Author Archives: Eric DeBrosse

About Eric DeBrosse

Lead developer of the Orion Engine.

Synthesizer Finally Repaired!

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

After over 9 weeks waiting for warranty repair, a ridiculously long time, I finally got my Roland Fantom G6 back! I sure hope I don’t ever have to return it for repair any time soon. Let me tell you, it’s … Continue reading →

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The 2008 Ohio Blackout

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

Millions of people lost power in my area. Since I didn’t have a power generator, this slowed down my game development for a bit. The power was out at my house for at least 4 days! I had to throw … Continue reading →

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Roland Keyboard Warranty

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

My loyalty to Roland keyboards since the early 80’s is starting to quickly fade. In fact, my next keyboard probably won’t even be a Roland at all; I’ll probably look at the new Korg workstations instead. I took a huge … Continue reading →

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Playing The Game

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

The network tests with my online game are going pretty well. The patch system seems to be working great. All of the clients are staying up to date. I’ve made some changes to the launcher, to make it more obvious … Continue reading →

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The MMORPG Test

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve been working on a massively multiplayer online role playing game similar to Turbine’s Asheron’s Call game. I tested my game client and servers recently with a friend of mine that lives in North Carolina. We seemed to be getting … Continue reading →

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Making some great progress!

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

The new Orion Gatekeeper server that I talked about a little while ago is now up and running! I’ve actually made lots of overall improvements to the Orion Engine network code over the last week or two. The code now … Continue reading →

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The Busted Display Update

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

The service center working on my Roland Fantom G6 display problem called the other day. After nearly a month already, Roland is telling them it’s still going to be another 3-4 weeks to get my replacement part. This is extremely … Continue reading →

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Still Waiting For Synthesizer Repair

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

I’m still waiting to get my new Roland Fantom G6 back from repair. The service center is still waiting for Roland to ship them the replacement part. That sucks, because I want to play my keyboard pretty bad. I wrote … Continue reading →

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Orion Gatekeeper

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

I purchased another domain name, orionengine.net, which will be used by our network operations center to host the Orion Gatekeeper daemon. This network service will be used to provide IPs for any of the available authentication/authorization servers on our network. … Continue reading →

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Another New Animation Scene Object

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve created another new animation scene object. This one uses the same advanced animation controller code that was recently integrated with the mesh object. The new scene object can be used to animate any child object in the scene, i.e. … Continue reading →

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