Game design, programming and more
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft -- derisively called "Orcs in space" in 1996 -- into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two … [Continue reading]
In this post I'm going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers -- even good ones -- seem to get terribly wrong! Then I'm going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, … [Continue reading]
I've been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts … [Continue reading]
In my previous article about Warcraft I talked about the beginnings of a series that would come to define Blizzard Entertainment and lead it to being one of the best-known and most-loved game companies in the world. But how did Warcraft go from an … [Continue reading]
So you've written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn't work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and … [Continue reading]
