GDNet: Weekend Reading
by Drew -Gaiiden- Sikora · 08/21/2009 (3:25 pm) · 1 comments
Entries from 8/14 - 8/20
Journal Land Pick of the Week
Trapper Zoid's Trapper Keeper - Trapper Zoid was at Freeplay 2009 and gives some coverage of the Australian game industry event sessions
Say hello to new Journal Land citizen jerrywilkins
From the Staff
* Gaiiden's Scroll - Sitrep: New Daily editor for Wed; Chamber orchestra performance videos of two medleys - Super Mario Bros and Chrono Trigger; Serious Sam voice acting offer; updated 2010 events calendar
Project Updates
* iHero - darkpegasus is setting up a game server, looking into options. Considering Project Darkstar and would like recommendations on that and anything else people can think of.
* Happenings with VBStrider and Crew - newsletter #44: programmer report on drag and drop system; new sketches in iScribble from the artist; community report on new clan to combat n00bs
* Reinvention and Further Development of the Wheel - staaf details his game's entity-component system, sharing code of the workings as he goes over the implementation and his problems/successes with it
* Rated N For Nerd - nerd_boy is working up a parser to use with his rnfnCodeLite project for sytax highlighting and maybe IntelliSense and AutoFormatting. He's detailing the design of said parser quite thoroughly
* Journal of AEdmonds - AEdmonds has uploaded the final demo for his game Escape from Space-Prison Lambda
* Journal of EDI - EDI has some new videos of gameplay and discusses future alpha/beta testing plans, as well as where they will be sourcing their testers if anyone would be interested in joining
* There is no escape from the Washu - Washu continues to detail SlimGen, looking at just how much difference it can make, based on a timed test sample that runs through a series of matrix multiplications
* Journal of Lethargic Programmers - cameni, working with his buddies angrypig and jonsky, are taking their terrain engine into the flight simulator realm with help from the JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model library as well as his companion's past experience in flight sim products
* Escaped the Suit - Mike Bossy has basic ODE collision detection working in his Ogre3D game engine project, video and code dump included
* The Code Zone Bargain Basement Blog - johnhattan has opened up his latest project to the public - cryptotwit.com. Use your decrypting skills to figure out what other people's tweets are saying
Game Dev Stuffs
* The Broken Mind - Azh321 has a quick post mortem up on his recently-finished project Hypertac
* Chronicles of the Hieroglyph - Jason Z has his 5th D3D11 programming tip: Compute Shader Resources - looking "a bit closer at the resources used with compute shaders in both HLSL and the application"
* Journal of Ysaneya - Ysaneya has two tips for you all: first is his fix for the artifacts generated by the logarithmic Zbuffer Cameni proposed last week, second is a solution for seamless filtering across faces of a dynamic cube map
* DruinkJournal - Evil Steve discusses topics to include in his next D3D tutorial, hopefully coming in the next month or so. Swing by if you have an idea of what you would like to see
* Merry Prankster Games - gdunbar links to various articles that detail the process of running a proper beta/focus test
* Journal of Sastrugi - Sastrugi continues to look at cloud rendering for his planet engine, figuring out ways to make his original cloud effect more interesting
Other Stuffs
* Any Colour You Like - benryves has a beta version of his Cogwheel Sega 8-bit emulator uploaded for feedback, namely the 3D glasses code. He's also added VGM recording and playback
Journal Land Pick of the Week
Trapper Zoid's Trapper Keeper - Trapper Zoid was at Freeplay 2009 and gives some coverage of the Australian game industry event sessions
Say hello to new Journal Land citizen jerrywilkins
From the Staff
* Gaiiden's Scroll - Sitrep: New Daily editor for Wed; Chamber orchestra performance videos of two medleys - Super Mario Bros and Chrono Trigger; Serious Sam voice acting offer; updated 2010 events calendar
Project Updates
* iHero - darkpegasus is setting up a game server, looking into options. Considering Project Darkstar and would like recommendations on that and anything else people can think of.
* Happenings with VBStrider and Crew - newsletter #44: programmer report on drag and drop system; new sketches in iScribble from the artist; community report on new clan to combat n00bs
* Reinvention and Further Development of the Wheel - staaf details his game's entity-component system, sharing code of the workings as he goes over the implementation and his problems/successes with it
* Rated N For Nerd - nerd_boy is working up a parser to use with his rnfnCodeLite project for sytax highlighting and maybe IntelliSense and AutoFormatting. He's detailing the design of said parser quite thoroughly
* Journal of AEdmonds - AEdmonds has uploaded the final demo for his game Escape from Space-Prison Lambda
* Journal of EDI - EDI has some new videos of gameplay and discusses future alpha/beta testing plans, as well as where they will be sourcing their testers if anyone would be interested in joining
* There is no escape from the Washu - Washu continues to detail SlimGen, looking at just how much difference it can make, based on a timed test sample that runs through a series of matrix multiplications
* Journal of Lethargic Programmers - cameni, working with his buddies angrypig and jonsky, are taking their terrain engine into the flight simulator realm with help from the JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model library as well as his companion's past experience in flight sim products
* Escaped the Suit - Mike Bossy has basic ODE collision detection working in his Ogre3D game engine project, video and code dump included
* The Code Zone Bargain Basement Blog - johnhattan has opened up his latest project to the public - cryptotwit.com. Use your decrypting skills to figure out what other people's tweets are saying
Game Dev Stuffs
* The Broken Mind - Azh321 has a quick post mortem up on his recently-finished project Hypertac
* Chronicles of the Hieroglyph - Jason Z has his 5th D3D11 programming tip: Compute Shader Resources - looking "a bit closer at the resources used with compute shaders in both HLSL and the application"
* Journal of Ysaneya - Ysaneya has two tips for you all: first is his fix for the artifacts generated by the logarithmic Zbuffer Cameni proposed last week, second is a solution for seamless filtering across faces of a dynamic cube map
* DruinkJournal - Evil Steve discusses topics to include in his next D3D tutorial, hopefully coming in the next month or so. Swing by if you have an idea of what you would like to see
* Merry Prankster Games - gdunbar links to various articles that detail the process of running a proper beta/focus test
* Journal of Sastrugi - Sastrugi continues to look at cloud rendering for his planet engine, figuring out ways to make his original cloud effect more interesting
Other Stuffs
* Any Colour You Like - benryves has a beta version of his Cogwheel Sega 8-bit emulator uploaded for feedback, namely the 3D glasses code. He's also added VGM recording and playback
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