The Megalomaniac Bore

As an original World of Warcraft player, and a die-hard player from vanilla through to Wrath, I wanted to give my thoughts on World of Warcraft Forever.

News has broken that Electronic Arts (EA) has agreed to a sale reportedly worth around $55 billion to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund alongside Affinity Partners and JPMorgan Chase.

Well, politics aside I thought I'd talk about my game engine and some of the new terrain systems I'm working on.

Here I am again, being political, I watched Question Time last night...

I do try to avoid being too political here on my blog, however seeing this in my YouTube feed....

I won't be linking the content, however earlier today some video of "Blackbird" leaked, it was syndicated on some news outlets, such as the Metro.

Viewers of my YouTube channel will know I have horses, we lunge, ride, trap & carriage drive and generally really enjoy them, keeping them and ourselves entertained.

This is a topic I have visited a few times over the years: 2016, 2016 on SDL2, 2019, 2023 on control block, and I visited it professionally on the now cancelled AAA MMO Game Engine with Zenimax Online; the specific pattern within which came from my origin…

I'm back on my home game engine and I need an area damage effect, which can apply to all the members of a team/party....

I was intrigued recently by a video from LindyBeige about Roman War Waggons, during which he brought up that some folks argue about how a horse might have been tacked to a wagon in that era.

No, I'm not talking about horses this time....

I've had one of those moments where I have posted and just feel the need to elaborate on the topic, I enjoy that feeling, so here goes.

In software engineering I am one of those people who like to embrace change, I will in my own projects and even in professional situations (time permitting) stand up a new version of existing functionality in a side-by-side manner to try out new things, s…

I've had a little bit of a roller coaster few weeks, I would recommend anyone feeling life taking them and rushing them to try and find a minute for yourself, take a breath and slowly exhale.

When I started working as a programmer, my days began with a ritual that felt entirely normal at the time: over an hour of inbound commuting into the city, and then another long outbound journey home.

Modular Ship Building system....

This is a very hard post for me to write, not only am I personally and quite emotionally involved, but I am also still under a strict NDA and as such I can only point you to search the internet for many of the other leaks on the topic.

This post title might look mightily like the post I made in January it is related, but we're going to discuss a different part of my Entity Component System and that is the containers backing my type registration and the actual values stored per component.

Today Microsoft Outlook is back at it's old habits of being utterly dreadful.

I've literally been inundated by a message about my XVE project, specifically calling out why I have the temerity to describe it as an "Engine when it looks do basic?"

For about two years I've had a home game engine project, this has just been a little sandbox in which I have been able to experiment with graphics API's, systems, memory, threading models and other such "Game Engine" like things; it has simply been a lear…

We are at the change of am epoch, moving from a time where we would mockingly tell someone to read the manual when they became stuck to now having to literally instruct people to read the screen.

Very quick one, I've taken delivery of a new Graphics Card...

Let us talk Software Design, let us talk about code locality.

Today I bring you a story, a true story, from my very own past.

Time for another story from my tech history, this time I point my torch of memory at one of the first larger systems I worked on from start to finish (nearly 10 years).