Well my XBOX arrived the other day, so as you can imagine I've been rather... uh, "busy" for want of a better word. I'm sure my wife could think of a few other words :) I haven't been totally idle, however, and I've been busy porting Missile Command o… more »

Woot! I'm so excited! I got the results from the DevSta entry and... I came third! It's not exactly a secret (after all, the winners are now up on the devsta website), but I just wanted to thank the organisers and all the other contestants. It was a b… more »

This is the final post in my little DevSta {Challenge 2008} "miniseries". In previous posts, I described how the vehicle "AI" works to avoid the rocks and also how the explosion animations worked. In this post, I'll describe how the vehicle images are ro… more »

There's actually only two animations that I needed to create for my DevSta { Challenge 2008 } entry, Missile Command, an "explosion" and some smoke for the missiles themselves. Both animations were created the same way, and I'll details the steps here. I… more »

In this post, I'm going to describe the method I used in my DevSta entry to get the enemy vehicles to avoid the rocks (and each other). The technique is pretty simple, and isn't actually all that "intelligent" as far as "artificial intelligence" goes, bu… more »