{"id":77,"date":"2013-02-08T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2013-10-05T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T06:27:04","slug":"coalescence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/projects\/coalescence\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9_Y4tIWJhBk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Type:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Student<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a04\/2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a title=\"Coalescence Facebook Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CoalescenceGame\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>, <a title=\"Coalescence on the DigiPen Game Gallery!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digipen.edu\/?id=1170&amp;proj=25889\" target=\"_blank\">DigiPen Game Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Role:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Producer, Programmer (Graphics, Audio)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a lot of fun making Robotville Adventures in our freshman year, but we were disheartened that it really didn&#8217;t seem to make waves with anyone. \u00a0Few people had played it, and hardly anyone was even aware it existed. \u00a0And of course, all anyone could talk about from our class was Dig-N-Rig. \u00a0So, we decided to switch gears and make a much more serious game. \u00a0The result was Coalescence.<\/p>\n<p>This was a new experience for us in many ways. \u00a0We had a full game under our belts, we had a better understanding of what went into a game engine and tools, we had access to actual graphical APIs, and we could bring designers onto the team officially. \u00a0Those designers came up with a great concept, but one which we just couldn&#8217;t fully execute within the year. \u00a0The game we ended up with was pretty decent, but it pails in comparison to the game they had envisioned. \u00a0And again, we ended up with a game that we liked, but which few people were playing or aware of. \u00a0The best lesson I learned from it was to stop worrying about making anything for anyone else and just make the things that I liked. \u00a0And I think that the work I&#8217;ve gotten done shows for the better as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this was the start of my love affair with DirectX. \u00a0I built the graphics engine for Coalescence on DX 9 and while I didn&#8217;t put in a lot of flash like post processing, I learned a lot about what it took to build a solid, high performance rendering system. \u00a0After we wrapped up Coalescence, I felt really good about my progress and prowess in graphics programming, and it&#8217;s what led me to start work on the DX11 based engine I developed for Evac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Project Type:\u00a0\u00a0Student Release Date:\u00a0\u00a04\/2012 Resources:\u00a0 Website, DigiPen Game Gallery Role:\u00a0\u00a0Producer, Programmer (Graphics, Audio) Details: We had a lot of fun making Robotville Adventures in our freshman year, but we were disheartened that it really didn&#8217;t seem to make waves with anyone. \u00a0Few people had played it, and hardly anyone \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/projects\/coalescence\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P39ImV-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/294"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}