Author Archives: Eric DeBrosse

About Eric DeBrosse

Lead developer of the Orion Engine.

Multithreaded Orion Engine

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve been working on making the Orion Engine more thread-safe. It’s desirable to be able to load a scene, while another is currently rendering. It turns out Direct3D 9 is not ‘thread-safe’. If you attempted to use our previous version … Continue reading →

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Terrain Scene Management

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Eric DeBrosse

The new terrain scene management features are working great! I’ve invested a lot of time and hard work to make this happen. I can now finally knock this huge milestone off the list. The custom client and server architecture is … Continue reading →

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Large Scale Terrain Grid

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve been working on some of the scene management features for Been There Game. Mostly, I’ve been working on terrain optimization. I currently have a ROAM algorithm that works very well. It renders a one square mile chunk of land … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Eric DeBrosse

Happy New Year from Mind Blown Games! I look forward to starting a fresh new year working on Been There Game. I expect good things to come soon!

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Upcoming Game Client Programming and Testing

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Eric DeBrosse

I plan to spend my time this holiday working on Been There Game. I’ve actually made great progress lately. For one thing, the bug that has been bothering me was finally resolved! Great way to end the year. Happy Holidays … Continue reading →

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Game Client Testing

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Eric DeBrosse

Still testing the Been There game client. I’m currently working on a minor bug that has been bothering me for a while. Other than that, things are still working out pretty well. I added a new feature to the game … Continue reading →

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Littletown

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Eric DeBrosse

After a couple of months, the Been There test world called “Littletown” is finally back up and running! I’ve been chasing down a bunch of little pesky bugs in the new servers. However, they seem to be running pretty smooth … Continue reading →

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Salted Hash

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Eric DeBrosse

Salted hash? No, I’m not talking about food lol. I’ve been working on the authentication methods between the client and the server. The stored passwords in the database are now hashed using a secure hashing algorithm. No more plain text … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Conformance Mode

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Eric DeBrosse

I decided to enable the Conformance Mode (permissive-) option that was introduced in Visual Studio 2017. It’s supposed to help me write code that is both more correct, and more portable. I found out quickly that it reports a lot … Continue reading →

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Client/Server Test Applications

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Eric DeBrosse

I made a couple of simple applications that I’ve been using to test the latest client and server code. It’s certainly helped me find and fix a few bugs already. I feel like the code is pretty solid now. I … Continue reading →

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