Peter Taylor

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Worked as a computer game designer and developer for five years. Most proud of Torquing!

Now working in other fields of software, but still aim to participate in the Java4k game contest each year.

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Nov 17	comment	What different ways are there to model restitution in a physics engine? @MikaelHögström, a brick wall is fairly elastic relative to sand. Unless you're thinking about forces on the order of driving a car into it, you can probably assume it won't take damage.
Nov 17	comment	What different ways are there to model restitution in a physics engine? @MikaelHögström, it's about hardness in the sense of elasticity vs plasticity. I suppose that if you really want to simulate rather than approximate you could calculate forces and use tables of yield strength... PS I've e-mailed the author of that thesis to notify him of the broken links.
Nov 17	answered	What different ways are there to model restitution in a physics engine?
Nov 17	comment	Writing a Master's Thesis on evaluating visual scripting systems Where is the evaluation side going to come from? Are you going to recruit a hundred arts students, split them in two groups, ask the first group to use PlayMaker to make a game and then do the same with your tool, the other group to do it the other way round, time them, measure their game quality against some criteria, and interview them about the relative difficulty? That seems a significant enough project without actually implementing your tool - which means that you probably can't fit it in.
Nov 15	awarded	Necromancer
Nov 8	comment	Legal considerations when starting a game development team Why can't you create a company? (And put the answer in the question, not at the end of a list of comments where no-one will see it).
Nov 5	comment	Guitar hero clone and music Before anyone can attempt to answer this question, you need to supply more details. Specifically, at minimum: 1) which jurisdictions are relevant? 2) What does the contract you've signed with the artists say about royalties?
Oct 24	answered	What is the breakdown of jobs in game development?
Oct 20	comment	Why is this 8 puzzle unsolvable? @Ashwin, to be more precise, their notation is dodgy. If you look at the goal state, the blank tile should be `9` rather than `0`.
Oct 20	comment	How does a one-man developer do its games' sounds? @Sidar, music in the public domain (i.e. most classical music) doesn't have copyright. That's the point!
Oct 19	comment	How does a one-man developer do its games' sounds? @Sidar, creating digital copies doesn't take talent, but creating original work does. Surely?
Oct 19	comment	How does a one-man developer do its games' sounds? @Sidar, I wasn't being sarcastic but I didn't mean to be condescending either. The point I was trying to make was that there is a large repository of music in the public domain, built up over centuries, which a one-man indie can use, so said one man doesn't need to be a musician. However, the visual art which has accumulated in the public domain over centuries is almost completely unsuitable for the indie game developer, so he does need to be able to create his own graphics.
Sep 26	comment	What is the best degree Computer Engineering or Software Engineering? It depends on what specifically you want to do. E.g. there are some roles in engine development which might require a PhD in physics.
Sep 20	comment	Bullet pattern isn't behaving as expected Rather than repeat with four similar for loops you should have an outer for loop which goes through the possible directions (either stored in an iterable of some kind or using basic arithmetic to rotate by 90 degrees).
Sep 13	revised	j2me Bitmap font added 509 characters in body
Sep 13	revised	j2me Bitmap font added 2180 characters in body
Sep 12	answered	j2me Bitmap font
Aug 16	awarded	Nice Answer
Aug 11	comment	Menus for LWJGL - Swing or other? FengGUI is another option, although it's a couple of years since I used it so I don't know what state it's currently in.
Jun 15	comment	Game programming course materials: What should it include? What is this intended to lead into? Or is it a completely standalone course?