GDNet: Tales from Journal Land

The GDNet folks are starting to overwhelm me, finally :) It's getting harder and harder to excise posts and, believe me, I'm trying hard to find reasons for not posting about some entries just so I can do this in less than an hour's worth of work. But they're all making my job mighty difficult with all the nice entries on various stuffages. I'm staring at 32 tabs in my Firefox window (YEAAAAA 314MB of RAM usage) and wondering if I'm not going to cut out a few more before I'm done. Some even have multiple entries that are good that I can feature in different categories (blast me and my organizational habit).

To make a long story short - something for everyone below!

From the Staff

* Gaiiden's Scroll - weekly sitrep: new articles

* The Code Zone Bargain Basement Blog - John returns from Casual Connect with coverage, a look at upcoming reviews and call for authors

* Continuous Refinement - superpig has a PSA out against GameTesterGuide.net


Project Updates

* Journal of EasilyConfused - updates on Udo, implementing doors/portals in the levels, which turns out to be not so easy

* Radioactive-Software - Dan has a new Urban Empires video showing all 50 weapons rendered in the engine. I want that one... and that one... and that one... and that one... and...

* Captaiz Z - in addition to his journal CSS looking totally awesome, he revisits his .SMD loader, this time with C# and SlimDX

* The Bag of Holding - some setbacks for the Epoch language, but nothing ApochPiQ can't overcome

* Disshackled Transanity - Daerax decides to embark on a real quest to develop his own language akin to Epoch and Tangent with *drumroll please* Functional Jargon

* Ye Olde Ramblings - not to be put off by the up-and-coming Functional Jargon and the ever-evolving Epoch, Telastyn pushes ahead with his own language Tangent

* mittentacular - Cubegasm development continues with a new design and orientation

* Reinvention and Further Development of the Wheel - staaf kicks off a new project called Citizen Heist, a space flying/shooting game in 2D

* Stompy's Gamedev Journal - Stompy's game build is still up for download, and now he's looking to create various enemies with different AI traits

* Tool of Procrastination - Matt Carr is back talking about his 3D engine, his game Outworlder, maybe foraying into XNA and thoughts on Exult Studio


Game Dev Stuffs

* There is no escape from the Washu - Washu came out of nowhere this week with a flurry of posts on things like Tool Chains and Automation, Reply Quoting This MessageEdit MessageAsset Development Process, thoughts on agile... oh and nifty diagrams. Nifty diagrams/flowcharts FTW

* MJP's Last Stand - MJP was apparently spurred on by the publishing of his article last week, and offers some tips on Win32 programming and casting function pointers in C++

* Readme.txt - KHawk asks - "what makes a better software engineer". Yea he answers that too.

* Bennu - Demosthenes talks about the steps he had to take to get Bennu ported to the 360

* Excursions into the Unknown - I used to have a VS plugin for this, but I can't remember what it was called. Regardless, Mike.Popoloski source code statistics app gets the job done if you're wondering about your line counts and other info

* Merry Prankster Games - gdunbar gives more insight into distributed source control app Mercurial

* On the path with a ramblin' man - jollyjeffers ponders using GI for terrain rendering. I'm going to assume like he assumes that you know what GI means

* Journal of Donald 'Programmer16' Beals - a minor update to the Quill logging system


Other Stuffs

* Not dead... - phantom did indeed weigh in with his own thoughts and coverage from London GameFest

* Any Colour You Like - more low-level hardware goodness from benryves. I'd uhm... tell you what he was doing if I knew what he was doing. Cool pictars. There you go.

* The Broken Mind - Falling Sky asks if you need web hosting - $45 a month + $75 setup will get you 10gb hard drive and unlimited bandwidth

* Author, Programmer, Bag of Wind(TM) - TAN needs game testers for his latest project HamQuest. Mmmm. Ham.


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