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• Where the dogs of society howl

  I owe you this. I owe this to the team. I owe it to those who have read and believed in us. We're a badass team and you'll hopefully have seen some of what we can do. Those screenshots alone should blow your minds. This is how it is. When your life falls Read More... Posted Saturday, November 17, 2007 2:06 AM by Rich Bryant | 5 Comments

• Planning It Out

  If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. In order to plan, you first need to assess your assetts. As of current status, those are: 4 very talented analyst/developers 1 excellent project manager 1 technical author A complete concept system A few bits of Read More... Posted Saturday, November 10, 2007 2:54 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments Filed under: Faith Specific, Technodrivel

• Lizards. No, really.

  I don't have the 'flu. I am not susceptible to minor ailments and only get sick very rarely. So i have Man-'flu. This is a virulent and deadly form of the 'flu virus which only men get and the reason why women think we whine about what she thought was "only a cold". In my case, i suspect the forthcoming apocalypse. The moon on Saturday was apparently blood-red (don't ask me, i'm colour blind, i thought it was grey) due to a full lunar eclipse. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:15 PM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments

• Site Theme Almost Complete

  I hope we can all agree that this is much more appropriate for Faith . Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:28 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments Filed under: Faith Specific, Website

• Feel the Noise

  In this case, Perlin Noise procedurally animating an HLSL shader with a standard skybox and some procedural clouds (which i need to work on). I also have a few dodgy light-reflections that need fixing but considering that this was adapted wholesale from Read More... Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 4:37 PM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments

• Plans Afoot

  And a face. And a body. Character creation is one of the most appealing things in many online games for many people. And i think i've just come up with a way to truly exploit that. Read More... Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 12:27 PM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments Filed under: Faith Specific, Technodrivel

• Since nobody reads forums anymore

  First off, i'd appreciate your thoughts here . This is actually a fairly vital aspect of gameplay, so think carefully before posting. I reserve the right to verbally savage anyone who isn't thinking ;) Secondly, yeah, i admit it, the whole AGC thing was Read More... Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 1:05 AM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments

• So, the first batch of refactoring....

  I don't know how many of you keep up to date with MS's tech announcements. Probably just me. But yesterday's (for all us beta subscribers) was a doozy. You can find it here. What this means for me is that i have less than a week to refactor everything Read More... Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:18 AM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments Filed under: Faith Specific, Technodrivel

• Management is for suckers

  I always hated management. Back in my Team Leader days, i'd wander around desks in a desultory fashion, try to help programmers with what they were doing (always a thankless task) and curse the know-nothing fools who gave us such ludicrous deadlines. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:44 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments

• Miracles and Wonders

  Not all of Faith is low tech. Some aspects of it, we would regard as extremely high tech. Herein follow (translated!) excepts from Don Armando del Castillo de Nueve Torres y de la Costa de las Espadas' seminal work " Los Milagros y las Maravillas de Nuestra Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:54 PM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments Filed under: Design, Faith Specific

• PhysX

  Based on previews of Easel, the 3D app and my calculations for graphic vector processing in Faith, we have just been accepted for the hardware and software program that Ageia are running for their PhysX Physics Processing Unit. I think that's pretty cool Read More... Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:33 AM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments

• Crimes and War Crimes in Virtual Reality

  Strongly referencing this article posted today on Terra Nova and it is well up to standard - thought provoking stuff. What is the consequence of a crime? What happens if i kill you? To begin with, there's a strong statistical likelihood that i will be Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:01 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments Filed under: Design, Faith Specific

• Flashes of Faith - #1

  (the first in an occassional series where aspects or specifics of Faith get previewed to you, the harshest critics of all) (from the notes of Fr Pietro diNucci, encyclopaedist to the Holy See) ..the Great Faiths have always been tolerant of Heresies secure Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:19 PM by Rich Bryant | 17 Comments

• Finding my faith, capturing yours

  Thing is, much as i'm delighted by Chris's work on the economy, over the moon by David's restructuring of our inventory database (this guy blows me out of the water as far as data management is concerned) and hugely looking forward to Matt's innovative Read More... Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 10:08 PM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments Filed under: Life, Faith Specific

• Size Matters - Part 2

  My first foray into the examination of size left out an awful lot in order to stay with the topic of a person's physical size and how it affects them and their world view both in online and offline situations. It was also somewhat of a manifesto explaining Read More... Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 11:21 AM by Rich Bryant | 5 Comments