Mavor's Rants

Adrian Courrèges a programmer living in Tokyo did a nice reverse engineering job on the SupCom graphics engine.  If you are interested in t...

Forrest wrote up a great detailed post explaining Chronocam. http://forrestthewoods.com/the-tech-of-planetary-annihilation-chronocam/

The last day of PAX is here.  This is the first time it's been four days and it's just crazy exhausting.  I'll be hanging at our...

Damn, I've been really lax in updating this blog lately.  Sorry about that buy building a game takes most of my time and energy at the m...

If you want more followup on some of the problems in planet generation Allen Chou has written a nice blog post about it.   http://allenchou....

So we finished the Kickstarter campaign in September.  I spent October doing technical research for the engine and hiring more team members....

Here is a link to our latest live stream showing some more of the game play.

Some players seem to really want big massive planets in the game.  I think they have their place but I think it's likely smaller planets...

Here is the livestream we did today showing off PA for the first time in public. Don't forget to check out our replay / casting sys...

I wanted to drop a link to our last live stream where we go into some more details on the planet generation and the navigation system.

We released our first iOS game today. http://theoutlandgames.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outland-games/id591262172 I'm rea...

We had the opportunity a few years ago to do some cutting edge implementation work on real-time raytracing.  The idea was to solve the pract...

In this update I'm going to reveal some of the more technical details of the PA terrain system.  If you aren't technically inclined ...

You can preorder PA at the  Uber Store So I'm going to ramble on a little bit here about the engine architecture for the UI of Planet...

Just a quick note that if you are interested in AR you need to check out the short film Sight. It's not perfect by any stretch but it...

I've been in full-on engine research mode since the Kickstarter ended. Up to this point it's been mostly high-level engine design ty...

Wow, I'm shocked and amazed but we just crossed the $2M line on our Kickstarter. A huge thanks to everyone out there that contributed a...

This is the first time in a couple of years that we haven't had a PAX booth. I'm going to spend some time walking around the floor ...

Looks like we are rapidly headed towards 7-figure land. The more we get the better a game we get to make. Looks like it's happening! ...

Well we've managed to hit 800k in less than two weeks. I've been crazy busy answering questions, doing interviews and starting to w...

I've been a bit silent mainly because I've been working on Planetary Annihilation. Now that the kickstarter is up I'm double bu...

I actually took a bit of a vacation last week (fairly unusual these days) and had a chance to do some reading.  The timing was good as the b...

I'm definitely a fan of Stargate but my viewing trailed off when a lot of the characters that I like left.  I've recently been catch...

I was excited to see this piece by Patricia Hernandez over at Kotaku because she's really understood what we were trying to do with the...

When I get to talking about RTS games with either fans or other people in the industry they often ask me what my favorite RTS is.  Now the f...

 I was thinking a little bit about how old photographs have really decent image quality.  In fact other than the color issue they can pretty...

The market for personal computing has been evolving rapidly in the last decade.  The modern era really began in the 70's with computers ...

Procedural content has been a buzz word for a while now. The concept isn’t new but people seem to be using it a bit more than in the past....

I couldn't figure out a title for this one. It's just a random story from when we were working on Radix. We needed to outsource so...

When you are doing any business deal it's really important to be on the same page. Don't make any assumptions about how the other pa...

The story of Thred.  This is the program that taught me about the emerging power of the internet.  In December of 1995 we shipped Radix: B...

Well the Senators are officially out again and this may be Alfie's last game.  Oh well, I guess this means I don't have to watch any...

Does anyone else really enjoy writing code using straight up injection?  Some of the work I've been doing recently I've completely a...

For a long time I've wanted to spend some time writing down my recollections of what I did on the TA graphics engine.  It was a weird ti...

Running any company can be challenging. We've completely transformed from a product based company to a service based company over the la...