GDNet: Tales from Journal Land

We're a bit light on the content this week but with the 4th of July around the corner, I've had to cut short the usual length of time this feature covers. Seeing as that tomorrow is a holiday for us in the US of A, here's your weekend wrap-up a day early. Enjoy the three-day weekend fellow Americans!

From the Staff


* Gaiiden's Scroll - LinkedIn group, E For All contest and some reminders from last week


Project Updates


* The Broken Mind - Falling Sky kicks off a new game, drop him some feedback

* MMX Project - some nice-looking normal-mapped sprites

* The Carrier2 papers - I'm such a sucker for screenshots, really I am

* Bennu - Sequel to the frog update last week, this time with details behind animating the frog's physics, and a video

* The Log: Cloud Ocean - new Cloud Ocean screens and download for a demo of new short-term project Elemental


Game Dev Stuffs


* Excursions into the Unknown - Mike.Popoloski continues his look at the SlimDX Sample Framework in part two and part three

* Milkshake's Dev Diary - Milkshake gives a detailed walk through of his game's UI design

* Journal of EasilyConfused - EC comes up with a simple library to use for quick and dirty prototyping

* Readme.txt - Kevin exposes Spore's neat trick of embedding more data than usual into its creature image files

* ... - JTippetts talks about updating his noise library and generates some nifty images


Pats on the back to Jack "jolljeffers" Hoxley on his returning status as a MS DX MVP. Others too, like sirob and Evil Steve, to name a few.

Finally, stop by and give Wardyahh a Journal Land welcome.