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If you play a game set in the cold vacuum of space these days you can expect one thing. Mining asteroids for resources. Yep. Usually a non interactive process as you click a button, the laser fires into rock, and… Read More »
Our dastardly plan for global PR dominion-ation begins… (geddit? :D) with our spoof TV channel called “Vestra” (or V) which airs “Dominion – Worlds”, a documentary series detailing some of the worlds to be found in Dominion. None of this… Read More »
Our game engine is – from a renderer point of view – legacy. It was written with flexibility and performance in mind, but back in the days of OpenGL 1.1. Thanks to Microsoft refusing to update the driver support –… Read More »
In the last gameplay blog we talked about asteroid mining, and lasers, and all that other business around mining standard resources. Because we’ve got such a cool system that allows you to cut precisely through rock, there are additional uses… Read More »
It’s all a bit quiet again…
… because we’re now drafting/redrafting/rethinking the pitches for the funding campaigns – so there’s little to see again at the moment. I’ll try and get some screenshots uploaded ASAP though just to keep things ticking along!
Rendering objects in space realistically is a big problem aesthetically. Space is black, lots and lots of black – more precisely, there’s very little light. That might surprise you when you look at nice brightly lit pictures of moons, and… Read More »
So, here we have the lens flares integrated into the Dominion game engine, and full HD capture in real-time for everyone to enjoy!
We’ve had some excellent concepts submitted – check out the screenshots for more!
Sorry, couldn’t resist 🙂 Thanks Arthur C. Clarke for being such a visionary! Star rendering… I’ve left it alone for quite a while – as we’ve got plenty of other things to be working on at the moment – but… Read More »
Engine Flares Revisited
I’m sure this one thing is going to kill me. I realised my intended approach is very similar to a toon-shader. I need the effect to “roll off” based on the viewing angle. So I started tinkering with one to… Read More »
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