The Clockwork Asset Builder

Here is another update on the level editor I'm making. I had some struggles with the WinForms and XNA combination, because I couldn't use the Content Pipeline the way I was used to. When you ran the program, it build all the assets with MSBuild in a temporary directory and removed those when you closed the program. This did allow me to use the assets, but the loading time became higher and higher if I added more assets.  Changing the build...

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My portfolio in short

Instead of making an entire site to show some videos about projects I've done so far, I will post it here. Much more user-friendly and compact! Most of my work was made at the USAT, during my two years of enrollment. That's where I picked up programming (so that means I've started programming two years ago!), by making a Flash game. Which I unfortunately lost due to a human error on my FTP server. If anyone reads this: MAKE BACKUPS and not on...

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Clockwork Age - Camera controls are done!

I finally got the camera controls to work properly. The orbiting, panning, zooming, scrolling and keyboard-movement now work the way I planned. All the movement is done in the CameraMan-class, a member of the Camera-class. The problem was that I couldn't get orbiting around an object to work without messing up rotations. After a lot of googling I found a useful way to accomplish this. The idea of setting the position to a transformed Vector3.Backward...

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Clockwork Age

Clockwork Age is a project I am doing with a friend of mine, as preparation for the study we want to do at the NHTV in the Netherlands. I am aiming for the Game Programming-direction and Luc is aiming for the 3D visual art. We both stopped our study at the Utrecht School of Arts & Technology, because we both disliked the way the school treats its students, we both wanted to specialize something. We chose to do this after completing two full...

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The initial commit

Yay, my first post on my very first devblog! First of all, let me introduce myself. I am Eric Polman, a student of at the moment of writing 19 years old. I live in the Netherlands in a small town called Eemnes. My interests lie in computers, games, game design, game programming, web development, web design, 3D art, listening to music and partying. That's practically everything I do, apart from my basic needs. I will use this blog to keep readers up to date about my current projects including Clockwork Age (a project I'm doing with a friend of...

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