Despite my lack of posting, work on my ambient game continues.  I'm working 60 to 90 hour weeks these days so I don't have a lot of free time for things like blogging, games, or sleep.  Anyways, here's an updated screenshot from the game, complete with my first pass at rendering "ghosts".  I say first pass in a very literal sense, as they are being rendered to an accumulation buffer which I haven't recombined into the scene yet.  I'm still dealing with all manner of depth buffer issues, ranging from precision & performance to simple order of operations.   

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So my remaining graphics dev work items are:

• New Bloom Shaders
• Corona Post process effect
• Accumulator add-in
• Final Skydome with clouds and moon
• Arena border clouds & fog
• Particle Effects Engine
• HDR/tone-mapping investigation
• Local light
• Additional Lamp Geometry and lighting shaders
• Text effects engine