Well, here's the deal... I haven't updated the site in far too long. There was some interesting discussion going on for a while on the message board, but that has fizzles (mostly due to the fact that I have not updated the diagrams.)

I'm sorry to say that this isn't going to be much of an update either. School has been pretty crazy lately with final projects/papers and now exams. I only have 1 week left, though, so hopefully things will improve once I go home for the summer.

The other reason I have been a little reluctant to post even the beginnings of some new UML diagrams is that I don't really have enough of a feeling for how the ideas should be molded into classes and such yet. I've decided to try and switch to OpenGL/GLUT so that the progams are as platform independent as possible, and right now I'm working on a simple tetris game. I plan on trying to apply the GPI ideas I have at this point to the tetris game and so that I can try and figure out what the best approach will be. Once I have something a little more interesting I'll be able to post new diagrams along with the source to the game which should make it much easier to discuss good/bad design ideas.

Until then, (a couple weeks) take care,

Chip

The GPI project is undergoing a major change! I received a wonderful suggestion about a new direction to move this site in and I have decided to run with it. Basically I realized that there are a LOT of sites/articles/etc out there about how to do the graphics/sound/AI/networking/etc for a game but there are few if any good resources for developing the actual game framework that binds these elements together. I have decided to develop my site to fill this void and hope that it will end up being a valuable resource for many beginning to intermediate game programmers!

For more information check out the new introduction section.