Category Archives: Ambienome

Lately, I’ve been focusing so much on Common Lisp itself, that I have barely spent any time on Ambienome, the whole reason I’ve been learning it. It has been so long that I can barely remember what I was working on. (Physics engine integration, I think?) That’s no good, so I wanted to take some [...]

The past several weeks have been a struggle, productivity-wise. First, I spent quite a lot of time working on proto-slots. That may seem productive, but the amount of effort I put into polishing and documenting it was way out of proportion to the benefit I would get from it. I think I did a pretty [...]

I got a bit sidetracked while working on creature components, but still ended up making important progress for the overall system. First, I created a new transform class by abstracting and cleaning up the shape class’s position, angle, and size attributes and methods. I also created a transformable “mixin” class, which can be used by [...]

Yesterday, I completed the code to generate triangle and circle meshes: The triangle looks like it’s too small, but it fits perfectly in the circle, and the circle fits perfectly in the square. Yay, geometry! Of course, when building a creature, they can be scaled to whatever size you like, and the algorithms can produce [...]

For the past several weeks, I’ve been learning “modern” OpenGL programming practices, by which I mean using a GLSL shader pipeline with vertex and fragment shaders. Even before starting Ambienome, I was already somewhat familiar with the old OpenGL “fixed function pipeline”, using glBegin/glEnd, glColor, glVertex, etc. Ambienome is going to be visually simple enough [...]

I’ve started a new project: Ambienome. This is a game (or, rather, a toy) I’ve wanted to create for years — I blogged about it in May 2007 and November 2009 — and now I’m finally making a serious attempt. I’ll be blogging about my development progress, both to solidify my ideas by putting them [...]

Lately, I’ve been having visions of a game I’ve been wanting to make for years, which I call Ambienome, a pseudo-portmanteau of Ambient (as in ambient music) and Anemone (the tendrilled sea creature). Both the concept and the name are inspired by Toshio Iwai’s Electroplankton. Like Electroplankton, Ambienome would be more of a musical toy [...]