http://www.pauliehughes.com/index.htmlSite UpdatesenPaul HughesCopyright 2006 Paul Hughes2006-12-12T16:17:15+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:26:09 +0100Paul HughesBlog2006-12-12T16:17:15+00:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/a3aa398996cbb9a0b09aa36463291370-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/a3aa398996cbb9a0b09aa36463291370-15.html#unique-entry-id-15seriously wicked IP.

Oh yeah, and we're also hiring! Any programmers and animators out there why not hit out web sites www.embryonicstudios.com and www.t-tales.com for details. Great company, great people, great projects and job security - c'mon what are you waiting for!

Have a great Christmas everyone!]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-10-08T13:41:53+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/8d16cf9cde3860bc401d7e69be4fbf0c-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/8d16cf9cde3860bc401d7e69be4fbf0c-14.html#unique-entry-id-14Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. You can also get to the detail pages from the My Games thumbnails.

There's tonnes more to come over the next couple of weeks - and more stuff (finally) on actually writing your own games!

I've also put up the Z80 source code to Mr Do! on the Gameboy, as Jofffa, the original author, has decided to put it up on his website. I merely finished the product off and debugged it prior to shipping - I found it lurking on a floppy disk the other month and so sent it to Joffa. As Joff is happy to put it up, I figured I'd do the same.]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-08-08T18:30:25+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/55c3a5b3a5df09ed9a35c6e91dd3480e-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/55c3a5b3a5df09ed9a35c6e91dd3480e-13.html#unique-entry-id-13CHEATS in some of the games I've worked on. Its all a bit, well, perfunctory at the moment, but I'm going to start adding more in depth looks into the development of some of the better games (!). As its the 10th Anniversary of Privateer 2, and the chaps on the Wing Commander Combat Information Centre are planning on doing something to mark the occasion, I thought I'd dig a few bits and bobs out and start with that. Stay Tuned.]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-07-16T18:13:07+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/713c8acce9e009f411a11f5b12c6329b-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/713c8acce9e009f411a11f5b12c6329b-12.html#unique-entry-id-12
1) Buy a nice shiny iMac (with Intel Core Duo of course)
2) Buy Rapid Weaver
3) Buy every RapidWeaver Plugin that Your Head software makes.

The Your Head plug-ins take Rapid Weaver from Insanely Great, to "REALLY Insanely Great"

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There's nothing quite like the ability to engineer a project on six very different platforms using essentially the identical code, art and audio assets - and it just works. I say "essentially" - the one caveat is that whilst everything does work straight out of the box, what you don't want is your product to look identical on every platform (basically aiming for the lowest common denominator). To counter this we have a "fork" in our shader implementation/preview pipeline (essentially its a parallel shader cascade) that allows the artists to set up different levels of shaders depending on the target platform - its up to our graphics guys and technical artists to ensure that "under the hood" the target platform implements the most optimal and graphically rich interpretation of the artist's desired shader.

Tune in again real soon....]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-05-03T10:25:16+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/5bb6a7f5d33e2a0641c10eb7e0927487-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/5bb6a7f5d33e2a0641c10eb7e0927487-9.html#unique-entry-id-9Well, it was time for a change of scenery - so I've setup a new indie games studio with my old developer mates from EA Manchester and the Warthog days called "Embryonic Studios". Keep an eye out, as we should have some big announcements coming out soon. This is going to be a real blast!





]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-04-12T17:03:03+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/e04417ca2005007676dea2fff9a394e7-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/e04417ca2005007676dea2fff9a394e7-8.html#unique-entry-id-8SID music on the Commodore 64. It contains info on how the drivers of the time made the funky sounds and has links to the DOWNLOADS page were you can get sample code for the emulators along with the source code for the music driver.]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-04-07T15:39:31+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/aa12d79ce49c7d8169a4488e93dffb95-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/aa12d79ce49c7d8169a4488e93dffb95-7.html#unique-entry-id-7Freeload" or "The Ocean Loader" that everyone called it. Lots of people have asked about how it worked, what it did, so after answering the same questions for various magazine articles I thought I'd write the definitive guide to Freeload on the C64.

Warning - It's extremely nerdy :-)]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-04-03T23:13:21+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/c573c3daa65b49d2e026ed34f59f92fd-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/c573c3daa65b49d2e026ed34f59f92fd-6.html#unique-entry-id-6]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-04-02T22:29:39+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/e5186f0c174fdfbee3e757751dc19dee-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/e5186f0c174fdfbee3e757751dc19dee-5.html#unique-entry-id-5GAME DEVELOPMENT section. Added some more WARTHOG PICTURES (and got around to annotating them too), along with some more pictures from the OCEAN days,]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-04-01T23:12:48+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/ac38b98b93147cd501de2d462febd4cb-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/ac38b98b93147cd501de2d462febd4cb-4.html#unique-entry-id-4HOMEPAGE, along with a starting swipe at the master LINKS page itself. I've added links to key game development sites (including games industry job searches), useful links for programmers and links to some of the top flight developers in the UK. There's more categories and links to come. Enjoy!
]]>Paul HughesBlog2006-03-26T16:40:49+01:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/1b368913e7e5c3a2f790d9075d5a0af5-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/1b368913e7e5c3a2f790d9075d5a0af5-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Paul HughesBlog2006-03-23T16:49:18+00:00http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/839863c3be92c6e6e87ceee4f043e471-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.pauliehughes.com/page5/files/839863c3be92c6e6e87ceee4f043e471-2.html#unique-entry-id-2ABOUT ME section - it covers 1981 to 1997 thus far - but there's far more juice to come!
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Mumble, mumble, grumble, curse....
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