Abstract: This article is a briefly outlines how I created a font based on my handwriting (the reasons for which which will become evident in the future). It involves writing the characters on paper, scanning and converting to vectors in Illustrator and assembling in FontLab.

Abstract: There are several input API's to chose from when handling input for real-time applications. Different display libraries such as JOGL and LWJGL have completally different default input systems. This article covers some reasons as to why it is a good idea to use an input abstraction layer with these API's, and walks through the conversion of an example from AWT to HIAL based input.

Abstract: Warcraft III provides a versatile scripting engine that the developers utalised when creating the single player game. Due to the releasing of their map tool, several custom games have been created using the Warcraft III engine. It is a misnomer to call these creations "maps", as they are not merely new arenas to play Warcraft in, but have totally new gameplay.

Abstract: Many input systems use so called Input Events. That is, when input is detected, an event is "fired" and the program responds instantly. This is not normally desirable in games where the programmer often wants more control over when user input is acted upon. For renderers such as Xith3D were you can not modify the scenegraph while rendering, this is a larger problem. While one solution is not to use asynchronous input devices like these, they do have their benefits (one being ubiquity) and it is still quite possible to aggregate the events and poll them once per cycle anyway. This tutorial shows one way to poll the keyboard when using an event driven input system. The API used for the examples is Java's AWT.

Abstract: Computer programs typically use a Cartesian 3D Coordinate Space to represent virtual 3D worlds. Unlike our world were the up direction is simply the opposite direction of gravity, the 3D coordinate space has no such notion. Thus, when createing a 3D world, one of the three axes is picked to represent the hight (i.e. the up direction).