My Stuff and a little October Community News
by David Montgomery-Blake · 10/31/2008 (4:19 pm) · 6 comments
Well, I've had quite an interesting month. On the 15th, I ended up in the ER with my appendix trying to murder me. After a short, but successful, surgery, I'm back on my feet. The laproscopic incisions are healed and mostly gone. I still have a little pain if I try to lift heavy objects.
Which brings me to the second part of my good news. My wife and I just bought a house and have been moving in. It's a nice little place that we are pretty much making our own. We have a piano room which was are doing wall-to-wall bookshelves in as well. My friend Brin just put up our 6-foot French doors as an entry to it. We also have an office and a ton of storage space in the basement. So things are looking up.
But that's enough about my personal stuff. I have a rather useless blog for that. I decided to post this blog because I wanted to highlight some of the things that have been happening in the community this month. I usually do a news posting for this, but I did a rather large one that I had missed for a couple of months (and had a *TON* of stuff to parse through!). I thought I'd post the full October report here since I had posted a good chunk of Oct when I was called out by the community to keep it updated!
Cool Stuff
New Tutorial for Animation States in the TGB Platformer Kit on TDN
Lighting and Shadow Pack for TGB
Tutorial for creating a wood texture in Photoshop
Interesting investigation of OpenGL 2.0 in TGB
Nice discussion on iPhone optimization
FreeSpace-ish title in development
Dave Calabrese's presentation on game development
Sprinting with energy bar effect
Working with different video recording software
More Orcs vs Martians
Casual Connect in Hamburg
Useful, Generic Functions by Jeremy Easoz
Michael Vanderpool's snapping tool for TGE/A
Open Source for Game Developers - A New Debate on Business Models
Touch tutorial for iTGB
Information on using FMOD in TGEA
I'm heading out on my honeymoon here tomorrow morning, but I'll be posting a blog about some of the consistently cool projects that are happening in the community when I return.
Which brings me to the second part of my good news. My wife and I just bought a house and have been moving in. It's a nice little place that we are pretty much making our own. We have a piano room which was are doing wall-to-wall bookshelves in as well. My friend Brin just put up our 6-foot French doors as an entry to it. We also have an office and a ton of storage space in the basement. So things are looking up.
But that's enough about my personal stuff. I have a rather useless blog for that. I decided to post this blog because I wanted to highlight some of the things that have been happening in the community this month. I usually do a news posting for this, but I did a rather large one that I had missed for a couple of months (and had a *TON* of stuff to parse through!). I thought I'd post the full October report here since I had posted a good chunk of Oct when I was called out by the community to keep it updated!
Cool Stuff
New Tutorial for Animation States in the TGB Platformer Kit on TDN
Lighting and Shadow Pack for TGB
Tutorial for creating a wood texture in Photoshop
Interesting investigation of OpenGL 2.0 in TGB
Nice discussion on iPhone optimization
FreeSpace-ish title in development
Dave Calabrese's presentation on game development
Sprinting with energy bar effect
Working with different video recording software
More Orcs vs Martians
Casual Connect in Hamburg
Useful, Generic Functions by Jeremy Easoz
Michael Vanderpool's snapping tool for TGE/A
Open Source for Game Developers - A New Debate on Business Models
Touch tutorial for iTGB
Information on using FMOD in TGEA
I'm heading out on my honeymoon here tomorrow morning, but I'll be posting a blog about some of the consistently cool projects that are happening in the community when I return.
About the author
Community management and development, Educational computing systems and lab management, Flex, ActionScript, JavaScript, PHP, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, LUA, etc.
Associate Konrad Kiss
Enjoy your honeymoon, and make sure you don't take your laptop! =)