Oversteer: a new driving simulation project

On October 23 I started a new exciting project of a driving simulation for Windows and XBox360, named "Oversteer". After the first day, the oversteer project website received more than 300 visits and the most important italian portal about driving simulations drivingitalia.net posted an article in the news section and in the forum.

F1 Japan GP comment

Ferrari did a great mistake with the strategy: starting with intermediate tyres was a big risk and Ferrari's drivers went out of track several times during the safety car laps! The email from FIA which constrained teams to start with full wet tyres arrived to Ferrari after the GP start! But this fact is only an extenuating circumstance to the big mistake of starting with intermediate tyres. Kimi Raikkonen did not succeed to overtake Kovalainen in the last laps, losing the last chances to win the Drivers' Championship.

Fernando Alonso did a mistake due to the tenseness but also to some aerodynamics problems on his car, caused by a previous collision with Vettel. Lewis Hamilton was very able to manage such a difficult race but he was very lucky too because he had no damage in a collision with Kubica.

Vehicle dynamics for racing games

I found in the net an interesting tutorial (in english) about vehicle dynamics for racing games, written by Ted Zuvich. This tutorial is a good starting point to create a racecar simulation game.

download tutorial

My workshop at Webbit 2003

During Webbit , an international exposition of ICT technologies, which took place in Padova in May 2003, i did a workshop titled "3D Engine Architecture" for the italian website gameprog.it.

3D Engine Architecture Workshop slides

Introduction to SDL library

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a multiplatform multimedia library. It's very useful for writing 2D arcade games which can run on all the main platforms: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I wrote a little introductory article, which you can download from the link below.

article: Introduction to SDL

DirectX 9.0 Shaders articles

This is a little series of articles about shaders in DirectX 9.0 i wrote in italian language for an italian magazine.

article1: Introduction to Vertex Shaders
article2: Using shaders in Win32 applications
article3: Lighting with shaders
article4: Pixel Shaders architecture

PortalX Engine Tutorials

After i created the prototype of the PortalX Engine, i realized it could be a good starting point for explaining how portal rendering works. So i wrote a series of tutorials about the design and the implementation of a simple portal engine. These 6 tutorials are now available for download in pdf format. I apologyze with foreign people, but they are in italian language because i wrote them for an italian magazine.

PortalX Tutorials download:

tutorial 1: 3D engine architecture

tutorial 2: designing an OpenGL framework for the engine

tutorial 3: camera management

tutorial 4: game level architecture

tutorial 5: creating a custom file format for the level

tutorial 6: portal rendering