What links insects, prime numbers, image-tiling and web design? Why not find out... It's clever stuff =D The art and programming behind Tron: Evolution (also, eMacs!) is pretty beautiful, especially if you like particle effects, as I do. The first Tron gave us Ken Perlin's Perlin Noise technique, check it out to see where we've gone from there. The Typing of the Dead was the only type-to-shoot game I'd seen with that particular mechanism, until I saw this online typing-based shoot-em-up called Z-Type. Certainly sticks it to Mavis Beacon =P Fancy randomly teleporting around the world in Google Streetview? Then you'll want to know about GlobeGenie. It's kinda cool, and unlike Jumper, you don't have to have been there first... How a wok works, explains, well... you get the idea. If you think you already know, you might be surprised to find out just how wrong you are - or at least I was. Resource Acquisition Is Initialisation (RAII) (wikipedia) is a clever way of programming interfaces to data/file More
2011-06-25