Here is an interesting video of the tools Eskil Steenberg has engineered for his game Love: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPIA2g8T6Hw] His integration with Uni-Verse is definitely an interesting take on what life as a content creator could be like without having to deal with load/save/export via files on disk. Verse seems to disconnect where data is stored and [...]
Several years ago, I developed an effects tool at High Voltage Software. I was rewriting the effects system we had used on Hunter: The Reckoning and a couple of follow-up titles while creating the tool. The original system had given us some really great results for our first generation Xbox titles and the company wanted to reuse [...]
Today, we have an interesting tool writen by Toolsmiths reader Eddie Schooltz. The tool, which he wrote about on his blog, is for searching for Perforce change sets, and I can see how it would be incredibly useful (provided you have good changelist descriptions) when searching for when things changed. Eddie says he’ll be posting [...]
Today, we have out first guest post! Today’s post is from Jay Taoko the founder of inalogic inc, a software company specialized in game development tools for artists and programmers. Before inalogic, Jay was a programmer at Ubisoft where he worked on Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Rainbow Six Vegas. Before that, he worked for [...]
At GDC, we got a lot of good ideas on what people expect from the Tools SIG in the comming year(s), but I want to ask the blog readership what they think, to make sure we’re focusing our efforts on the projects that will not only give the most back to the community, but expand [...]
When I was in college I was a double major — computer science and English. I know, I know, strange combination. Anyway, of the few things that people have said over the years that have really stuck with me, one such pearl of wisdom came from an English professor. He said that a piece of [...]
The Toolsmiths are now all back fro m GDC (I’ve been on site with clients the past week) so we should probably recap some of what happened. Geoff, thankfully, has already posted the notes / slides from his talk, and I’ve now filled in the Tools SIG wiki with some of the notes I was [...]