Aaron Allport » blender http://www.aaronallport.com Thoughts, ramblings and the occasional tip Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:40:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Xbox gaming this autumn http://www.aaronallport.com/index.php/2009/10/13/xbox-gaming-this-autumn/ http://www.aaronallport.com/index.php/2009/10/13/xbox-gaming-this-autumn/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:26:28 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronallport.com/?p=17 Just as I’m getting so busy with work to spend any time on my Xbox 360, there seem to be a few great titles either already released or about to be released this autumn in time for the Christmas shopping season. I’ve been getting stuck in to Colin McRae: DiRT 2, and have recently acquired FIFA 10 (which I’m currently gaming through a Manager Mode season with my beloved Colchester United FC). In the pipeline are Forza Motorsport 3 and Modern Warfare 2, which will no doubt see me spending yet more money on gaming very soon. I’m still yet to finish Gears of War 2 on “insane” difficulty with my best buddy Nick, which I’ll be giving some focus to before I make more game purchases. We’re Nick is also continuing with some fascinating work on Blender, so we’re hopefully going to have some killer screenshots on show soon!

]]> http://www.aaronallport.com/index.php/2009/10/13/xbox-gaming-this-autumn/feed/ 0 AllportGreenhillGames is still alive! http://www.aaronallport.com/index.php/2009/10/04/allportgreenhillgames-is-still-alive/ http://www.aaronallport.com/index.php/2009/10/04/allportgreenhillgames-is-still-alive/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:45:05 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronallport.com/?p=15 In case you thought we’d dropped off the face of the earth since our last blog post, Nick has been grafting away doing some magic with Blender. He’s put up the latest post in the AllportGreenhillGames adventure, so be sure to give that a read. Whilst I’ve been making the libraries interface-driven and more readable, Nick has been getting his 3D skills put through their paces. In short, we should have some screenshots of a game world with a few custom units on it within the next month. I’m personally very excited, as it means we’ve finally turned the corner of finishing the preparation work of the game engine. We’re now able to turn or focus to getting some 3D models in our game world and start manipulating them.

Whilst I can see Nick getting increasingly good at Blender and me continuing to work on manipulation of units, we’ll have to have a think soon about the actual unit strengths/weaknesses and of course the storyline in our game.

Oh, and in case you didn’t know, our game is going to be Real-Time Strategy.

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