Point Lights

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Joey Betz

I decided that I wanted to make a point light shader this weekend in Pixel Bender so I looked up some algorithms and came up with this. Nothing that hasn’t been done before, but I think I’d like to make a game that utilizes it. Like cave diving or something where there are few light sources. We’ll see…

Saw a few movies this weekend as well; Cowboy Bebop and The Evil Dead. For starters, Cowboy Bebop was pretty good. Animations were great, music track was even better, and the story doesn’t disappoint. An all around good movie. The Evil Dead was also great. I remember seeing bits and pieces a long time ago and hearing about the great gory scenes in it from somewhere so I’d thought I’d give it a full watch. I enjoyed more than I thought I would. I think the slight unintended humor coupled with claymation gore was what made it so great.

About Joey Betz

My name is Joey Betz. I'm a Flash Game Developer based in Orange County, CA and I work for Armor Games. I created this blog to both showcase some of my work and vent out a few extra miscellaneous things I come across in my daily life.
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7 Responses to Point Lights

  1. Josh says:
    July 28, 2009 at 12:50 am

    Hey Joey I was looking at your profile on Armor Games and it said you liked to teach programming. So i was thinking maybe you could teach me. I have been wanting to learn programming for about 6 months now but i just cant seem to teach myself and i think i just need an experienced person to help me out. Please reply either with a yes or no either one is fine. Thanks for taking your time reading this :D .

  2. admin says:
    July 29, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Sure dude. My email is joey_betz@yahoo.com. Ping me and we’ll chat about code stuff. I would suggest getting some books first so you have a reference point as well. If you are looking to learn Actionscript 3 I recommend Essential Actionscript 3.0 and Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook as they are very detailed.

  3. John says:
    July 30, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Beautiful code :]

  4. jsalazar92 says:
    August 2, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Hi Joye, you definetely have amazing talent on this, i personally cant stop playing Phage wars! jaja, you made my day while i had to wait some hours for a call….Thanks,

  5. Azulito says:
    August 11, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Hey Joey, thanks for the pointer on Essential AS 3.0 I’ll be sure to check it out.

    I’ve always wanted to code with AS, but never found any decent resources to do so, so I learnt a few web languages instead such as PHP, XHTML, CSS, ect.

    Can you give me some pointers on AS? :3

    ~Karlos

  6. justwannachat says:
    August 21, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Waaah, it’s beautiful.
    Do you think that’s possible to do something like a screensaver or a “wallpaper” in AIR, with this?

  7. Dandruff says:
    August 29, 2009 at 12:27 am

    That’s cool.. wish i can do that :)