For the past two weeks you may have noticed my website was not online. My domain name expired and thinking that I have set the domain to auto-renew, didn’t take any action to renew for another year. My domain was open to the market for a short while, but I don’t think anyone would want it anyway. So I paid to have it back and the site’s back up. In the meantime I’ve been working on a few more things…

I finally finished my basic scene graph, which loads from external text files. With it you can set which meshes to use, where to put them in 3D space, and what textures to load. Finishing that, I decided to tighten up the graphics a little bit. So I added lighting and a simple specular material that made the models pop. Nothing very awesome but getting there. Right now I’m learning how to write shaders in HLSL.

With this experience, I plan to make a game out of it, simpler than Roll ‘Em Out. It will likely be a Bomberman clone, just small enough to complete it in a reasonable amount of time…I’ll give myself a few weeks to finish a playable version of it.

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