Hello Everyone!

ChangeLog:

Hello again,

to give some life to blog, I'm posting the latest version of the console component. We've made some modifications for Phyzell and now we give you the updated component.

Initial Console credits go to: Kevin Jurkowski


Change Log:

28-08-09
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- System Rewritten now commands are added dynamically via Action Delegates.
- Added Support for numeric keys, minus and comma
- Added Support for help messages
- Added a WriteLine method to write in console, even in command action

15-03-09
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- XNA 3.0 Support *
- Console fits to Window Resize Events




Stay tuned for the next posts!

No we are not going to let the blog die!

We are on school holidays and we are starting to work on our master theses. But in few weeks we will start developing a new game. Once again we will share all the milestones and hopefully release some more samples. =D

However you can take a look at this project: http://xnaphysxtools.codeplex.com/. It's a simple tool that we mostly developed for Phyzell which allows to create PhysX meshes from XNA models. It will be expanded if we get feedback from anyone who wants to use it. Please stay tuned for future developments.

Hello!

We've been working hard for the last couple of weeks, trying to polish some of the techniques we implemented, as well as tweaking the game mechanics. We're quite happy with the final result, after 3-4 months of part-time work in this game.

Well, for now, at least, this is it! We submitted our project (that was developed as a course project of our master's degree in Computer Engineering). We're not prepared to completely say goodbye to Phyzell, so we're dubbing this version as Alpha, hoping that in the future we get enough time and resources to improve this concept and turn it into a real game. Nevertheless, we will definitely use our engine in our future projects for XNA, from which you might be hearing about in the upcoming months.

For now, we leave you with the gameplay video and the installer of the alpha version, so you can try it out for yourselves.

Hi there!

We're very excited with the improvements that Phyzell had over the past couple of weeks. You can watch a gameplay video (here in HD) of the the second pre alpha version (yes, that's what we're calling it).

Just a quick reminder of the techniques we're using in this game:
- Deferred Shading
- Deferred Shadow Maps
- HDR - High Dynamic Range Rendering
- Distortion effect for camouflage
- Particle system for the blackhole graphical representation
- Everything running on a custom made engine that is using PhysX.NET and XNA.

Please, share your thoughts and critics.

Hi again,

I know that this is probably the most antecipated post of this new blog, so check it out=D

Please read README.txt and help us to improve this sample. This uses a very very high resolution shadow map (2048x2048) to obtain excelent results. PCF is nice to handle with aliasing problem of shadow maps, so turn it on (1-4 or G key).

Use WASD to move and press the left mouse button to rotate camera and T to enable/disable shadows.

My work here was very simple, so look at CombineEffect.fx to see how the mix between deferred shading and shadow map is made.

The guys who really did the hard work were:

Deferred Shadow Maps in XNA By Matt Pettineo (mpettineo@gmail.com)
http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?article_id=235

Deferred Shading in XNA - Implementing a deferred renderer in XNA GS 2.0 by Catalin Zima
http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?forum_id=18&thread_id=12743&article_id=155
or
http://www.catalinzima.com/?page_id=14



HERE IT IS:



Thanks