cars you need to avoid
• Add wildlife you need to avoid
• Necessary menu/UI
• Fix visual artifacts on the trees
• Fix horizon/end of road

Making a game

So recently I started making a small game together with my 4 year old. And when I say with I mean sometimes he watch and get to play the results. The most active he is is when I'm modelling and texturing but as soon as the coding starts his attention drifts. Still fun to sit and create something with him.

When my wife was putting out youngest to bed Christoffer (4yo) wanted to play with his wooden railway. This would make too much noise so I took him with me downstairs. In my head this idea to create a small railway building game popped up. I asked Chris if he wanted to make that next when we are finished with this one... he didn't seem to grasp the concept of an unfinished idea and instead said he wanted to play that. Sigh.

Prioritising

Tomorrow the game Tera will recieve a new class. This presents a small problem because I want to play Cs:go and Tropico today and you need to be lvl 40 to play the new class and my wife wants to play with me. She got multiple lvl 40+ but my highest is just 38. Thankfully she knows the ins and outs of Tera so we can Quest efficently but still that's a few hours less of other games for me.

Tera is a different mmorpg because its twitch based which means you have to aim to hit and not just button mash which means skills are much more important than your normal mmo. I hope more games go this way because its way more fun. Especially the bams, bad ass mobs. Mini bosses which actually pose a challenge where you will die if you don't read them and dodge!

Denial

My mother in laws scale is about 10kg off me and my wife noticed. When wifey told her that she was in immediate denial mode.

Fun Run: death to critters

A friend at work recommended this game to me: Fun Run. Its quick fun and addicting and contains furry critter death.

Even our dog is a gamer!

This poor sod got bit by a viper two weeks ago and isn't allowed any strenuous activity so he took up gaming. Currently unranked CS:GO.

He just got of strict rest with only minimal daily walks and now awaits another few weeks with just short walks and he is a Siberian Husky and he is starting to build up his energy. This breed likes to run and for many of them it's their all. It's comparable to what I would feel if I wasn't allowed to sit at the computer for more than 5 min a day.

Network Programming

I'm currently a programmer for Cavelight Entertainment developing a cool game called Velocity Stream.

It's a racing game where the road is built in real time by one player playing as the Paver. Currently I'm working on the networking. A first version used non-authoritative server but that comes with a host of problems so I've almost finished migrating to an authoritative approach, some tweaking on input handling is needed but other than that the largest part is prediction, interpolating positions and reconciliation but I've found this great resource that gives a guide on how to do it: Fast-Paced Multiplayer

We are building the game in Unity and even thou it takes care of a lot of things for you multiplayer games are annoying to work on just because of the sheer amount of things that may have to be communicated and dealt with as well as debugging can be a total pain.