Last Online: 12/5/08

Gary Preston

   
Freelance programmer moonlighting as an Indie game developer, serial tea drinker and guitar hero II addict.

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Systems I Own:                    
Don't Panic

Games I've worked on

Shelled!


Joshua: Shall we play a game?
Lightman: Global Thermonuclear War
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
Lightman: Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
...Loading Shelled!...

When turtles have a dispute there's only one way to settle it, NUKES. Shelled is a 3D tank artillery game featuring turtles, nukes and almost as many craters as the UK road system.


Saying this game rocks would be an understatement. Got a PS2 just for this :)
Interesting physics based platformer
It's.... Well, you'll just have to wait and see ;)
Some games really just stand head and shoulders above the rest, here's my list of memorable games.
So you want to be a pirate?
Perhaps my favorite multiplayer FPS. With Guass and bunny hop movement, no other game has yet come close.
I dread to think how many hours we spent playing this game over the LAN.
Just as awesome as the first
A true classic. `In space no-one can hear you scream...`

GameDev Blog

GID 23 took place a few weeks ago on the 11th/12th of August. It all began at approximately 11:01.34pm Saturday night, with nearly half of GID#23 already gone and yet I still had no idea what to do. Tom suggested I team up with him to do something similar to the original Teaminator. We had no [...] ...

First off, since I’ve not blogged for a while about anything Game Dev related, I thought I’d mention why. Myself and Tom Bampton have been working on a fun side project since late last year which we’re wanting to keep under wraps a little longer, however, there’s a ton of mat ...

Shelled! is finally out the door and it’s FREE! For those that don’t know what I’m talking about, head over to www.shelledgame.com to read about the game and download it. I played for a few hours the other night, with 5 other people, great fun. Very easy for the odd grudge match to ...

I guess the title of this post gives the game away, I've bought a GP2X For those who want the short review it's amazing... Before we get to the long drawn out first impressions, I wanted to mention that a community game contest has just begun, starting August 1st with the entry deadline 11th [...] ...

I've been coding a basic line buffer renderer for the XGS, I say basic because firstly its black and white only (well black and a fixed colour) and secondly its still in need of a good optimisation. The current code takes up just under one page ( ...