Kick-Off

Hello Everyone,

my name is Safi and decided to create a game on my own and blog the development process.

I have an almost complete ("wished to have") game design in my head but I rather choose not to tell it. :) I'd like to reveal it step-by-step in form of different features and small milestones encapsulated in separate posts.

It's worth to note that I didn't meant this blog as a tech. tutorial or similar rather I will concentrate more on concepts, decisions and on presenting screenshots and video sneak peeks where possible.

Therefore while discussing features or anything game-related I will expect that the reader is already:

• familiar with XNA and has written at
  least some basic 3D applications with it
• familiar with HLSL, knows what vertex and pixel shaders are for and has written at least some basic shaders e.g. basic per vertex/pixel lighting
• familiar with linear algebra, e.g. knows what a vector or matrix is and what their different operations correspond in 3D space
• in possession of rudimentary rendering knowledge and has at least a hint about things like:
• draw primitive
• vertex
• normal vector
• texture co-ordinate
• light source
• main transformation matrices (world, view, projection)
• spaces (e.g. world, view, object, tangent, screen)
• z-buffer
• alpha blending

I'm already excited about the journey we are about to have and hope it won't take much to have my first post. :)

See U there!