Nicol Bolas

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bio	website	arcsynthesis.org/gltut
	location	Los Angeles, CA
	age	36
visits	member for	1 year, 11 months
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I am a game developer with a fairly broad knowledgebase in the fields of animation and graphics, with a touch of AI.

Projects:

A series of tutorials/eBook on graphics programming
The Unofficial OpenGL Software Development Kit
The OpenGL Loader Generator, a much better alternative to GLEW

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259 Answers

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84	How to prevent the “Too awesome to use” syndrome
60	Do 2D games have a future?
40	Map with 20 million tiles makes game run out of memory, how do I avoid it?
39	What are some good learning resources for OpenGL?
36	Which purpose do armor points serve?

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16,703 Reputation

+10	How can I write data to a file that users can't easily edit?
+80	Do associative array data structures have a place in game development?
+15	GLSL Multiple Uniform Structs
+10	How many achievements should I include, and of what challenge?

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3 Questions

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23	Alternates to scratch damage to solve combat deadlocking
5	Tools for assembling textures into DDS files
0	Image drawing tools (that aren't Photoshop) that work in the sRGB colorspace

211 Tags

401 opengl × 100	89 2d × 11
218 game-design × 20	80 glsl × 28
111 c++ × 27	74 rendering × 12
92 architecture × 13	69 engine × 13
90 xna × 13	60 shaders × 18

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Constituent	opengl
Enlightened × 12	Custodian × 6
Nice Answer × 38	c++
Reviewer	Guru × 2
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