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GDNet: Tales from Journal Land

by Drew -Gaiiden- Sikora · 12/12/2008 (9:58 am) · 1 comments

Journal Land Pick of the Week

J of K - in case you've missed it by not being a regular visitor to our front page News section, jbadams has started up a new column called "Help Wanted Picks" where he troves through the Help Wanted forum (which he moderates) and selects some of the more notable posts, based largely on the quality of the post and the positions/services being sought. If you're looking for help, check this feature out. If you're looking to post for help and want to see how to go about doing it, check this feature out. He's also looking for feedback as well.

From the Staff

* Gaiiden's Scroll - Weekly sitrep, mainly lots of lots of lots of new event calendar entries. Let him know if he missed anything for Jan-Apr of 09!

* The Code Zone Bargain Basement Blog - johnhattan updates on the "secret" GDNet project and rightly justifies his ad for The COde Zone in Games magazine


Project Updates

* Journal of EasilyConfused - a new update to Udo by EasilyConfused, putting "present blocks" back into the game for object pickups, Mario-style

* iLiNX - urs shares the first two screenshots from his iLiNX engine

* Metaphorical Journeys of Happenstance - Ravuya wraps up a semester and sneaks in an Afterglow update before the crush of final exams

* The Pixel Ocean - PixelOcean shares a download of his sprite animation rendering, check the other link for more info in the design behind it and some code as well


Game Dev Stuffs

* Trapper Zoid's Trapper Keeper - Trapper Zoid talks about the programming languages he wants to pick up next year for various tasks and why he's chosen them over other available languages


Other Stuffs

* What doth life - Aiursrage points to a Native Client, an "open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps".

* Any Colour You Like - benryves has worked to make the TI-83+ resolution and screen orientation match that of the BBC Micro in his TI-83+/TI-84+ port of BBC BASIC


A warm Journal Land welcome goes out to our newest citizen Veslefrikk, who has yet to post something a bit more... substantial :)

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12/12/2008 (10:02 am)
I like the iLinx and Pixel Ocean project updates. I have to delve deeper into those to see what past progress they've made. I'm a sucker for sprite based projects.