July 2017

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# Thoughts after Slavic Game Jam 2017

Sun
30
Jul 2017

Slavic Game Jam 2017 ended today. I have not only given a talk as a representative of the sponsor company, but I was also allowed to participate in the jam itself, so I teamed up with my old friends, some new friends that I met there and we made a game :) The theme this year was "Unknown". Our idea was to create a game about a drone flying and exploring a cave. You can see it here: This Drone of Mine.

Screenshot:

There were 2 developers in our team, 3 graphical artists and one sound/music artist. We decided to use Unreal Engine 4, despite we had no previous experience in making games with this engine whatsoever, so we needed to learn everything during the jam. We didn't do any C++ - we implemented all game logic visually using Blueprints. We also set up Perforce for collaboration, so some of us needed to learn that as well (I am fortunate to already know this tool pretty well).

We didn't win or even make it to the second round, but it's OK for me - I'm quite happy with the final result. We more or less managed to implement our original idea, as well as show almost all the graphics, sound effects, music and voice-overs, so the artists' work is not wasted. It was lots of fun and we learned a lot during the process.

You can browse all games created during the jam here: Slavic Game Jam 2017 - itch.io.

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# Slavic Game Jam 2017 and my talk

Wed
26
Jul 2017

There are many game jams all around the world. Global Game Jam is probably the biggest and most popular one, but it is a global event that happens at different sites. This weekend Slavic Game Jam takes place - the biggest game jam in Eastern Europe, happening in just one site in Warsaw, Poland.

I will be there not only as a participant, but I will also give a talk, because AMD is a sponsor of the event. My talk will be on Friday at 2 PM. Its title is "Rendering in Your Game - Debugging and Profiling". I will provide some basic information and show some tools useful for analyzing performance of a game, including live demo. This information may be useful no matter if you develop your own engine or use existing one like Unity or Unreal. If you have a ticket for the event (tickets are already sold out), I invite you to come on Friday earlier than for the official start of the jam.

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# Vulkan Memory Allocator - a library on GPUOpen & GitHub

Tue
11
Jul 2017

Vulkan is hard. One of the difficulties is the responsibility of a developer to manually manage GPU memory. Various GPU vendors expose various set of memory heaps and types and you need to choose right ones. It is also recommended to allocate larger memory blocks and assign parts of them to individual buffers and images. Now there is a library that simplifies these tasks - a one that I developed as part of my job duties. It has just been announced on GPUOpen blog and published on GitHub:

It is a single-header C++ library with a simple C Vulkan-style interface documented using Doxygen-style comments. It is available on MIT license.

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