Author Archives: Allen Chou

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Debug Draw with Cached Meshes & Vertex Shaders in Unity

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Allen Chou

This post is part of my Game Programming Series. Complete source code for the debug draw utility and Unity scene for generating the demo animation above can be found on GitHub. Here is a shortcut to the debug draw utility … Continue reading →

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Timeslicing Batched Algorithms in Games

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Allen Chou

This post is part of my Game Programming Series. The source files for generating the animations in this post are on GitHub. 本文之中文翻譯在此 (by Wayne Chen) Timeslicing is a very useful technique to improve the performance of batched algorithms (multiple … Continue reading →

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Game Math: Curve Approximation via Curve “Projection”

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Allen Chou

This post is part of my Game Math Series. Also, this post is part 2 of a series (part 1) leading up to a geometric interpretation of Fourier transform and spherical harmonics. Drawing analogy from vector projection, we have seen … Continue reading →

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Game Math: “Projecting” a Curve onto Another

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Allen Chou

This post is part of my Game Math Series. Also, this post is part 1 of a series (part 2) leading up to a geometric interpretation of Fourier transform and spherical harmonics. Fourier transform and spherical harmonics are mathematical tools … Continue reading →

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我的Uncharted 4開發雜記

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Allen Chou

本文屬於My Career系列文 Here is the original English post. 本文之英文原文在此 註：為方便複製至PTT，本文排版採BBS格式，不習慣者請見諒 Uncharted 4已經發售，終於可以分享我負責開發的部分了 我主要是負責單人模式的夥伴AI、多人模式的戰友AI、還有一些遊戲邏輯 沒有收錄到最終遊戲的部分和一些瑣碎的細工我就略過不提

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A Brain Dump of What I Worked on for Uncharted 4

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Allen Chou

This post is part of My Career Series. 本文之中文翻譯在此 Now that Uncharted 4 is released, I am able to talk about what I worked on for the project. I mostly worked on AI for single-player buddies and multiplayer sidekicks, as … Continue reading →

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我的秘境之旅

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Allen Chou

本文屬於My Career系列文 Here is the original English post. 本文之英文原文在此

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My Uncharted Journey

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Allen Chou

This post is part of My Career Series. 本文之中文翻譯在此 Note: This post was written before Uncharted 4 went gold, so it might contain tones or implications that Uncharted 4 hasn’t gone gold yet. Sorry for the confusion. I started working … Continue reading →

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DigiPen: 我的遊戲學校

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Allen Chou

本文屬於My Career系列文 Here is the original English post. 本文之英文原文在此

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DigiPen: The Game School I Went To

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Allen Chou

This post is part of My Career Series. 本文之中文翻譯在此 Disclaimer: This post is all about my personal experience with DigiPen and is in no way intended to represent anyone else’s experience or opinions. I went to DigiPen Institute of Technology … Continue reading →

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