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 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/ "Naïve upsampling of pixel art images leads to unsatisfactory results. Our algorithm extracts a smooth, resolution-independent vector representation from the image which is suitable for high-resolution display devices (Image © Nintendo Co., Ltd.)." Nearest-neighbor result (Original: 40 x 16 pixels) Algorithm result

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Found this awesome Super Meatboy poster!

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Just found this awesome list of paper textures:http://naldzgraphics.net/freebies/200-high-quality-free-paper-textures-to-grab/

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Finding documentation is always a big hassle when you start a project. I've already found a lot of UDK documents and videos that I found useful, but I've ofc. forgotten where they were... so I've decided to add them here (I'll keep on adding as I find/remember good links).Tutorials @ 3DBuzzUDK Forum @ EpicnFringe Visual Studio Plugin (a must!)UDK Programming @ EpicHow to set up UDK @ the

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I've been looking a bit into random level generation during the last week. In the search, I found a couple of articles that caught my attention:Cave Generation Through Fractal AccretionEmergent Urbanism - The complex gridThe problem with algorithms like these is that they easily can become too random. To prevent this I went for a slightly different approach with a higher degree of designer

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I just found this page (Lost Garden) which has some awesome graphics available for indie projects :DImage from the

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Another interesting use of physics by Strange Loop Games.

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Had a fresh start on the engine this vacation.Created using:XNAFarseer PhysicsFlatRedBallBitmap Font Generator(..and some debug GFX from Zelda)

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Found this while browsing around the other day.

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Added static objects to the level format (w/animated textures), and a debug rendering component to help debug the physics.

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While looking for some sort of console for XNA games the other day, I came across Neoforce Controls. It's an awesome GUI package for XNA, in the alpha stages of development. I downloaded it, and made my own little console ;).I know.. not a very exciting screenshot

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Image found here.

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I'm currently going through my old projects and sorting out the useful stuff from the broken crap. Found this useful little tool for managing sprite animations (nevermind the name - horrible pun).

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Abstract"This paper presents a method for face recognition across variations in pose, ranging from frontal to profile views, andacross a wide range of illuminations, including cast shadows and specular reflections ..."Get the paper here.This technology is just insanely cool! I'd like to see games adapt this technology to get more diverse (not to say realistic) looks on their characters. There are

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I just discovered The Animal Farm Research which is a coding blog containing a lot of information on procedural content generation (and coding in general).Quote from Gamedev:The screenshots are part of my research. The buildings models are generated 100% procedurally according to a shape grammar specified by Wonka and Mueller (with som extensions/modifications), which is similar to an L-System

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"When people tell me "plz" just because it's shorter than "please", I feel perfectly justified to answer "No" because it's shorter than "Yes"."-Shellar(quoted from a wow message board)

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"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea." - Guy Debord

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It's finally proven that our princess is insane! According to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, she claims clairvoyant powers which she aims to share by teaming up with another nut case and starting an alternative school aimed at training students to contact angels. Check out the website and the original article.quote - Aftenposten.no:Märtha Louise, who competed in equestrian events for

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To stop global warming, Strahd von Zarovich advocates destroying the sun. Send your donations today.quote: The Fraternity of Shadows

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This is actually an old article, but I forgot to publish the link until now :P. Seems like Mike Patton is more than just a great musician, but also a promising voice over actor (at least for disturbing voices ;). Now if only the game's as cool as it looks.Image taken from futuregamez.net

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I haven't had the time or effort to code much lately - the job's taking up most of my daytime and I'm usually too tired to code when I get home. But I've managed to dedicate a couple of hours the last couple of days to try and make some advancements on Soulreaper. Lately I've been thinking about the possibility of making the game 3d. I've not decided to go with this option though - I'm just

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If you thought you need a guild then you're wrong! (The scary part is that he has a girlfriend and she's in on it)

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Dark Legacy Comics

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C# has ruined my tidiness. Somehow I expect the garbage collector to come and clean up my apartment as well. Lately I've been doin' mainly two things: working and playing computer games (WoW and some 360), so I haven't had much time/energy to clean up ;).Oh, I actually haven't written it here - I got a Xbox360 for my birthday. My parents and friends got together and bought me one of the best

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While I was surfing around yesterday, I discovered the word "greebling" on a random page. Now, the page states:quote: Classic-Space LEGOGreeble, greeb or greebling is a word not recognized by most dictionaries. As written in the greeble design commentary on Lugnet, “‘Greeble’ (also ‘greeblie’ or ‘greeb’) is the popular term to describe groupings of mechanical-looking detail elements on MOCs”.It

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Image is from the game Final Fantasy - Crystal ChroniclesCopied from ign.comI've always been interested in magic systems. We all know the quote by Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from magic" - and I'm sure that magic wouldn't be the least magical if it existed - but that's beside the point. What I'm interested in is the implementation details and the

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I just read an interesting article over at Gamasutra.com about how games are still considered an exotic media, and how making it more mundane probably will increase its mass appeal and give them a more important role in our everyday life.

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The official gamplay video is here!! You must check this out!editYou can now watch it directly from gametrailers.com!

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starcraft2.comYou've taken away my life the past couple of weeks with WoW and now this? Starcraft II is finally announced and it's gonna rock my world. Damn... there goes all my ambitions for the upcoming year. Here are a couple of teasers. You can find trailers at starcraft2.com or at gametrailers.com.

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First I'll have to apologize for the long absence. I've been too caught up in - guess what - World of Warcraft. It's every bit as addictive as I imagined and I've spent most of my spare time playing that game since I started playing it last week.Now.. let's get back to the issue at hand. Lately I've been working a lot as an office assistant (or something like that) which involves using a lot of

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It seems the UK has again managed to increase its lead in the "Biggest Police State in The West" competition (or was it world?). Lip-reading surveillance cameras? Orwell must be proud of you!

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BioShock is one of the games I'm definitely looking forward to! We know that it's got a powerful rendering engine since it's based on Unreal Engine 3, but what makes it stand out is its custom water rendering. Irrational Games have just released another teaser and this time around it's all water rendering - check it out.If you're interested in water rendering then check out these link:Animation

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I got home from work and was feeling restless. I needed something - but I didn't know what. Was it beer or cigarettes? Food or perhaps even drugs? No, the feeling was different. But What? It was the oh so familiar feeling of computer game cravings!I have been too busy to play any computer games for a couple of weeks. I've been working a lot, and all my spare time has been spent either with my

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BackgroundI’ve always been intrigued by the thought of a hacker (or cracker – whatever you prefer to call them) game. Uplink seemed to do this quite nicely, though I haven’t actually played it more than just playing around with the demo.Now imagine that you use the hacker theme for a puzzle/turn based strategy game (TBS). I’m thinking about breaking into systems and planting malicious code

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There are lots of reasons not to use Facebook, and their privacy policy is one of them! Before you read the following quotes, check out this flash animation (I'm sure it will put you in the right mood):Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?quote: Wired - Lessons From the Facebook Riots"Unfortunately, Facebook can change the rules whenever it wants. Its Privacy Policy is 2,800

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quote: GameSpy - Top 10 Ways to Know You're a PC Snob"The PC Gamer Snob, every gamer knows one, you may even be one yourself. They consider the PC to be the end-all be-all of gaming and will scoff at the idea of dirtying their hands on any sort of upstart console. Here's a handy guide to see if you or one of your friends fits into this especially snooty class of gamer."(no comment)

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Check it out if you haven't already!

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If you're like me and remember the adventure games of the good ol' days you'll be pleased to hear that Sierra are re-releasing Kings Quest, Larry, Police Quest and Space Quest for modern PCs (now where's Quest for Glory?)! I'm not sure how they plan to make them run on modern computers and operating systems, but it seems like they're using technology from DOSBox - so I'm excited to see if they

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I found this nice looking pirate illithid here - According to the 4th Four Elements competition, adding pirates to your game is more or less one step towards making a killer video game (though it's not guaranteed ;)quote: Four Elements IV Contest"After years of research1, we determined that every successful game requires one of four elements: robots, pirates, ninjas, and zombies. So what better

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I've been thinking about the usage of voice and voice distortion in computer games for a long time. Having in-game voice support (team speak etc.) is a great way to enable fast communication between players but it breaks some of the illusion of you being your avatar. A mighty dwarven fighter with a squeaky voice is always a turnoff (not that I get turned on by dwarves any way ;) - so why not use

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Image taken from Shadowrun for the 360I've written about this earlier (in this post) but I'll mention it again since it fits the SDGI idea well. If you check out this post you'll find a lot of different ideas concerning how to make a magic system fun/different!

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Why does a character always have to be young and energetic? I hereby propose the game Geriatron. You're playing a senior hacker in a futuristic cyberpunk rpg setting. You start the game just as your character gets his death sentence by the doctor - so the main task in the game is to get hold of all manners of biological and cybernetic enhancements to cheat death just a little longer.Since you're

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Need I say more? It's been said before, but I'll stress it - ninja zombies are cool! If you've ever seen a game with a ninja zombie, then please let me know!By the way - Resident Evil 4: Japanese Trailer.

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How many times have I not played an RPG and just needed a couple of more points to level up. XP sharing to the rescue! I think it would be really cool to be able to treat XP as any other resource in a game - this mechanic should of course be balanced and made into something more action filled than just being able to donate a couple of points to another player. Perhaps it's vital for team tactics

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I've just decided to start a section in this blog called SDGI where I write one game (related) idea (almost) every day. The purpose of this section will be to force me to think creatively about games every day - sort of like an exercise in creativity - and to write it down. I've got so many game related notes all over the place but I can't seem to find them when I need them ;). The ideas don't

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I've just played R.I.P 3, and it was a disappointment after playing Crimsonland. The game is unbalanced, I don't find the graphics as appealing and it generally lacks the omph. If you're going to test just one of the top-down shooters I've listed, I'd recommend Crimsonland!

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A couple of days ago I found this game. It's a top-down shooter with 6 different characters to choose from, level-ups and even vehicles at your disposal. I haven't played it yet, but it seems like it might be another top-down shooter for the Soulreaper inspiration list.

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I've just found a couple of more top-down shooters to add to the list (I'll add more posts later). Crimsonland is developed by 10tons, published by Reflexive and you can find a downloadable demo of the game here.Now I wonder why they call this game crimsonland - could it be because it's the color which dominates the ground after playing the game for just a couple of seconds? If you like the game

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I just found a new game which uses a top-down view. It's called War Angels (as the title states) and it's still under development so I haven't tested it - but it seems cool!Watch the teaser online here or download it here!

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It's nice to see that the black Xbox 360 Elite is finally confirmed!

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No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch.

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Gmail PaperHave you ever wanted all your mails printed on paper?Google TiSP"Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines."

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Check out the notes from the tutorial day titled "Core Techniques and Algorithms in Shader Programming" at GDC 2007.

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I've just found another top-down shooter! Evil Invasion is an rpg-meets-vertical-shooter (a bit like what we're aiming for with Soulreaper) created by VH Games. The gameplay is quite enjoyable even though it feels somewhat crude.

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I just found out that the Optimus Keyboard is being showed at this years CeBit trade show. If you haven't heard about the Optimus yet, then check out the picture below and this link (also check out the Optimus project blog). It's a 114 keys keyboard where every key is an OLED color monitor with a resolution of 32x32 pixels. The system is 100% configurable either through their own API or through a

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It's good to see another group working on a game based on a top-down view. Babo Violent 2 is a free multiplayer top-down shooter developed by RndLabs. I haven't tested it yet but it seems really cool.

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Oh joy, oh joy! XNA will finally get bitmap based font support amongst many other updates - check out the list here! Now if only they get Reflection.Emit so we'll get some serious scripting possibilities (one can dream!)

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I've been thinking a lot about how the maps should be created in Soulreaper lately. The plan is to have semi-randomly generated levels like in Diablo but there's an added complexity since the world map is also generated randomly. I'm thinking about using a set of predefined occult symbols as the basis for generating world maps. These symbol/map files will contain enough information for the

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I've been doing some updating on the character section of the Soulreaper wiki. I'm just starting on a basic stat system, but the flesh of it will have to be worked out when some characters are up and running in the engine.

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Long time, no write. I've been really busy lately since I've been working both with Soulreaper and my daytime job. It seems we've come a long way with regards to the Soulreaper classes - even though we're far from finished. I started to create a document containing all class related information yesterday and I'll have it up as soon as possible. I'll have to have a look at how easy/difficult it is

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I've got to say that I really enjoy playing Zelda! And I'm not talking about the newer games, since I haven't yet had the chance to play them, but I'm talking about the good old sprite based Zeldas. I'm currently playing "The Minish Cap" (not that old but retro anyway) which is a beatiful upgrade of the Zelda 3 look and feel, even though they could have added a couple of hours work on the story.

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This is more of a note to self than a blog entry - Remember to read this at work tomorrow!

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After the previous post about Soulreaper, a member of the team got a bit offended since he wasn't mentioned, so here's a full blog entry just for him ;). The way things are organized now, we're basically three people active on the team: Michael, Me and Niklas - two coders and one muse. He's up for nerdy game discussions whenever he's online and he has already brought a lot of fresh ideas to this

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Every woman should have this as rape prevention. Just fiddle his balls and voila.

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As some of you might have noticed, I've put up a project section in the menu. I'm planning to put links to all my current projects there - at least those who have got some information online.The first project I've put up is Soulreaper - an arcade rpg in progress. We're currently two programmers, one story/quest designer and a musician on the team. I'm planning on being a bit more structured with

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I just found these notes from some sort of lecture on multiprocessing. I'm most interested in the notes about the Cell and of course the 360!

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I just found this page which I'm reading for breakfast. It should bring me up to date on the 360 hardware.Edit: I found out that it was a bit outdated after I wrote this, but it was interesting reading none the less.I'm currently trying to come up with the core engine design for the current game I'm working on with a friend of mine. Multithreading is the way to go if you've got processing needs -

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I just realized something. Coding for the 360 and PC at the same time isn't only sweet - as I've just realized when remembering that there's something called safe area in TV editing. Here's a simple way to display these areas - and now to find a good way to handle them both on PCs and TVs. I guess I'll bring the notion of safe areas into my base canvas class, which is a wrapper class around the

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I've just bought a new program - Pilgrim Pro 3D R2 - A great and versatile program for VJ-wannabes like me ;). It's one of the (if not THE) most versatile VJ programs I've seen, with the possibility of creating your own combination of effects, assigning an expression or graph to any variable and its own shader driven 3d engine.On the other hand it seems to be a bit in its infancy though. It's a

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www.ribozyme.noMy friends from Ribozyme are playing at Maiden in Oslo tonight at 2100 hours. If you like melodic metal with hard riffs and a slight tad of emo (not too much though) you might like them! Check out some of their songs from their own page.

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I can't wait to get my hands on these models - especially the jetbike!

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I've just found a great post about rendering grass with shadows which pointed me to this - the notes from a Siggraph 2006 presentation. Should be something for every terrain engine!

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I started playing Oblivion a couple of days ago and it's a really addictive game. The open natured experience combined with beautiful visuals makes it a good candidate for my top 10 rpg's ever list!

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I was really excited when I got to borrow a 360 for xmas - at last could I try some XNA coding with the controller - but helas. The official drivers wouldn't install and the unofficial drivers i found wouldn't recognize the device. It is a wireless controller with a USB cable connected and I expect this to be the problem with the unofficial drivers. The cable might only be to recharge the

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Henrik - a friend of mine - took some pictures at the superhero party. He didn't send me all but I'll post a couple of more when I get hold of them!

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I just found a noise algorithm invented by Perlin to overcome the shortcomings of his Perlin Noise. It's called Simplex Noise and seems to be a great substitute!

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As you might have noticed, the page has gotten a new design. This is of course just one of the presets since I don't have time to design something myself. I've also done a couple of other adjustments - upgraded to the new blogger which by the way is a great improvement, and added tags to the posts.This is my last day at work before I'm heading home to my parens for the holidays. My sister's

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