Rodney Rindels
Torqued: Game Developer and Entrepreneur
My Name is Rodney Rindels. I spend the majority of my time hacking on one project or another. My Current project Tri Poker Plus is my own version of Three Card Poker. It incorporates alot of elements found in online casino versions. I tend to write games to test interfaces out. This particular game is being built because I needed a resusable state engine and basic rules engine to add to my code repository. One of these days I might link all this code up and write something much more serious, but I enjoy writing 2d simulations more than getting frustrated with projects I can't handle, or have the budgets to complete.
You can see that in the types of projects I've listed below. I believe that finishing a game, regardless of its quality is more important than trying to write the next multi million dollar blockbuster. My advice to anyone new to game programming. "Whatever you start, make it realistic in terms of capability, and finish it. Period."
Carapace Games
Not all great minds think alike.
Greatest Games of All Time
2. Super Mario Brothers Series
3. Splinter Cell Series
Notable Garage Games Blogs
Garage Games Blogs
Many will enter but only one will exit...The contest is a Last Man Standing Behavior Competition that will encompass 4 rounds for a period of two to three weeks. The first three rounds will be 3 days each and the final round will consist of 5 days with 24-48 hours for judging in between each round ...
Hi,I know it's been a long time since I last told you something about my game Wheels. I had a few unfixable bus in the last version, so I decided to rewrite the game. A few weeks ago I purchased TGEA and started development. The Advanced from TGEA is totally true. It's quite complicateted to write g ...
Yes yes, I know it's already January, but I took a couple of weekends off for the holidays and I still wanted to post my December .plan.The past few weeks I've been working on the IndieZen core C++ plugin framework. I've finished two complete iterations and I'm pleased with the results, meeting mos ...
I've been busy overhauling the physics this last week. After some review, I decided to go with ODE for the core physics technology. It is robust, stable, performs well, and has a nice license. I also used the really great ODE wrapper in the Nebula Device 3. Of course, stuffing it into a Python m ...
So there's been these discussions in the forums lately about game ideas, and how they're stale. Agreed. And how games would benefit from more openness. Agreed. And then the discussion revolves around the "end-game" of that gameplay- what you can do:example: In my game, you'll be able to do ...
I should state for the record that i suck at textures. The whole concept is hard for me. So typically in my works i've had rather bland textures. I think the way you create textures is just too unnatural. So i decided to give 3d Painting a shot. I knew the concept of how it works and decided to just ...
My brother and I have been working on our game BATTLE!!! off and on since we purchased a copy of TGE in November of 05. We played with the idea for several months. Toying with things we had no idea how to do. We got bored after about three months and gave up. Then we picked it up again in the fall o ...
Intro:For the month of December 2007, I focused on getting pathing to work. I have already proven the humans can follow paths and wait, and appear to do jobs. So now I have done a proof of concept for the vehicles.Paths:Based on my previous blog I want to have trucks leave from a depot and resupp ...
This is a copy of a recent forum post. I wanna create more community involvement in the forums and help the site help itself grow. It's up to the users to make the torque products more user friendly. I going to start with the TGB but hopefully this becomes popular and we can expand this competiti ...
It's now 2008 and I cannot believe how time has flown by! I'm giving away a free art pack, which you can use in your game title for indie or commercial release providing you do not repackage/distribute the pack as your own, and a mention in your credits would be nice but not required. At Something2 ...
Games in Development
Downloads
Links to Some of my free games, or resources.
