Current events archive

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What follows is an archive of older entries found on the current events page, going back to the dawn of time!

Building a Better Scripting Language by Using Dynamic Classes

I just added "Metal"'s exellent tutorial Building a Better Scripting Language by Using Dynamic Classes to the Visual Basic tutorial section. His original tutorial can be found here.

Sion 23:10, 29 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Building A Simple Physics Engine Part 1

I finished Part 1 of my physics series called 'Building A Simple Physics Engine'. The series starts by building a small physics engine, then expanding upon it. You can view Part 1 here

GMan 16:51, 29 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Playing a WAV Sound File With SDL_mixer

SDL tutorial number two is now online! Next on my list: Using SDL for keyboard input.

Ryan Clark 23:43, 27 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Displaying a Bitmap With SDL

Just finished the first real SDL tutorial, Displaying a Bitmap With SDL, with yummy source code included.

Things are rolling now! More SDL tutorials to come.

Ryan Clark 18:54, 22 Aug 2004 (EDT)

C/C++ and SDL Environments

I've finished writing instructions on how to find a free C or C++ development environment, in addition to a tutorial on how to set up your SDL build environment.

Now that the preliminaries are complete, I can start on the SDL tutorials themselves.

Ryan Clark 13:34, 22 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Framing Buffer Tile Scrolling Algorithm Tutorial

I added a new Framing Buffer Tile Scrolling Algorithm Tutorial, which outlines a technique for improving frame rates in tile based games.

Ryan Clark 23:44, 20 Aug 2004 (EDT)

XML as an INI Replacement (VB.NET)

I posted my tutorial from Atomic Monks here. It goes over some basics of using an XML flat file instead of an INI file.

Brother Erryn 13:19, 16 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Skeletal Animation

I've added some source code that shows how to do skeletal animation using directX and VB.Net, enjoy :)

(update: I have removed most of the math hax and replaced them with the correct math, almost all of my matrix functions have been replaced by the directX functions)

--Rene Kersten 23:20, 20 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Done!

All old VB game programming tutorials have been migrated. I can now get working on real live new content!

Ryan Clark 21:36, 14 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Posting Old Tutorials...

I'm in the process of posting all of my old VB game programming tutorials. I hope to have this finished up over the weekend, so that I can officially announce the opening of The Game Programming Wiki.

Almost there!

Ryan Clark 22:01, 13 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Files Updated and Uploaded!

Just finished updating all of my old VB source code ZIP files (well, I did most of the work on the weekend) and have uploaded them. Added short descriptions to each file page, and created the VB 5.0/6.0 Source Code page.

Next up: Updating and posting all of my old tutorials!

Ryan Clark 00:07, 10 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Initial Setup Complete!

I have just finished setting up the phpBB forums and modifying the wiki file upload routines and copyright pages. Things are now ready for me to begin adding actual content to the site! I'll start transferring over the old VB game programming tutorials soon.

Ryan Clark 18:09, 7 Aug 2004 (EDT)