Andreas Reich

Student Game Developer

July 8th, 2011

“Flightsim” teamproject for “Grundlagend der Computergrafik”

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Last week ended a small competition in my university lecture “basics to computer graphics”. After a semester of learning about the basics of computer graphics and the fundamental use of OpenGL we got the chance to use our knowledge for a small project – the best projects should gain a small bonus for the upcoming exam. The topic: Flightsimulator
After only 10 days (announcement was 2 weeks before evaluation) my team consisting of two other fellow students and me was awarded for the best one of seven submitted works – as aimed from the early beginning on :D

If you like, you can download it here (19mb zip, win) – source code included. A PDF with additional information  is enclosed (in German).

Even if I gained only minor technical knowledge (because of preceding experiences in computer graphics) this project was very valuable: The teamwork felt tremendous to me. Though we had entirely different skills in graphics and programming we synergized in a very effective way. Therefore it was also a funny and enriching experience.

Thank you Patrick & Florian :)

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May 29th, 2011

Link collection is back!

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My little development link archive is back!

If somebody knows a simple way how I could improve the layout and appearance of the generic Firefox bookmark html export please let me know – reorganising by hand is terrific…

Hopefully there’s something interesting for you. Have fun :)

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May 21st, 2011

New Website

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Obviously you found my new website :)

It was time for me to break away with my blog site “Wuempftlbruempftl”… I met nearly nobody who could speak out the name, so maybe you have more luck with my real name.
Apart from this the new homepage should be more a portfolio website than a blog because as you can see I write mainly at goldenvertices.de

Maybe you miss the old link archive – let me know if this is the case. Currently I don’t have the motivation to keep it up to date (links are always dying so fast …), but your interest can be an argument :)

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February 20th, 2011

Acagamics

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I’am a member of the IGDA-Club Acagamics :)
Acagamics is a student game development club in at the Otto-Von-Guericke-University Magdburg. The club organizes optionally but also some scored  game development workshops, lectures, meetings and more.

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January 26th, 2011

Link Collection

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Hey out there.
Hm well it’s been a looooong time. The bare fact is that I haven’t anymore the time and motivation to write articles on a regular basis.
Currently the most time consumes university, Golden Vertices (you guys rock! :D ), Acagamics Game Development Workshop (you guys rock too :) ) and in the vacation I want to begin another small additional programming project – an old dream, something I want to program for years. (you will see)

But hey I’ve got something new for you :) :
In all these years of hobby programming I gathered a lot of Links to many useful articles. It’s been overdue to rearrange and sort them long ago.
So I thought to myself, why not publish them – there are so many good ones that are difficult to find, maybe someone like you, reader, need them.

And here is it, my small collection. I also wrote a description to some of them :)
I plan to update it from time to time.

Please keep in mind that my selection is completely subjective.

Wümpftlbrümpftl

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November 15th, 2010

Victory at MB21

1 Comment, CuBrush, Projects, RealLife, by Wuempftlbruempftl.

Last weekend the MB21 Media Contest took place in Dresden. Maybe you remember the article of the nomination.

Sadly I didn’t win the contest…. no, I won twice :D
CuBrush and Xrodon won the first place in the age category 16-21.

Thanks to all guys out there who helped with their advices and  motivated me :) . Without you, I had given up long ago.
Looking at Cubrush my very special thanks
to Meesh who made the music for CuBrush – without you, there wouldn’t be the real “cube-feeling” (and maybe the instruction had spelling mistakes like my blog articles :D ),
to Rameos who stand by in some design issues  – thanks for the awesome logo in 1.1 !!!,
to my ex-girlfriend who influenced the game design with her bright mind,
to Marco for his ideas and motivation to the 1.1 patch.

A German article about the victory of Xrodon at MB21 will arrive soon.

UPDATE

The original Laudatio of the jury:

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November 15th, 2010

From now on in English

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Yes you read right! From this on I will write all articles in English. This has two simply reasons: First I want to practise my English skills, second more people can read my writings. In view of the programming orientated content, this shouldn’t be a big barrier for the most reader ;)
By improving my English skills, I want to make a further step into a carrier as professional game developer (or in general software developer).

Don’t hesitate to point out my mistakes, I’m eager to improve my skills :)

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November 12th, 2010

Eil-Bugfix für Cubrush

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Gerade ist mir noch ein massiver Fehler in der neuen CuBrush-Version aufgefallen: Der Sieger wurde meistens falsch angezeigt.

Mit der Version 1.11 sollte dies nun behoben sein.
Paket in der Downloadsektion ist ausgetauscht worden. Wer sich nicht alles neu runter laden will, kann sich hier die exe-Datei zum Austauschen beziehen (sonst hat sich nichts geändert).

An Xrodon II gehts übrigens auch weiter, siehe GV-Blog ;)

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November 7th, 2010

CuBrush 1.1 – Patch Release

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Motiviert durch die Nominierung beim Wettbewerb MB21 und einem begeisterten Kommilitonen, hab ich mich noch einmal an das gute alte CuBrush gesetzt und einige Fehler ausgebessert und sogar noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten hinzugefügt.
So stolpre ich bei der Vorstellung beim MB21 wenigstens nicht über alte Macken die ich schon gar nicht mehr sehen kann ^^

Zum Beispiel hat CuBrush jetzt endlich ein Logo im Menu – Danke Rameos! Zudem gibt es 2 neue Karten die ich dem bereits genannten Kommiltonen zu verdanken habe.

Aber überzeugt euch einfach selbst:

Download Version 1.1(1)

(20Mb selbstentpackendes Archiv)

Das dürfte das Erste mal gewesen sein, dass ich ein seit längerem fertig gestelltes Projekt Patche :D
Erfeulicherweise könnte ich mit dem “alten” Code tatsächlich noch gut arbeiten :)

Der vollständige ChangeLog:

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October 21st, 2010

Deutscher Multimediapreis MB21

1 Comment, CuBrush, Projects, by Wuempftlbruempftl.

Heute landete eine höchst erfreuliche Mail in meinem Postfach – um einen Ausschnitt davon zu zitieren:

Du bist mit „Xrodon“ und “CuBrush” als Preisträger für den 12. Deutschen Multimediapreis „MB21 – Mediale Bildwelten“ nominiert und damit herzlich zum MB21-Festival vom 12.-14.11.2010 in die Scheune Dresden eingeladen.

WUHU! Grund zum Feiern, mehr gibt es da nicht zu sagen :D
Deutscher Multimediapreis MB21

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