Devil May Cry: New Dante Explained

Working on DmC is a thrill for me. Devil May Cry is a well known franchise in the gaming industry and Dante is an iconic character. With his cool guy looks, super white hair and his pair of bad a** guns. Since the debut trailer, there has been lots of questions (and rage is some parts) regarding Dante... Hope this explains some...

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Developer Diary #3

Developer Diary #3 - Visualizing The Terrain

Devil May Cry: DmC - Debut Trailer

Capcom's new Devil May Cry game. A New taste, New style, New look, New Dante?

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Developer Diary #2

Developer Diary #2 - A Symbiotic Relationship

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - DLC

Some Enslaved downloadable goodies.

DLC - Ninja Monkey. One for the modern taste...


DLC - Classic Monkey. One for the Old School style...


DLC - Sexy Robot Trip. 2 is not enough, we need more skin. Literally, more skin...

Nice little Otaku area

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Developer Diary #1

As a game programmer I'm often interested in the blood, sweat and tears that goes into developing a game. In the next few posts, I would be uploading interview session on Enslaved: Odyssey to the West development diaries.

Development Diary #1 - Building Story & Character

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Some links related to the game:

Enslaved official site

YouTube

Facebook

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - E3 Trailer

This is the second game I've worked on.

Enslaved™: Odyssey to the West™ - Debut Trailer

Eternally Us

Sweet & touching. Simple & elegant.

Symphony Of Science

From http://www.symphonyofscience.com.
I never thought I could describe something as both geeky and cool at the same time but here it is:



"The goal of the project is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public, in a novel way, through the medium of music." - And that is way cool.

Runman

What can I say but, Cute.

Android 2.0 New Developer Features

Media Framework

• Revamped graphics architecture for improved performance that enables better hardware acceleration.

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth 2.1
• New BT profiles: Object Push Profile (OPP) and Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP)

New Framework APIs

• Includes several new developer APIs. 
• For an overview of new APIs, see the Android 2.0 version notes. 
• For a complete report of all API changes, see the API Differences Report.

Need For Speed: SHIFT & Transmitter from Regular John

The music video for single Transmitter from Aussie band Regular John, features footage from Need For Speed SHIFT. Pretty cool stuff.

Need for Speed: SHIFT - Performance Tuning

If you are into speed & cars, tuning is basically your baby step to awesomeness... Well here is a little taste to a sweet race.

Windows - Fooling around with Services

Creating A Service.

DON'Ts

1. Once a service has been installed, do not change the path of the executable (*.exe, *.dll, etc.) that the service is running. This is because in registry, the path of the executable is "hardcoded". Eg. C:\Folder\ServiceApp.exe. To view this, Run > regedit for the Registry Editor. \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\[ServiceName]\ImagePath

Running A Service.

A service can be started under a different user account (either on the local machine or on the domain).

This setting can be modified at

1. Control Panel > Administrative Tools > [Services | Component Services > Services]
2. Right click on the service name.
3. Log On tab.

If a service is running but there are error thrown in the ServiceMain function loop, then try troubleshooting the below:

1. The user may have access rights only to the particular service and not to make modifications to the Service Control Manager. Ensure that the Service to be ran does not try to modify system related settings or values. Eg. OpenSCManager(NULL,NULL,SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS) is not allowed. Try using the SC_MANAGER_CONNECT flag.

Setting Service Permission.

There is limited permission given to a normal user account to manipulate a service. Starting the service with Tools as a normal user privilege will cause an “Error 5: Access is denied.” message. Try troubleshooting with the below steps one at a time:

1. The service program (*.exe) is in a protected folder. If the service is started by a user that is not registered as the local machine user account, then the user may not have access to the folder to execute the service.
2. The user does not have rights to execute any service related actions. Please refer to SubInACL usage below. Eg. To check if the service exist using command line: subinacl.exe /service monkeylogging. If it does the result will display the service details and Permission ACS (PACE). Eg. To change the service permission using command line: subinacl.exe /service \\[ComputerName]\[ServiceName] /grant=[domain]\[username]=F. The service PACE should now show the new permission “/pace =[domain]\[username] ...”. Reference Setting Service permissions with subinacl.exe. SubInACL (SubInACL.exe) is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and from domain to domain. This is part of the Windows Resource Kits and by default will be installed in C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools. For command line arguments, refer to C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\subinacl.htm.

OR

1. How to grant users rights to manage services in Windows 2000 using Group Policy.

The Beauty of Need for Speed: SHIFT

Portraying the level of detail in both gameplay mechanics and visual art in Need for Speed SHIFT.

My New Ride

Anyone that knows me personally would think that my new ride would be something like the latest Honda Type-R. Well in the UK its not so cost effective to get petrol powered vehicle. Anyway this is my new ride, an electric powered Windsor LPX. Specification as below:~

• 6 speed shimano gears
• 200W intelligent brushless motor
• Throttle and pedal assist modes
• 26V/10.5Ah Lithium Polymer lightweight battery
• Charging time 2 - 4 hours (from flat)
• up to 30 mile range
• Top speed up to 15 mph

Need for Speed: SHIFT - Track Guide: London Circuit

At the time this post went online, I'm no longer living in London. However, during the time while I worked on NFS, I was there.

When you live in London, work in London and while working, playing NFS on the London circuit. Well you pretty much have a superbly cool thing going on for yourself. What more to say when the office is almost just on the next street where the "circuit" is. You will feel like you are right there overtaking the 188 bus.