Shawn's Homepage

Personal

About Me - in which I indulge my ego
Resume - wherein I describe my career
Music - for your entertainment, gratification, and delight
Photos - all hail the mighty mountain, Rainier!

Writings

Blog - game programming with the XNA Framework
Making Networked Games with the XNA Framework - DevTeach presentation (2007)
Understanding XNA Framework Performance - Gamefest presentation, video available here (2007)
Generating Shaders From HLSL Fragments - article for ShaderX3 (2004)
Detail Texture Motion Blur - article for ShaderX3 (2004)
Deferred Shading - GDC presentation (2004)
The Easy Route To Console Online - GDC presentation (2004)
Non-Photorealistic Postprocessing Filters in MotoGP 2 - article for ShaderX2 (2003)
Hemisphere Lighting With Radiosity Maps - article for Gamasutra and ShaderX2 (2003)
MotoGP Online - Gamasutra postmortem (2003)
Climax Brighton's Supertools - Gamasutra postmortem (2002)
Limping Through The Himalayas - trekking holiday in Nepal (1999)

Commercial Software

XNA Framework - game programming platform
MotoGP 2 - Xbox and PC racing (2003)
MotoGP Online - Xbox Live launch title (2002)
MotoGP - Racing game for Xbox and PC (2002)
XG2 - N64 racing game (1998)
Extreme G - earlier N64 racing game (1997)
Ultra Soccer - abortive attempt at an N64 soccer game (1996)

Free Software

Allegro - game programming library (I'm not much involved with this any more)
FED - the best text editor in the world :-)
Eric - calculator utility (2005)
Midi Fish - realtime MIDI data translator (2002)
Cupid - SpeedHack 2002 (team effort with Damyan and George)
Speed - Allegro SpeedHack 1999 competition entry
RTL - realtime lighting demo (1998)
EGG - scripting language for particle system effects (1998)
FreeBE/AF - hardware accelerated graphics drivers (1998, dead project)
TTF2PCX - grabs Windows fonts into bitmap files (1997)
Pattern Processor - algorithmic music generator (1995)
Marauder - space shooter game (1994)

Family

Doctor Clegg's Machete - by my father, John