About Me
Hello, my name is Alex Schearer. I grew up in New York and currently live in Seattle. I am a software engineer who works on Microsoft Exchange by day and indie games at night, and this is my blog about game development.
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Steering Behavior: In Progress
Lately I’ve been caught up doing normal things like playing video games (instead of writing them), hiking, having BBQ’s etc. Finally, though, I found some time to work on the steering behaviors for Null Op. I thought I’d share my progress with you guys, video showing off the different stages of development for the arrival [...]
Crash for Flash: A Physics Engine
Recently I started working on Null Op again. One of the new things I wanted to add to the game was steering behaviors for the viruses. In order to implement them, though, I need some way to find a virus’ neighbors, check for nearby obstacles, etc. To accomplish this I decided I’d use the Crash [...]
Funding Games via Donations
The other day I came across an interesting blog post about game piracy. In a nutshell the authors of an indie game claim that they are seeing 95% of the high scores they collect reported by stolen copies of the game. Given such a huge rate of piracy I started to think about what alternative [...]
Steering Behavior: Flocking et al