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Saturday, September 04, 2004 5:51 PM

Terrarium: Did we do the right thing with the creature event model?

History Why did we use the eventing model? Well, because it made sense that creatures only needed to spend processing time on things they were curious about. It seemed like it might make things easier because a basic creature could hook only one event...
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Monday, March 29, 2004 1:02 AM

Terrarium: How do we punish creatures that take too much time?

Okay, so Darren Neimke thinks this deserves a blog entry and I think he is probably correct. The method for punishing creatures that take up too much time really isn't understood and the methods are actually somewhat complicated, so they deserve to be...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:52 PM

Taking a closer look at the power provided in stack based finite-state machines.

Abstract: I've blogged before on the various types of finite-state machines you could possibly use in the Terrarium, but I didn't really go into any depth on how you might take advantage of them. So I'm going to take this opportunity to talk about stack...
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Monday, March 22, 2004 6:20 PM

Terrarium: Enumerating collections with an outlook on how to speed up the process.

Okay, so I was going through some old source code, that I won't claim since I probably didn't write it based on the fact the as statement wasn't used (as soon as I found out about the as statement I made sure to take advantage of its usage whenever possible...
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Sunday, March 21, 2004 7:57 PM

Terrarium: A focus on game loops and scheduling

We've talked about the Terrarium game loop quite a bit in the past, mainly through channels that no longer exist (the GDN Forums). The primary reason we focused attention on the game loop was to help creature authors understand the order of processing...
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