Sharif University is holding a two-day conference on games and game development. We (the guys at Fanafzar) are going to attend and some of us are going to have presentations and panels. There are also other interesting talks, mostly on the lighter side of technical issues. Here’s the web page for the conference, and here’s [...]
I had heard of the new Bioware RPG Dragon Age: Origins but I guess I had forgotten about it. Today, I stumbled upon a couple of reviews and some videos and now I’m in love with the game! It appears to be very long (which probably means a few months of gameplay for me; yay!), [...]
How many people (who doesn’t matter very much!) do I have to kill to get one of these babies?! And how many more must I slay to get a 3G network in Iran so the wireless facilities work too?! You know what, scratch that. As long as the built-in DRM misfeatures are not too draconian [...]
If you have been thinking that I’ve been too busy with work and that has been the reason that I haven’t been able to write anything, you’ve been wrong!
I’ve been holding a few moments of silence in respect to the 10th anniversary of the release of The Matrix, after which none of our lives where [...]
Amiross has posted a few lists of stuff that every programmer/engineer should read or know about. In the list of papers, I had only read one before (to my shame and dishonor!) which incidentally is an old favorite of mine, or more like a holy writ: Ken Thompson’s Reflections on Trusting Trust. Apparently, this speech [...]
Death… is in my blood.
Fate has brought me here.
I hope for nothing.
I fear nothing.
If you haven’t already seen the new God of War III trailer, cut off your pinkie and go watch it immediately (here’s the lower-resolution version if you are bandwidth-bound.) This is a great trailer, one that makes you lose sleep or want [...]
Paul Graham has written an interesting piece on academic credentials and their value in predicting a person’s performance, vs. her actual performance. He touches on many interesting points, some very familiar for me and us; some less familiar and more intriguing. It’s a must read for almost anyone and anywhere!
Paul Graham is an old-time hacker, [...]
There’s hardly anything sexier than a multicore CPU that I actually know how to program! Better yet, make that a “manycore” CPU.
Dual-core CPUs were cool, and quad-cores even cooler. But they were hardly enough to enable writing real fine-grained parallel programs. Recently Intel released “Core i7″ architecture CPUs, with four cores minimum and they all [...]
That’s my birthday, if you where wondering.
(Just a quick fact: this year, due to incompatibility of Gregorian and Persian leap years, and the relative inaccuracy of the former, my birthday was October 27th.
As a friend mentioned, my 28th birthday was not on the 28th of the month. In fact, as she again noted, the first [...]
Here are two higher-resolution in-game videos from Soshiant: one (~90MiB) and two (~86MiB).
Here’s another video (~71MiB) showing some characters from concept, through modeling, to animations.
Note that our engine is not even in alpha. There are many bugs present, most of with are level design bugs due to our rush for the exhibition (camera placements and [...]
Amir Hosein made a post to the OGRE showcase forums about Soshiant. The response is overwhelmingly positive. I’m hoping that our love, care and enthusiasm can fuel our effort for just another year or two, and I believe we will make it, and we’ll make it big time!
Refer to these two (one and two) blog posts by our fearless team leader “Amir Hosein“.
If you are lucky enough not to be pestered by a ridiculously ineffective, yet irritatingly irritating Internet filter, you will have a peek at some of our gameplay.
You should note that this is not even alpha software. We are a [...]
The Soshiant website just went live. (UPDATE: Here’s the English homepage.)
And again, we are pulling an all-nighter to ready everything for the exhibition that opens tomorrow. This will be the first time that the public sees our baby, and you could imagine how excited we are.
However, there’s still a long road to go for Soshiant [...]
: This is my wall. Feel free to write on it.
: First 
: People, 67% of you are absolute idiots!
: stuck in collision detection! what a shame I am to my programming environment.
: Weep blood for the people chained by tyranny...
: http://fa.wikisource.org/wiki/سیف_فرغانی_(قصاید_و_قطعات)/هم_مرگ_بر_جهان_شما_نیز_بگذرد
: شعری که میتواند شعار این روزهای ما باشد
: I pushed the button and elected him to office and a.. He pushed the button and he dropped the bomb. -Capital G by NIИ
: NO!
: Navigator: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 (Splashtop-v1.0.7.1)
: Here's a new (and incredibly irresponsible) idea: downing 6 shots of Smirnoff 50% and driving at 150kmph at 4AM!
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