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  • Day 1 - Finding Like Minds

    - by dapostolov
    So, is being a Game Developer any different from being an IT Developer? I picture a poorly lit environment where I get to purchase my own desk lamp; I'm thinking one of those huge lava lamps that pump out so much heat you could fry an egg on it. To my right: a "great wall" of empty coke cans dwarf me. Eating my last slice of pizza I look across my desk to see a fellow developer with a smug look on his face;  he's just coded his latest module for the game and it looks like he's in nirvana. My duty, of course, is to remind him to keep focused on the job at hand. So, picking up my trusty elastic and aerodynamically crafted paper bullet I begin a 10 minute war of welts and laughter which is promptly abrupted by our Project Manager demanding more details from our morning Scrum meeting. After providing about 5 minutes of geek speak and several words of comfort to make his eyes glaze over...it hits me, the idea for the module...beckoning my developer friend over, we quickly shoo the Project Manager away and begin our brainstorming frenzy ... now, where'd I put that full can of coke? OK. OK. This isn't probably the most ideal game developer environment, but it definitely sounds fun to me...and from what I gather is nothing like most game development companies. But I'm not doing this blog series to "go pro"; like I stated in my first post I want to make a 2D game from an idea my best friend and I drummed up long, long ago. I'm in this for the passion AND I want to see how easy it is for us .Net Developers to create a game. So where do I start? Where can I find like minded individuals? What technologies are there? What do I need to make a video game? The questions are endless....AND...since I already have an idea ... lets start with ... Technology (yes, I'm a geek, live with it...) Technology OK. Predominantly, games are still made in C++ or even C. I'm not sure how much assembly code is floating around lately, however, that is not my concern. I do know C / C++ from my past, enough to even get me by, but I'm mainly interested in a recent, not-so-new, technology called XNA. What is XNA? XNA allows us .Net Developers to make 2D / 3D games for windows, Xbox*, and Windows Mobile 7*. * = for a nominal fee *cough* The following link is your one stop shop to XNA game development: http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/gettingstarted The above site hosts information such as: - getting started - a sample/instructional shooter game in 2D / 3D with code (if I'm taking too long for you in this blog series) - downloads - starter kits... http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/starterkits/ And of course...forums. You can also subscribe and pay for their premium membership which gets you some pretty awesome tutorials, resources, downloads, and premium community support. Some general Wiki information about XNA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNA_%28Microsoft%29 Community Support OK. Let's move on to industry and community support. Apart from XNA, there are some really cool sites out there, I just haven't found all of them yet. However, I found a really cool Game Development website called Gamastura. You can click on the following link to get you there: http://www.gamasutra.com/ The site is 100% dedicated to "The Art & Business of Making Games". Armed with blogs, twitter, jobs/resumes and most importantly industry news; one could subscribe to the feed and got lost in the wealth of information it provides. On a side note: I remember Gamasutra being around when my best friend and I wanted to make a video game...meaning, they've been around for a while now. I think the most beneficial aspect of this site is to understand the industry you want to get into. Otherwise, it's just a cool site to keep up to date with the industry in general. Another Community Support option is LinkedIn. Amongst the land of extremely bloated achievements and responsibilities lay 3 groups (that I have found) that deal with game development.: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=59205 - Game Developers http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=824817 - DirectX Game Developer Network http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=756587 - DirectX Developers The Game Developers group in LinkedIn is by far the most active of the three and could possibly provide a wealth of support. What I've done thus far: - I lightly researched the XNA technology - I looked around for some community sites to assist me - I downloaded the XNA Game Studio 3.1 on my PC and installed it on my IDE - I even tried both tutorials! http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/gettingstarted/bgintro/chapter1   Best Regards D.

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  • prevent search engines indexing depending on domain

    - by Javier
    We have a dedicated server with a hosting company with a couple of dozens of webs in it. It happens that the nameservers (EG: ns1.domain.com, ns2.domain.com) ip's are coincident with some client webs, let's say webclient1.com and webclient2.com Problem is that for a certain searches in google, some results are showing up like ns1.domain.com/result instead of webclient1.com/result which is pretty wrong and annoying for our clients. Actually if you type in the browser ns1.domain.com or ns2.domain.com it will load some pageclients instead. Is there any way to prevent google to track those results only in case the robots are coming to check ns domains? It may be not correct to ask this as well, but why is it happening? is it a result of a bad server configuration? I'm pretty new on these matters, so thank you in advance for any help!

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  • Google Mini Search Does Not Return Results

    - by James Lawruk
    I pointed the Google Mini to a small intranet site. (8 simple HTML pages) It crawls all 8 pages just fine, but a simple search with a word clearing contained within the body of the pages returns 0 results. If I enter a search like this: "site:mysite.net", it returns all 8 pages. If I enter a search with a word contained in a Url, it will return that Url. In the search results, only the Url is returned in the list items. There is no Page Title or blurb text you normally see in Google search results. It's as if it is only indexing the Url and skipping the page title, body, etc. I have an old software Version 3.4.14, but I wanted to try to get this thing working without an upgrade. It worked before for another domain, so why would it not work now. Any ideas?

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  • Simulate analogue steering wheel input from third party software like xPadder

    - by David Jensen
    So. I currently have a steering wheel connected to my htpc. Since it wont work / get recognized by all games i play. I use xpadder to play for example Grid 3. As far as i have understood, it simply presses the associated arrow key when i turn the wheel. What i would like, is a software to simulate more and more frequent key presses of the arrow keys the more i turn the wheel. Example: Tilting a little - 100 presses / second Tilting more - 200 presses / second Tilting max - Hold down key Because what i currently do with the wheel is constantly shaking it a bit right, when i just want to turn a little bit right and so on. Os : W8

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  • PS3 controller -> PC -> emulators -> TV

    - by abrereton
    I'm researching a media PC for the living room. Playing videos, audio and streaming Internet is straightforward enough. I would also like to run a gaming console system. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. So far I've discovered that a PS3 controller (thankfully it uses USB and Bluetooth) can be connected to a PC. I've also found that MAME, MESS and PCSX2 are all the emulators I need (I can even emulate a TI-83 calculator with MESS). These emulators can re-map keys, so for example I can make the Nintendo's A button to the PS3 X button, or the SNES key pad could be the PS3 keypad or the analog stick. There are also front-ends to these emulators which can do fancy things like image scaling, anti-aliasing and double-buffering to improve the image quality of an 8-bit Mario on a 50 inch plasma. My set up would be this: PS3 controller connecting over Bluetooth to the PC, PC with Windows, PS3 controller drivers, all my emulators, Network drive with all my ROMs, PC connected to TV via HDMI TV playing Super Mario Kart Does this sound feasible? Does anyone have experience of doing anything like this? Is this a good idea or should I grow up and stop living in the past?

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  • Ubuntu 11.10 crashes all browsers often

    - by murat
    I have been using ubuntu 11.10 for 1 year,today it made me surprised. When I open google chrome it just closes itself. Firstly i thought that it is just for chrome and tried Firefox : It also closes itself and one thing more : I tried desktop programs such as image viewer it also closes itself.I restarted it but there is no changing.What can do this ? is it virus or another system problem ? I did not have any problem like this until today.. $ google-chrome (google-chrome:7064): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (google-chrome:7064): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (google-chrome:7064): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (google-chrome:7064): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", --2012-04-04 19:33:14-- https://clients2.google.com/cr/report Resolving clients2.google.com... 173.194.70.100, 173.194.70.101, 173.194.70.102, ... Connecting to clients2.google.com|173.194.70.100|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] 2012-04-04 19:33:19 (888 KB/s) - `/dev/fd/3' saved [16] (exe:7166): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (exe:7166): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (exe:7166): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (exe:7166): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", Moonlight: 3.99.0.3 Moonlight: Attempting to load libmoonloaderxpi (exe:7201): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (exe:7201): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (exe:7201): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", (exe:7201): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Segmentation fault After trying to install libvdpau1 error is changed : google-chrome --2012-04-04 20:05:03-- https://clients2.google.com/cr/report Resolving clients2.google.com... 173.194.70.113, 173.194.70.138, 173.194.70.139, ... Connecting to clients2.google.com|173.194.70.113|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Moonlight: 3.99.0.3 Moonlight: Attempting to load libmoonloaderxpi 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: `/dev/fd/3' [<=> ] 0 --.-K/s f4c55117d1b4656e [ <= ] 16 --.-K/s in 0s 2012-04-04 20:05:12 (337 KB/s) - `/dev/fd/3' saved [16] Segmentation fault

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  • Installing Apache Lucene for LAMP server

    - by Pawan
    I have Ubuntu running for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server. To provide better search capability one of my friend recommended to install "Apache Lucene". While reading about it I came to know that "Apache Lucene" required tomcat and java to run. Please let me know if it be feasible to have it or there are other better alternates for LAMP stack. I am looking for some proven solution. Thanks :)

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  • Are One Way Links Still Important in Search Engine Optimization?

    Pretty dumb question huh? But people are beginning to wonder considering that Google might change its algorithms again. If you doubt it, do a quick search on the keyword "Google caffeine". This is the new Google search engine and so far, beta testers have stated that it is faster, provides more relevant search engine results and son. Anyways, whatever the case may be, it is important to note that one way links are important right now because the search engines have made them so.

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  • PC does not recognize XBox 360 controller connected through Play & Charge Kit

    - by Mike Cole
    I wanted to hook up my wireless XBox 360 controller to my PC running windows 7. I'm trying to use the Play & Charge kit since I already had that laying around. I plugged it in and Windows recognize it and installed it. It registers in Device Manager as "Xbox 360 Wireless Controller via Play & Charge Kit". The controller also has the 1st quadrant lit. However, I can't seem to make this work with any games. I installed the "Microsoft Xbox 360 Accessories" kit from MS website, and I run the Accessories Status app and it doesn't recognize that the controller is connected. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong out there?

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  • Gamagora présente 3 nouveaux jeux pour les 5 ans de l'école, plus de 300 visiteurs ont assisté au Gamagora Game Show

    Gamagora présente 3 nouveaux jeux pour les 5 ans de l'école Une explosion de pixels durant le Gamagora Game Show Au sein de l'université lumière Lyon 2 se trouve une section spécialisée dans la création de jeux vidéo, appelée Gamagora. Cette section regroupe des étudiants en programmation, infographie et game design. Au cours du cursus, les élèves doivent créer une démonstration de jeu en trois mois. Les élèves sont ainsi confrontés aux différentes problématiques que l'on peut rencontrer durant le processus de la création, allant des problèmes d'organisati...

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  • ManageEngine runs on Apache server

    - by Mark
    What is the web server used by "ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer". When opened and checked with firebug, it is showing "Apache-Coyote/1.1". But the Apache service is not running in Windows service manager or task manager. If there is no active web server how does this tool running properly?

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  • Can my PC run Need for Speed Shift

    - by John
    Here are my PC's specs: Operating System MS Windows 7 32-bit CPU Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.10GHz Penryn 45nm Technology RAM 3.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 332MHz 5-5-5-15 Motherboard Sony Corporation VAIO (N/A) Graphics Nvidia Defaul @ 1280x800 256MB GeForce 8400M GT (Sony) Hard Drives 250GB Hitachi Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 ATA Device (IDE) Optical Drives Optiarc DVD RW AD-7560A ATA Device Audio High Definition Audio Device

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  • Does Google bot(and/or search engines) index a forwarded page? [migrated]

    - by user2889419
    Let say I have foo.bar domain, and I force the user to use the https over http. The question is as browsers just accept and load the forwarded/new page(when the request for http://foo.bar - https://foo.bar), does the google bot(or other search engines) accept the forwarded page and index the new page and just ignore the old page? in other word, does search engines accept https beside the http? thanks in advance.

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  • How can I search in transcluded categories?

    - by Wikis
    I want to add functionality to a MediaWiki wiki to search in specific categories: Platform 1 Platform 2 etc. So I created a template which, based on a certain field, assigns pages to those categories. The template was already included on most of these pages. So now most pages are in either: Category:Platform 1 or Category:Platform 2 Then I thought I just need to add incategory to the search and I'm done, as described on the Wikipedia page. But then I reread it and to my horror discovered: incategory: – using the incategory: parameter returns pages in a given category (as long as the pages are directly categorized, and not transcluded through templates). Eeeek! Is there any other way to search even in transcluded templates? Or any other way of resolving this?

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  • /manual/cache folder on my server?

    - by MrZombie
    Hi all, On our site's server, once managed by someone who's no longer with us, there's a folder named "/manual/cache" which contains txt files named+like+this, mostly using pornographic-related keywords. The content is mainly spam-like gibberish. My assumption on the matter is that it's somehow used to spam search engines, but I might be wrong, which is the reason of my question here. Any idea what it might mean/contain? As an additionnal note, the person's hiring period oddly correspond to the dates of the files, which seem to have automagically stopped being generated after the date we parted ways.

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  • How Does a Landing Page Affect Search Engine Optimization?

    Search engine optimization or SEO for short is one of the many those new to online commercial have to deal with when setting up their web presence. One SEO related question that seems to come up frequently is "How does a landing page affect search engine optimization, and if so to what degree"? The short answer is, yes it does.

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