Ben Garney
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Forest Pack – Finally out the door
It took a few years, but I finally released the fixed function GL forest renderer I was working on for Torque. You can find out all about it at my .plan on GarageGames. Various businessy things got in the way of releasing it (and perhaps a bit of apathy on my own part … but…
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SpaceNavigator Support for Sauerbraten
I recently got a 3dconnexion SpaceNavigator after trying a friend’s. Really neat device. 6 degrees of freedom in a slick little package, and only $50. And it’s actually fun to use – not frustrating and cheap-feeling like many other “weird” input devices I’ve tried. Its big brother is the same knob with some extra buttons…
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The Acquisition
Jeff Tunnell, one of the GG founders, wrote a cool post on the IAC acquisition of GarageGames… Check it out at Make It Big In Games.
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Using the Domain class in Tamarin for dynamic code loading
Using the Domain ActionScript class (as opposed to the C++ class of the same name) in Tamarin is actually really easy. This class isn’t available under Flash 9 for security reasons. It lets you load new ActionScript code at runtime, as our example will demonstrate. Dynamic code loading is pretty cool functionality – it could…
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Debugging Tamarin
I’m getting my feet wet in Tamarin, the open-source ActionScript 3 runtime from Adobe – same code that’s in Flash 9. It’s cool tech, and I’m ecstatic that they had the cajones to bring it out into the world – where it’ll definitely make the world a better place. This gets kind of technical so…
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SuperMate
So I own this Griffin PowerMate, which is essentially a USB knob with a light under it. It’s pretty cool – solid construction, simple operation. But the software it comes with is a little limited, and it’s not been updated in a while. All I want, says I to myself, is to make iTunes pause…
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I Contributed To Disney World
My forest pack code is in the racing game at the end of this video from Spaceship Earth in Epcot: It’s an indirect contribution for sure, but I’m still proud. 🙂 (Spaceship Earth is also my mom’s favorite ride at Disney World… so Happy Mother’s Day!)
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