Monthly Archives: February 2012

Is Anybody There?

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dave

Probably not, at least not yet. So why create a blog with no potential readers? The main reason is that I find writing ideas down in concrete form a necessary first step in the process of taking an idea to … Continue reading →

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A Matter of Scale

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

When dealing with a voxel world the number of blocks visible at one time grows quickly as it depends on volume which grows as n^3. Looking at MineCraft again for some examples: the far distance has a view diameter of … Continue reading →

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How Fast is Fast Enough?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dave

Something I was thinking on the way home: in real-time procedural world generation how fast do we have to be able to create the world in real-time? In a procedural and semi-infinite world like MineCraft the game only generates and … Continue reading →

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What’s In a Name?

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Dave

Why “Emergent Game Design”? I’d like to say it was after weeks of careful and meticulous research into the optimal company name but in reality it was after just a half an hour of playing around with various name combinations … Continue reading →

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