Monthly Archives: September 2007

Asteroids… well, kind of…

So, I’ve been trying to get my Asteroids game (the first game I wrote in my engine, back in 2002) working again.  Since I wrote it, I’ve done a few major changes, and not bothered to keep it up to … Continue reading

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Glass and Frustrated Total Internal Reflection

I spent some time playing around with a piece of normal glass, but it turns out that normal glass almost totally blocks near infra-red light! You can clearly see it’s green when viewed side on. However, it is possible to … Continue reading

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XNA and Aero in Vista

When I first got vista, I looked around for some articles on the Desktop Window Manager, since it can do cool things like real-time thumbnails previews of apps. So as I was exploring, I came across the actual API to … Continue reading

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