I've been into making video games every since I learned to program. This is the second version of a 3D engine I designed in high school with an emphasis on using a graphics API instead of writing everything in software.. The main problem with the Subterrania Engine (see below) is that it is a semi-software engine, and I was getting bogged down in the details of lots of tiny management things. So, with the release of the February 2006 DXSDK, I realized I was behind on my HLSL and a few other techniques. So I trashed all my old code, and have begun work on the Solace Engine. It will focus on using the Direct3D API as a leg-up into more advanced topics so I can focus more on learning and less on details of what I already know. I ported the Quake 3 BSP loading code from the Subterranea Engine below, and over the course of February (including many exciting all-nighters) it's grown leaps and bounds. Hopefully at some point I can get a Vertex Shader 3.0 compliant card and start playing around with that, but for now the plan is to just support VS 2.0.

A brief overview of planned features:

Per-Pixel Realtime Lighting

Shadow Volumes and Maps

Cube Mapping for Reflection Effects

Realistic Water

Lightmapping, Bumpmapping, and Specular texture effects

HLSL Vertex and Pixel Shaders (VS 2.0 for now) for per Entity and Face Effects

Shader Effects: Tone Mapping, Bloom, Glowing, Shadows,

Scene Management Techniques : (BSP/Octree, Frustum Culling)

Preliminary Screenshots: screenshot 1 | screenshot 2 | screenshot 3

The SCRYPTO (Steganographic CRYPTOgraphy) Protocol is a toy protocol I designed for secure communication on networks such as the Internet. It makes use of covert channels in the TCP protocol to steganographically transfer encrypted information. Steganography is the art of information hiding, while cryptography is more like information scrambling. Covert channels such as slack space in network data structures are prime candidates for covert transfer of data. paper and code

Around 1998 I started playing MUDs. It's like a WoW addiction, but it's a text adventure. After putting in over a month and a half of playtime on a MUD I frequented, I became interested in running my own MUD. I started one as a derivative of CircleMUD. I did all the coding, while a group of friends and I built the stories and the worlds of the MUD. AtriusMUD was started around 1999, and then shut down in 2001. In 2002 I started developing it again. To this day it's still online -- albeit without many users. The AtriusMUD Website

I'm an electronic music fanatic, and I become fixated with most anything that glows. Around 2002 a group of my best friends and I started painting my basement with UV reactive paint. 5 years later, the room is almost completely covered with designs and murals. A sound system, comfy couches, and DJ equipment make this room a relaxing hangout for me and my friends.

The website has pictures, videos, and more information : The Basement

I originally began developing this software based 3D rendering engine around 2001. It's named 'Subterrania' because that was the working title of an FPS puzzle game that David Cardwell, a good friend of mine, and I were dreaming of making a reality. It is capable of many aspects of common 3D engines, such as primitive drawing, mesh rendering, lightmapping, BSP tree scene management, primitive AI, and brush rendering. As a proof of concept, it is capable of loading and rendering Quake3 map files. screenshot 1 | screenshot 2 | screenshot 3

This 2D sidescroller-style videogame I wrote in 1999 is written almost as a pastiche of Streets of Rage, complete with a tile-based scene engine, animated character sprites, a game menu system, as well as game logic. However, it still remains an engine, and not a game due to a lack of art and level data. Sadly.. I am not an artist. Back when it was written, David Cardwell, a very close friend of mine and excellent artist was helping me with creating art until we lost interest in the project.

For a while, I was into the Sega Dreamcast homebrew scene. I wrote a pong clone for the Dreamcast that even displayed little animations on the controller's memory pack LCD screen. I wrote it in straight C with nothing but a framebuffer.

A website I designed and maintain for my brother Will who is a professional photographer. It features a mature content-management-system written from scratch in PHP with mySQL. It completely eliminates the need for management on my part, as my brother can maintain all the galleries on his site, upload, and edit new pictures by himself. Beyond this, it has a visitor-tracking and statistics module, also written from scratch, that gives him detailed information about his site traffic.

My brother is a REALLY good photographer, so you should go check his pictures out: www.shutterdream.net