Game Development - Software Engineering

Thatcher Ulrich | 1 Feb 2009 05:46

Re: AI for abstract strategy games

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Jaba Adams <jaba.adams <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> What about a domain-specific language that can express the rules of
> many abstract and board games?

FYI http://code.google.com/p/turn-games/

"A generic open-source model for games with turns (chess, go, poker,
bridge, backgammon...)"

-T
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Michael Kelley | 4 Feb 2009 03:01

HeroEngine terrain painting/splatting

Does anyone have an idea (or is willing to take a guess) on how the terrain painting on the HeroEngine works? It mentions that the "HeroEngine has a tremendous freedom of textures with support for up to 256 textures in each of the up to 4 layers." That's a lot of textures, and I'm wondering if that's done using multiple rendering passes or some combination of texture atlases and blend maps. It seems like they would have to use multiple passes to render and blend that many textures.

Here's the info:
http://www.heroengine.com/world.asp

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Nicholas "Indy" Ray | 4 Feb 2009 03:15

Re: HeroEngine terrain painting/splatting

It's difficult to tell what is meant by that, as far as I can tell
that meas it has 4 logical layers it can blend between, though at any
location each layer can only have one texture. if that is the case it
greatly simplifies texture rendering/blending.

Indy

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Michael Kelley
<michael.a.kelley <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea (or is willing to take a guess) on how the terrain
> painting on the HeroEngine works?  It mentions that the "HeroEngine has a
> tremendous freedom of textures with support for up to 256 textures in each
> of the up to 4 layers."  That's a lot of textures, and I'm wondering if
> that's done using multiple rendering passes or some combination of texture
> atlases and blend maps.  It seems like they would have to use multiple
> passes to render and blend that many textures.
>
> Here's the info:
> http://www.heroengine.com/world.asp
>
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John Edward | 5 Feb 2009 07:44

Draft paper submission deadline extended: Software Engineering and Game Development

The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. As a result, the deadline for paper submission for the special session on Software Engineering and Game Development is also extended accordingly. The conference and the session will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include:

· International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09)

· International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09)

· International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09)

· International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09)

· International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09)

· International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09)

· International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09)

· International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09)

· International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09)

The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details.

Sincerely

John Edward

Publicity committee

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John Edward | 20 Feb 2009 18:23

Draft paper submission deadline extended: SETP-09

The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. The conference will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: