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Porting a Fixed-Function Game to a Programmable Pipeline: Part 3

Leave a commentJune 12, 2010

I’m porting Crush the Castle from a fixed-function, OpenGL 1 renderer to a programmable, OpenGL 2 renderer. In the last couple of posts I described how I separated my initial fixed-function renderer into three distinct classes: An abstract Renderer interface that the game itself talks to A concrete implementation of the Renderer interface that uses [...]

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Porting a Fixed-Function Game to a Programmable Pipeline: Part 2

Leave a commentMay 29, 2010

This series of posts is about converting an existing OpenGL 1 renderer into a “dual,” abstract renderer that can speak to either OpenGL 1 or OpenGL 2 depending on what the hardware supports. In the particular case that I’m working on, I’m taking Crush the Castle, which was written for OpenGL 1 hardware on the [...]

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Porting a Fixed-Function Game to a Programmable Pipeline: Part 1

6 CommentsMay 29, 2010

I’ve started work on porting Crush the Castle from the iPhone/iPod Touch to the iPad. I thought I’d share some of the technical issues I’ve encountered while expanding the Crush the Castle renderer from an OpenGL 1-based system to a system that supports both OpenGL 1 and OpenGL 2. When my daughter wants the iPad [...]

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An Update for Crush the Castle is On Its Way

9 CommentsJanuary 12, 2010

An awesome new update for Crush the Castle is on its way to the iPhone App Store. The update adds a whole new continent with 40 additional levels, three insane new weapons, improvements to the editor, even faster performance, and more. If you haven’t tried Crush the Castle on your iPhone or iPod Touch, the [...]

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