GDNet: Tales from Journal Land

Man, a whopping 21 entries makes up this week's wrap-up. A ton of project updates are the main feature this week, along with some programming tricks, industry thoughts, a US Air Force Academy cadet, and ways for you to help us shape the fifth coming of GDNet.

From the Staff

* Gaiiden's Scroll - the weekly sitrep including new articles, a Facebook page and 2 things you can do to help make GDNet better


Project Updates

* Tool of Procrastination - showing off some engine work, with Lua and PhysX integration

* Any Colour You Like - if you can't get enough of graphing calculator madness, benryves has plenty more eye candy for you

* Oddgames development journal - a quick update and latest screen cap of the Nimrod Isometric Editor

* mittentacular - mittens talks about his newest project, using Havok and OGRE for some 3D physics-based simulation

* Journey to the Ancient Galaxy - details about the gameplay, thoughts on what makes the game fun after some playtesting

* Stompy's Gamedev Journal - chucking trash cans is now possible in Fists of Justice

* Sssssssssss! - Selkrank renames Arty to Artillery Brawl and releases code

* Odorless Entertainment - bladerunner627 takes some time to explain the purpose of his engine and using the Quake 3 BSP

* Bennu - Demosthenes steps through how he created a frog character for his game

* Journal of EasilyConfused - EasilyConfused talks about his WIP 3D level editor

* The Link to the Journal - Twisol posts some code and pictures in his update on Cripes


Game Dev Stuffs

* Journal of dbaumgart - your weekly dose of genuine artsy goodness

* Excursions into the Unknown - SlimDX Sample Framework details, part 1

* Readme.txt - learn about precompiled headers to speed up your builds

* BrokenThorn Entertainment - Crypter does some C++ hacking to allow the execution of an array as code


General Stuffs

* jpetrie's journal - Josh reviews MGS4

* The Code Zone Bargain Basement Blog - John talks cheap memory and MS conspiracy (plus if he's not featured here he'll step on me)

* Trapper Zoid's Trapper Keeper - Mr. Zoid discusses why the GPL just plain bugs him

* Sir Sapo... The Man ... The Legend - bid farewell and pass along congrats to Sir Sapo, who's been accepted into the US Air Force Academy!

* Not dead... - Phantom says "OMFG" to the new HD4870