Dev Blog

Shader Series - Screen Space Reflections

Screen Space Reflections are used in every engine these days. Games from The Witcher 3 to Fortnite all employ this effect, so it was natural that I wanted it in...

Mesh Generation in Metric Racer

Streamlining our Content Generation for Track meshes and World Items. Read more

Shader Series - Camera Motion Blur

Once I had the core mechanic of Metric Racer down, I tried a number of ways to increase perceived speed to make it seem that the player was moving faster than t...

Shader Series - Emissive Materials

Selective Bloom, Emissive Glow, Fake HDR, there’s a number of ways to call this, but with Metric Racer being a scifi racing game, there was a need to make...

3D Gizmo

Recently we heavily improved on our 3D Gizmo in the Vertices Engine and it’s in game editor. Initially it only allowed for 3D Translations, but with Metri...

Sharing Screenshots to Social Media in C# and Xamarin

A single class solution to a common stack overflow question; How to  share info (in this case a screenshot) to social media platform on your phone. Read more

Handling Mobile Ads in C# and Xamarin

Recently I put out two games, The Chaotic Workshop and Pew Zoom Boom, which both have with a free ad supported version. There’s lots of support and exampl...

Metric Racer - Ship Editor

Check out our new video of our Ship Editor for the Upcoming Metric Racer. If you like what you see give us a follow here, or on Twitter @VirtexEdge or on Instag...

Version 1.1 - The Chaotic Workshop

After some great community feedback, we’re happy to announce version 1.1 of The Chaotic Workshop! One of the biggest parts of this update is the Free Lite...

Extensible Game Localisation

There’s lots of text in a game, but there’s also a lot of languages in the world. Google Play and Apple both allow you to set properties for your ga...

Vertices Engine Optimizations - Encapsulating Post Processors

Vertices Engine Optimizations - Camera Frustum Culling

If a tree falls in the woods, but there’s no Camera Frustums around to see it, does it still get rendered? Check out through the link how we implement Cam...

Metric Dev - Ship AI

Getting AI’s Running in Metric Racer. RT gives a quick snap shot of all of it over at his dev blog.

Virtex Edge Dev Blog: Porting 2D Game Play

This week I’ve posted about the experience of porting over from XNA under Windows too MonoGame under both Windows and Linux within a 2D Game. Porting 2D G...

Welcome

Welcome to Virtex Edge Design, we are a software development company based out of Toronto Canada. We have a number of projects in the pipeline and will be makin...