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Polaris: Current development progress

A lot of people have been asking about Polaris lately, so I’m going to clarify what is happening and what needs to be done.

Current status:

Design:

Physics:

Gameplay/mechanics:

Optimization:

Testing:

Overall:

Notes:

Design: I still have to clarify a couple of game design issues, and I have yet to even design the artificial intelligence. Many of the other game elements have already been [...]

Minousoft on Twitter! (plus minor updates)

You can now follow Minousoft on Twitter. You’ll get the added benefit of receiving tweets when new posts are made!

Also, some minor updates…

A couple of bugfixes have been made in Polaris. Not much progress has been happening with Polaris lately, and it looks like it’ll take a while before it’s ready for release.
I’ve been working [...]

Polaris – New game in development

We’re working on a new game called Polaris, which will be a space travel simulator. Polaris will be my top development priority until June, when we expect to release a public beta. Note that I will probably spend less time improving the site until then.

The main goal of Polaris is to simulate the design ideas [...]

Sporkbomb

This just in: hxhl95 reports that Sporkbomb B somehow managed to corrupt the MFT (master file table) and boot records on his PC’s hard drive. Don’t try this at home.

Yesterday, I was a bit bored and decided to make a Windows forkbomb.

Definition: forkbomb»

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN ANY OF THE CODE EXAMPLES PRESENTED [...]

NtSetSystemPowerState Documented

Deep inside the Windows kernel, there crawls many, many undocumented functions. With Microsoft’s secrecy, developers have only been able to document most of them, but not all.

There is one function, however, that has been known to exist but is not documented anywhere (or at least not in any source I’ve seen). That function is NtSetSystemPowerState. [...]