Chronicles: Game Development, Game Engines & Retro Futuristic Steampunk Musings.

Cogwheel Chronicles – Teaser Trailer

2 December 2017
Volumetric Height Based Fog

Fog is a very important game component for Cogwheel Chronicles – it is almost a character in the story itself. Up until now though the fog has been pretty boring, so have now implemented a swirling height based fog effect into the game. Once you’re up in the skies on your airship / biplane /…

15 November 2017
PBR & Dragons

To move to PBR or not to move to PBR that is the current question …. Physically Based Rendering is pretty awesome – all major game studios and game titles use it – but they of course often have hundreds of millions to spend and many dedicated artists, programmers, designers etc. What does a severely…

5 October 2017
Anaglyph 3D

Old school 3D using red/cyan spectacles (remember those) is making somewhat of a comeback – OK not really – VR is the new 3D I know – however I actually like the affect (probably as it brings back memories of youth) and a pair of decent stereo 3D anaglyph glasses is very cheap. Probably just make…

12 September 2017
The Cogwheel Chronicle – Issue 693

14 July 2017
The Cogwheel Chronicle – Issue 692

7 July 2017
Isaac Illmar Swimming

30 June 2017
Know Your Killer Robots

26 May 2017
NSA Exploits & Ransomware

Well this blog trundled on quite nicely for 5 years or so then got bush-wacked by a server failure (total data loss – not backed up – I know, I know) about this time last year. Last week the NSA exploits that the hacking group ‘ShadowBrokers’ stole and released into the wild, together with a…

26 May 2017
Mr Hyde

Does a top hat make a retro Victorian Hulk? Not sure if Mr Hyde is destined for evil or good within the Cogwheel Chronicles universe … he’s looking a bit green maybe?

2 October 2016