#Coding

V0.9.2 - Cross Platform Track Sharing Out Now + Indie Racers Fest

Upgraded editor, upgraded sharing and upcoming Indie Racers event to look forward to! Read more

V0.9.1 - Steam Racing Fest, New Regions, Big Visual and Racing Improvements!!

Metric Racer is in the Steam Racing Fest and with it I’m releasing version 0.9.1! New Region, Big Visual Improvements and the first of many...

Metric Racer - Version 0.9 Released

To celebrate the first anniversary release of Metric Racer into Early Access, we’re closing the chapter on version 0.8 and releasing version 0.9.0! So what...

Track Editor Level Creation Jam!

Join the Metric Racer Community to create custom tracks in game! Join the developer of Metric Racer during the Track Editor Jam! Hang out on Discord, join...

V0.8.4 - New Racing Teams, Upcoming Track Editor Jam & Soundtrack Release!

Keeping with the 4-6 week release cadence, Version 0.8.4 is out now with some pretty large changes to some noticable and not so noticable parts of the...

Steam Workshop Support Now Available!

As Chaotic Workshop enter’s it’s final week of the Beta, we’ve updated it to version 1.1.7 with Steam Workshop Support. You can now upload and...

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...

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...

Pew Zoom Boom Now Released

Race to the stars and dodge an onslaught of incoming missiles before you become drifting star dust your self. Use shields, EMPs and Scatter Missiles to fend off...

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...

Screen Space Reflections and Terrain Editor

Snap shot of some of the new #VerticesEngine features. Terrain Editing along with Screen Space reflections are two of the recent additions to the 3D side of our...

Colour Index Encoding Selection in WebGL

Every 3D application will have user interaction to some degree. But with the CPUs and GPUs these days, it’s easy to have 100’s or 1000’s of en...

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.

Iris 3D Viewer

We’re excited to announce the release of the Chrome Extension for Iris 3D Viewer, our online 3D Exchange File Format viewer. The extension allows users to...

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...