Anybody out there?

[enygmyx]

Hi,

Are there any active professional game developers on PG. I know a few but it would be nice to know if there is anyone else. I would like to start a little game developer community here. So that we can share our experiences and help out each other as well as the people who want to get into the profession.

 

[Cade2]

I used to be an active game developer, though not professionally.

 

[enygmyx]

Hi Cade2, atleast someone bothered replying to this thread . What have you worked on and what are you doing now?
Come on ppl I know there must be others on this forum as well. You ppl too busy? or just not interested

 

[Cade2]

I've recently written a game demo:
http://i.imgur.com/HcVso.jpg

 

[Rapchik Killer]

Yea im doing mobile game dev professionally.. we are in pak, as for what we are working on, well start sharing from next week on hopefully.. what about you? Id love to know what have you worked on, cause you seem new to the forums..

 

[enygmyx]

I've recently written a game demo:
http://i.imgur.com/HcVso.jpg

Yeah I saw this in the sticky thread. Looks pretty cool. I think you mentioned that you are using your own engine. Kudos to you. Could you spare some more details about the project? Like what libs your engine is based on and what you plan to do with this project?

 

[Cade2]

This project functions as a game demonstration for my portfolio, it's a Quake-style shooter with some not-very-bright bots. My renderer supports DX9/DX10 and OpenGL (though incomplete), my engine isn't based on any libs though DirectSound/FMOD for audio and PhysX/Bullet for physics are optional.

 

[enygmyx]

Yea im doing mobile game dev professionally.. we are in pak, as for what we are working on, well start sharing from next week on hopefully.. what about you? Id love to know what have you worked on, cause you seem new to the forums..

Hi, I knew about you already seeing your active participation on this forum and saw some of your work, which btw is great. As for me I have been involved in game development for about 9 years out of which I have been developing games/simulations professionally for about 8 years now. Used to be an avid gamer but dont get that much time these days especially since I mostly played multiplayer games and most of my old friends/clan mates are not available anymore . These days I am working on a couple of projects (3D PC games).

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This project functions as a game demonstration for my portfolio, it's a Quake-style shooter with some not-very-bright bots. My renderer supports DX9/DX10 and OpenGL (though incomplete), my engine isn't based on any libs though DirectSound/FMOD for audio and PhysX/Bullet for physics are optional.

So I assume thats its more of a renderer. What sort of feature set does it support?

 

[Cade2]

It's more than a renderer, I also have AI (navigation mesh generation + usage), physics (Quake 3 style, not rigid body), networking, sound, scripting (with my C interpreter), etc. I had a list somewhere here, but it supports Doom3/Quake4 .proc maps, Unreal .t3d maps and has a map compiler for polygon soup + portal polygons. Besides the usual sector/portal system, there's also an occlusion cell visibility system, good character controllers with animation and IK support, post processing effects and a few other features which I don't remember off the top of my head.

 

[enygmyx]

Wow. I'm impressed. All this and yet you do not work in the game industry? We really need ppl like you !. Btw what do you do professionally?

 

[Cade2]

Thanks. I used to, but I got tired of it, so I'm a software engineer and research programmer now.

 

[enygmyx]

Thanks. I used to, but I got tired of it, so I'm a software engineer and research programmer now.

May I ask where are you based? ISB, LHR, KHI?

 

[Cade2]

None anymore, I moved out of Pakistan for higher education and don't plan to move back.

 

[enygmyx]

Ahhh. Well somewhat unfortunate for the local industry but best of luck in your current and future endeavours (Y).

 

[Cade2]

Thanks, same to you.

 

[lolz]

Well I too am a professional game developer... I mean I saw that dream once :$

 

[enygmyx]

Well I too am a professional game developer... I mean I saw that dream once :$

Hi there,
Hope you are doing good. So whats stopping you from making that dream a reality. Are you a student or already working in some other field?

 

[lolz]

well actually I have created a great many games, most of them in dreams, and a couple in the real world :$

Yeah I am sort of a student (I leave it to you to deduce the meaning of the word 'sort' in this context )

Anyway, me and a couple of friends did participated in the game development competition of imagine cup 2011 and we have made it to the semi finals

 

[enygmyx]

well actually I have created a great many games, most of them in dreams, and a couple in the real world :$

Yeah I am sort of a student (I leave it to you to deduce the meaning of the word 'sort' in this context )

Anyway, me and a couple of friends did participated in the game development competition of imagine cup 2011 and we have made it to the semi finals

Wow, thats cool. any links to your project that you submtted for the imagine cup? Would really like t have a look at that. Could you post more details about the whole process and the competition.

 

[lolz]

Well, here is the gameplay video we submitted at round#1, once its a bit more complete, I would upload the entire game.

Oh and I know I am pretty bad at english, so I wouldn't mind if you don't laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSiHzy-kpT8

And we joined the competition pretty late, and we had only around 2 days to spare to the game (considering the assignment work load). But we would have a much better game for the semi-finals

Well about the competition, its a student's competition of different tiers, they have a multimedia competition, a software development competition, an IT competition and a game competition (three in fact)
you can see the details here:
http://www.imaginecup.com