On Being Excellent to Each Other

Marcus Zarra has a somewhat depressing post today on the excellent Cocoa is My Girlfriend blog. It's about the release of The Daily. Because of all the secrecy around The Daily prior to its official launch, I think not a lot of people knew Marcus was not just involved with it, but was actually leading much of the development effort.I knew.I wasn't on the main development team for The Daily, but I did most of implementation work on a single component (the 360° panorama). I wasn't in NYC every day the way Marcus was, but I went down there enough to know the conditions under which the application was written. I saw the endless late nights (actually, it was usually early mornings) and the stress and difficulties under which the app was written. A personal stake always makes it harder to watch...

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Posted in: Other blogs,Rant

Thoughts on Unity3D

As I stated in my previous post on 3D engines, I'm going to do four blog posts giving my thoughts on each of the four engines that I looked into using for a project recently. Those four engines are Unity3D, Sio2, Ogre3D, and Cocos3D. I'm starting with Unity3D, which we selected for one of our recent projects.Now, let me state up front, that all four of these are competent engines and I could see situations where I would recommend three of the four engines for client projects and could easily imagine situations where all four of them would be good choices.These four do not make an exhaustive list; there are other engines out there, including some really good ones, but these were the four that we looked at for this specific project. As much as I like the UDK, for example, I don't like it enough...

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Posted in: Game Programming,OpenGL ES