Author Archives: Justin

PBuffer and Post-Processes

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Justin

One neat concept I learned about while researching deferred rendering was the PBuffer. The PBuffer is used for post-process effects and contains at least two screen-sized render targets that are swapped between each other while rendering each post-process effect sequentially. … Continue reading →

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Controlling HTML Without A Keyboard or Mouse

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Justin

Since the beginning of the Card Kingdom, we’ve been using XBox controllers as the main sources of input for the game. The controllers afford us preexisting control schemes, analog movement, and support for multiple players at once. What it does … Continue reading →

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Tool Time – Interactive Wave Editor and Lessons Learned

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Justin

Interactive Wave Editor As the project nears completion, this will be the last Tool Time post, but I’m ending with a bang. A large part of Card Kingdom is its waves and their design. They are our main mechanic to … Continue reading →

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More Lightning and Shadows

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Justin

More Lightning In a somewhat recent post, I showed off the initial stages of the lightning effect that I’ve been working on. One of the major hurtles that was tripping me up, and the reason why in the old video … Continue reading →

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Transparency in Deferred Rendering: Narrowing Down the Research

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Justin

The research topic I am working on as part of the graduate program is adding transparency into a deferred rendering pipeline. If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been posting a lot about deferred rendering. The main reason I wanted to redo our … Continue reading →

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Deferred Particles and Lightning

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Justin

Deferred Particles As with other parts of the engine, the entire particle system was updated to use a similar deferred rendering method as the regular geometry. This really improves the look of the particles, in particular smoke and dust, as … Continue reading →

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Tool Time – GDC and New Editor Features

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Justin

The Card Kingdom team was lucky enough to attend GDC, Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco a few weeks ago. We showed the game to a new audience that spanned the spectrum of students to industry veterans. The overall feedback … Continue reading →

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Justin’s Winter Post-Mortem

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Justin

What I did For this version of Card Kingdom, I worked on updating core engine components with some optimizations and cleaner code, refactored the serialization pipeline to be more robust with prefabricated objects, or prefabs as we called them, added … Continue reading →

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Tool Time – Particles, UI, and Resources

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Justin

Particle Editor and UI Communication One of the newest features I’ve been working on was the in-engine particle editor. This was a great test for the communication from the UI to the engine, and back again. In developing, this was … Continue reading →

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Deferred Rendering In Card Kingdom

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Justin

Background One of the major updates to Card Kingdom going forward is a complete rewrite of the rendering pipeline. In the original version, the alpha version essentially, we used a”forward rendering” style for our rendering process. In a forward rendering … Continue reading →

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