Category Archives: Site News

Site Update

Posted by on February 23, 2012 No comments

It has been I long time since I last updated this site. For various reasons, I did not have the time to provide updates. After a while, this lead to a general loss in motivation. I have come to the realization that I will never complete enough tutorials to finish an entire game engine.

That is, however, no reason not to continue posting useful information. Over the next few weeks, I will be updating the previous tutorials so that they are stand-alone. Those should be more useful in the long run anyways. I will also begin posting some material on my new project, Galaxy Tactics.

-Eric

GJK Algorithm Demo

Posted by on March 15, 2011 No comments

The Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) algorithm is a method that can be used to find the minimum distance between two convex objects. The algorithm is often used for 3D collision detection in video games. I decided to write up a 2D implementation to try it out. So far, I have been very happy with the results. I am now planning on replacing the existing collision detection in the Entropy Engine (line-line intersection testing), with the GJK algorithm. I will also write a tutorial on the algorithm in the next week or so. In the mean time, you can see it in action here.

Game Engine Design  SVN

Posted by on February 19, 2011 No comments

I have set up a SVN repository at Sourceforge.net. If you have an SVN client installed (such as TortoiseSVN), you can check out a copy of the current game engine code. The repository location is https://entropyengine.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/entropyengine/trunk/entropyengine. I will also be packaging various releases to go along with the tutorials, so if you dont want to use SVN you can simply download a .zip file. A word of warning, the game engine is still in early development and may not be the most stable. If you have any comments or questions, let me know.
-Eric

Hello World

Posted by on February 2, 2011 No comments

I am going to try and resurrect this site again. This time I will be using WordPress which should make adding updates much easier. There will also no be some dynamic content such as comments, so overall, I think this will be a much better experience. For at least a little while there will be a lot of small changes to the site, so sorry in advance for the inconvenience.

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