I introduced in Riven X 0.4 arbitrary engine variables. The intent is for them to control various behaviors of the engine as development continues. Engine variables are categorized according to the sub-system they affect, and can have any arbitrary numerical, alphanumeric or boolean values.
At this time, there’s only one category, “rendering”, which contains only one [...]

Update: Riven X 0.5 is now available.
There it is at last, a new binary release of Riven X. This new version is of course far beyond the previous release. Some highlights:

Basic hotspots are working (mouse up and mouse down), which means you can walk around the islands, flip switches, push buttons, and so on.
Major improvements [...]

MPQFS is implemented in Objective-C in order to interface with MPQKit. However, because the FUSE user-space library (provided by MacFuse) is a C library, I had to write a thin wrapping layer to convert the C callback functions required by FUSE to Objective-C method invocations. This layer is simplistic enough that I had to disable [...]

Quick note to those interested by MPQFS. I’ve made available version 0.3.3 (0.3.2 was released silently earlier today). The two updates fix a small number of annoying issues, such as read-only files and folders copied from an MPQFS filesystem, and include a work around for a bug in Core Foundation which would result in a [...]

From eastern Canada, I’d like to wish all my readers, however few or many you may be, a happy new year. This will be quite a big one for me, with both my graduation in software engineering and my humble beginnings at Apple, Inc. I hope also it will mark the end of some of [...]