Last year, I wrote a blog about creating your own simple collision detection code. I implemented this for a children's math game I created. You can refer to my blog here:
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Threading a 3-D Game: Analysis & Methodology Using Destroy the Castle
In this module, participants will learn some principles for threading a simple 3D graphics game. We will decompose the problem into separate pipelined domains that can be threaded separately. Specifically we will look at how to accomplish concurrent processing of Physics, AI, and other game components and how to achieve speedup on multi-core platforms.
The Inner Game of Concurrency Programming: Optimizing for Intel's Dual Cores
by Alexandra Weber Morales
Abstract
While much has been written about the whys, hows, and whether-or-not-to's of threading, there's been little focus on the most productive way to pound a paradigm shift like this one into place. Here's a peek into the Zen of threading for game developers.
Performance Scaling with Cores
Intel developed Smoke, a dual-purpose framework and tech demo that emphasizes the advantages of multi-threaded gaming that is multi-threaded to utilize multi-core processors. This article describes the basic framework used.
Open Source Game Development
Introduction
A 3D game engine is a complex collection of code. Anyone entering into game development would have to spend at least a year developing a game engine or purchase a pricey game engine to utilize. Of course, another option would be to use an open source engine, but game developers have often shied away from these due to their lack of features and reliability. However, these days there are several open source engines (or low-cost commercial engines) that have a rich set of features and offer stability.
Simulating Cloth for 3D Games
by Dean Macri
Introduction
Havok Physics Innovation Contest Winners
Thanks to all the participants and congratulations to the following entries who were selected by our panel of judges. They get to take home the following cash and hardware prizes:
Category 1 - Most Innovative Use of Physics in a Game
Two Brains Are Better Than One
Artificial intelligence (AI) drives gameplay. To maximize your AI’s potential and utilize the entire CPU, this means threading. This article examines how to thread a simple AI and some of the challenges in writing an AI that truly scales to multi-core.
Designing the Framework of a Parallel Game Engine
How to Get the Most Out of a Multi-Core CPU with Your Game Engine
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