GDNet: Weekly Sitrep

Much the Same

* Still looking for contributors for featured articles. See our Writers Page.

* The Facebook page has an ever-increasing fan base. Thanks! Also, several new staff/mod photos up encourage your shy staff/mods to send me pictures!

* Still collecting stories from you all to help us plan out the new site version

* If you haven't dropped in this thread to tell me your favorite GDNet article(s) yet, still plenty of time. I won't be announcing the lucky prize winner until the end of August


LinkedIn Group

Thanks to Lode's suggestion, there is now also a GDNet group on LinkedIn. They don't have a searchable groups catalog yet, so you'll have to visit my profile, scroll down to the bottom and select the GDNet group in order to join.


Win a Trip to E For All

If you're able to afford a trip out to LA to attend the "new E3", then sign-up for a chance to win. If you're a subscriber to our newsletter and a fan of us on Facebook, that's double the chance to win one of 8 expo passes being given out.


Return of the News?

Now Emmanuel Deloget says he wants to come back and spend some more time supporting the site. Him along with Tiffany Smith should be a news force to be reckoned with if things turn out right. We had our highest ever stream of news coming in early last year when Emmanuel was in charge, here's hoping we can bring you even more software/tool and industry news you don't find anywhere else.


Weekend Reading Coming Early

Since the 4th of July is a national holiday here in the US, we're looking at a 3-day weekend (hooray!) coming up, and I'll be leaving for PA late Thursday night, but posting my journal wrap-up earlier in the day. So if you were planning on making an entry anyways, get it done ASAP so I see it, otherwise you're SOL till next week . I'll probably have it up around 3pm EST (-4 GMT).


New Articles

* Marianne Krawczyk: Game Writer, God of War - from the Notes on Game Dev blog

* MAME Mine: Wacky Sports - Ben and Eric take another foray through hundreds of MAME games to see what makes the genre of wacky sports tick and come away with some key designs to keep in mind

* Nintendo Wii Flash Game Creator's Guide: Chapter 5 - this excerpt demonstrates using the Wii remote to make a game where you use a hammer to pound down a nail, with realistic motion


Events

No new events this week. If you have an event that's not listed in our Events Calendar, let me know! - drew@gamedev.net