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| The Indie Infrastructure: CMS |
| Posted by Andy Schatz on 02/11/09 03:15:00 pm
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| A complex web presence can be either invaluable or a waste of time. If you decide to do any web marketing, like the Wolfire guys, you'd better dive in and do as much as you possibly can. And start with a CMS. |  |
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| The Engine Blog |
| Posted by Mark DeLoura on 02/27/09 01:21:00 am
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| Welcome to a blog about game engines, that will attempt to clear the fog that has settled around the game engine scene. |  |
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| The Engine Survey: General results |
| Posted by Mark DeLoura on 03/02/09 07:52:00 pm
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| The game engine survey conducted in February 2009 among industry executives resulted in some interesting information. This post discusses the first, high-level results. | |
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| The Engine Survey: Technology Results |
| Posted by Mark DeLoura on 03/16/09 09:34:00 am
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| Recently I surveyed a large group of industry executives, seeking information on their thoughts and perceptions of game engine middleware. Last week I shared the general results of that survey with you; this week we’ll talk about the technology results. | |
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| 'Real-Time Cameras' And Mark Haigh-Hutchinson |
| Posted by Mark DeLoura on 05/15/09 07:20:00 pm
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| The book "Real-Time Cameras: A Guide for Game Designers and Developers" covers real-time cameras in games, from a cinematographic perspective and a technical perspective. This is the story of how the book came to be, as told in the foreword. | |
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The Power of Compositing  |
| Posted by Dan Goodman on 07/23/09 04:44:00 am
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| Compositing allow the combination of simple elements into something new and more interesting than the elements themselves. It is extremely useful in game development. |  |
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| Usability Usability Usability |
| Posted by Dan Goodman on 08/20/09 04:45:00 am
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| The importance of usability for game development tools cannot be stressed enough. | |
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| When to Throw in the Towel |
| Posted by Dan Goodman on 09/03/09 04:50:00 am
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| When should tools be rebuilt from the ground up instead of simply patched together with some scotch tape and rubber cement? | |
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| I'm still alive |
| Posted by Tommy Refenes on 02/26/09 05:32:00 pm
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| I'm an engine man. Something about resource management and threading gets me all hot - an introduction post to Tommy Refenes. |  |
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| Welcome to Gamasutra Blogs! |
| Posted by Chris Remo on 03/04/09 11:52:00 pm
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| Welcome to Gamasutra Blogs. We've put together a brief summary of our plans and goals with this new section of the site, as well as some handy guidelines for prospective bloggers. Get in on the ground floor! |  |
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| Independent Developments |
| Posted by Jason Bakker on 05/31/09 09:37:00 pm
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| About getting a start on independent iPhone development. |  |
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| Ze iPhone Game: Choosing an Engine |
| Posted by Jason Bakker on 07/21/09 01:26:00 pm
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| This post covers my development team's first steps in making our iPhone game, describing the engines and APIs that are currently out there and the decision-making process that I went through in choosing which engine to go with. | |
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| Smarter than your Average Zombie |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 04/12/09 05:02:00 pm
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| I thought it would be cool to make Zombies fast and fierce, but I had no idea of the kind of technical issues it would bring. |  |
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| Help! I Think I Peaked |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 05/15/09 12:19:00 am
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| Have I peaked already? Am I doomed to a title of Project Manager? | |
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| What's Wrong With Being Indie |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 05/25/09 11:22:00 pm
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| In my various failed attempts to find strong partners through the years, I've come to a few conclusions. | |
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| In Search of More Zombies |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 07/27/09 03:45:00 am
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| The ramblings of a mad man with hopes to gain some perspective on his recent troubles. How many zombies does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a PCI bus?
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| Wolfenstein: A Sad Day for PC’s |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 08/24/09 03:20:00 am
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| Getting something that feels more like a port than a PC game... | |
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| GPU Animation Peak |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 09/29/09 04:15:00 pm
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| I'm scratching my head over the old habits of modern animation systems. Have GPU's forced us into a corner? | |
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| Homebrew Can Be A Good Thing |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 10/09/09 02:44:00 am
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| My stream of consciousness leads me down the debate of homebrew console development. What do you think; good or bad? | |
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| Developers are Cheap! |
| Posted by Benjamin Quintero on 11/13/09 05:28:00 am
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| Working harder, not smarter is a hard trend to break. | |
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| Games That Pushed The Envelope... I Salute You |
| Posted by Luis Levy on 09/15/09 09:04:00 pm
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| Games that far surpass their platform’s assumed technical limits fascinate me. Even if they happen to be bad games – and some of them are, indeed – I will still go to great lenghths to add them to my personal collection. |  |
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| Design Tool Programmers Have No Excuses Any More |
| Posted by Borut Pfeifer on 05/27/09 05:50:00 pm
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| It's so quick to add Perforce integration and Excel import/export to design tools that are used to tune large sets of data, there's really no excuse not to. |  |
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| Horizontal displacement |
| Posted by Brano Kemen on 05/30/09 01:50:00 am
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| Toying with horizontal displacement in my terrain engine to generate features not possible with common vertically applied noise. |  |
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| Roads |
| Posted by Brano Kemen on 06/25/09 10:49:00 am
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| Using shaders and vector splines to create roads | |
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| Logarithmic Z-Buffer |
| Posted by Brano Kemen on 08/12/09 02:43:00 pm
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| Using logarithmic Z-buffer to get rid of Z-fighting and near plane clipping in large-scale planetary rendering. | |
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| Horizontal Fractal Displacement |
| Posted by Brano Kemen on 11/12/09 03:46:00 am
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| Another take on the horizontal fractal displacement for fractal-refined terrain rendering. | |
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| What Makes Me Think I'm Suddenly A Game Designer? |
| Posted by Glenn Corpes on 03/10/09 03:52:00 pm
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| After twenty plus years working in games, mostly as a programmer, I suddenly think I have what it takes to be a game designer as well. Am I kidding myself? |  |
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| Cross-Platform Development For A Single Platform Game? |
| Posted by Glenn Corpes on 03/18/09 06:17:00 pm
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| I've spent the last few weeks getting my iPhone game up and running on the PC. Several people have seen this as an unnecessary distraction from getting the game finished but it's something I have seen as vital for a very long time now. | |
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| The Future Of The IGDA Is Written By You. |
| Posted by Reid Kimball on 08/03/09 03:19:00 pm
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| How the recent controversy regarding Tim Langdell opens the door to shape the IGDA into what its members want from it. |  |
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| A story about shaders, Part I |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 03/16/09 07:29:00 pm
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| Steve Theodore's article contains a good discussion of some of the key issues in getting artists directly involved in the shader creation process. This is the first of a series of posts about my own experiences on the topic. |  |
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| A story about shaders, Part II |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 03/17/09 05:17:00 pm
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| When we left off yesterday, artists were at last able to create shaders without having to learn any programming. It seemed like a new age of enlightenment, but was everything really happy in the mushroom kingdom? The story continues... | |
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| A story about shaders, Part III |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 03/26/09 05:50:00 pm
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| Even with fancy shader builder GUIs, we can't completely ditch the programmers from the shader creation process. Now explore what's involved in sharing the work between programmers and artists in the artist-driven paradigm. | |
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| A story about shaders, Part IV |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 04/03/09 01:05:00 pm
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| The final chapter of this epic saga about shader creation work flow. Time conspires against us, as always, but there are a few tricks that can help avoid an unnecessary crunch. | |
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| Is "unity" too few clicks to ask for? |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 04/06/09 01:55:00 am
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| Dave Perry recently commented that a major advantage of Gaikai over OnLive is it does not require a download. Tonight I finally got around to trying out Unity3d, which faces a similar obstacle. My impressions of the download barrier... | |
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| The taste of TOJam |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 06/03/09 12:17:00 am
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| I've worked in games and entertainment for years, but in the back of my mind I always envied indie projects. This year, I finally stopped thinking about it and jumped in to TOJam #4. | |
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| Virtualization: It's Faster Than You Think. |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 06/23/09 09:00:00 am
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| Virtualization is a hot trend in the general computing and IT worlds, but hasn't seen much action in game development. Let's take a look at the performance of a modern virtualization solution to see if VMs really are too slow for game developers. | |
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| Game Programmer Books: General Programming |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 07/08/09 03:10:00 pm
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| The beginnings of a recommended reading list for programmers, fortified with member contributions. | |
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| Make Your Bed, Eat Your Veggies, and Comment Your Code |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 07/17/09 05:35:00 am
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| Sure, we all know we're supposed to include comments with the code we write, but how often do you leave documentation as a chore for the end of development? Here are some tips for making commenting code a little easier. | |
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| Code Assertively |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 08/01/09 07:00:00 pm
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| Assert. Some people love it, some hate it. While it can be a bit abrasive, assert is really not so bad once you get to know it a little better. | |
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| In C++, Everything is Harder Than You Think |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 08/14/09 04:05:00 pm
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| C++ is a great foundation for building games, but you need more than just the core language to get anywhere fast and reliably. If you're not using C++ with STL and Boost, it might be time to upgrade your toolbox. | |
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| Using Mutable To Write Better Container Code |
| Posted by Neil Gower on 10/07/09 03:10:00 pm
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| In this post I take a look at how to use "mutable" in C++ while giving in to the urge to over-comment some code. | |
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| AI Lessons from Un-Balancing Scrabble |
| Posted by Dave Mark on 03/18/09 03:05:00 pm
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| By gradually changing the number of words with odd letters that are in the Scrabble dictionary, the scoring system gradually became unbalanced. This sort of math juggling is something that game designers and AI Programmers deal with all the time. |  |
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| Pre-GDC Ponderings on the AI Summit |
| Posted by Dave Mark on 03/19/09 03:44:00 pm
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| Why the members of the AI Game Programmers Guild, presenters of the AI Summit at GDC, would be quite happy presenting to each other, even if no one else showed up to watch. | |
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| Choices: Not Just For Players Any More! |
| Posted by Dave Mark on 04/10/09 10:36:00 am
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| Providing non-linear, non-calculatable choices for players is all well and good. However, if we are going to achieve depth in gameplay we need to provide that same depth of choice to our AI NPCs as well. | |
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| And the Award for Best Artificial Intelligence goes to... |
| Posted by Dave Mark on 05/28/09 11:34:00 am
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| Why is it the arguably single most important element of many interactive games isn't prominently rated, judged, or given awards? | |
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| AI and MMOs - The Controversy |
| Posted by Dave Mark on 09/06/09 04:52:00 pm
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| There have been numerous posts on Gamasutra lately discussing various aspects of MMOs and how better AI can help. Coincidentally, this is the topic of my lecture at GDC Austin next week. As a sort of "coming attraction" I weigh in on these issues. | |
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| GDC 2009 - Day 1 - Surviving Math for Programmers |
| Posted by Jim McGinley on 03/24/09 03:27:00 am
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| One man's attempt to understand the full day tutorial 'Math for Programmers', starring Marq Singer, Jim Van Verth, Squirrel Eiserloh, Christer Ericson and Erin Catto. |  |
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| TOJam #4 - Friday - 300 feet of Ethernet, Brown Clouds, and no Water |
| Posted by Jim McGinley on 05/27/09 04:30:00 am
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| We thought we were ready. We thought we knew everything that could go wrong. We were fools... FOOLS! | |
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| Darwinia+ - Deep And Dirty: Part 1 |
| Posted by Byron Atkinson-Jones on 04/17/09 11:58:00 am
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| The one about Mother-in-laws, Donald Knuth, the sewers of London and optimizing Darwinia+. |  |
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| Darwinia+ - Deep And Dirty: Part 2 |
| Posted by Byron Atkinson-Jones on 05/20/09 05:38:00 am
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| Part 2 of getting deep into the code of Darwinia+ for XBLA in order to speed it up in time for release. | |
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| Interviewing In A Skilled Labor Force Industry |
| Posted by Travis Johnston on 05/22/09 05:33:00 pm
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| Some thoughts on why you should never stop interviewing, why less interviews can be better and the often overlooked preparation for each interview. |  |
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| Getting GameMaker to Update Twitter (A Spelunky Example) |
| Posted by Darius Kazemi on 07/06/09 02:14:00 pm
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| This blog post outlines how you can get GameMaker 7 to update Twitter, using Derek Yu's Spelunky as a specific example. |  |
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| A* for Artists |
| Posted by Adam Saltsman on 04/30/09 01:16:00 pm
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| Actually this method might not even be A*. Regardless, I will attempt to break down a simple pathfinding algorithm in layman's terms for artists, musicians, flash programmers, and other non-geeks. |  |
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| Predictive Firing Mathematics |
| Posted by Kain Shin on 05/15/09 08:33:00 pm
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| A while back, I decided to look up algorithms for predictive firing on the internet, but I couldn't find any that incorporated acceleration in three dimensions, so I decided to derive the algorithm myself. |  |
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| About Wanting What You Already Have. |
| Posted by Gabriel Lievano on 06/10/09 02:16:00 pm
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| Artificial Intelligence is every day getting smarter and smarter. Not only it is simulating precise behaviour and calculations but also making intelligent mistakes so players think the computer is more like them and less machine. However there's more to |  |
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| Thinking Out of the Box |
| Posted by Gabriel Lievano on 06/30/09 08:23:00 pm
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| About how to improve the AI's navigation and decision making by implementing Neural Networks and Creative Actions. | |
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| Chatbots 102 – Postmortem |
| Posted by bruce wilcox on 06/12/09 06:17:00 pm
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| Reviews the results of implementing a chatbot described in "Beyond AIML: Chatbots 102". Suzette won Best New Bot in the 2009 Chatterbox Challenge. | |
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| Rendering Plants with Smooth Edges |
| Posted by David Rosen on 09/09/09 11:06:00 am
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| Tips for smoothly rendering alpha masked leaves on plants and trees. |  |
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| Trees In The Breeze |
| Posted by David Rosen on 09/22/09 02:15:00 pm
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| A vertex shader is applied to a 'firmness' texture to generate pseudo-random wind motion for Overgrowth's vegetation. | |
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| Character Rim Lighting |
| Posted by David Rosen on 11/03/09 05:09:00 am
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| Rim lighting is a good technique for combating the "plaster effect" and allowing soft materials to look soft. | |
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| How To Project Decals |
| Posted by David Rosen on 11/09/09 08:17:00 pm
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| An explanation of 3D decal projection. | |
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| Code Reviews in Practice |
| Posted by Chris Howe on 10/03/09 10:16:00 am
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| Code reviews are one of the best things you can do to improve code quality, but the process isn't a silver bullet. These are my observations on what works and what doesn't work when it comes to implementing code reviews. | |
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| An Argument For Mono In Games |
| Posted by Chris Howe on 08/08/09 01:55:00 pm
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| A discussion of scripting and the productivity benefits that could come from JIT'd languages, and in particular from embedded Mono. | |
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| Guide To Becoming An Independent Game Developer |
| Posted by Alistair Doulin on 11/08/09 02:08:00 am
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| Have you ever thought about becoming an indie game developer? Has your game company just gone under, sick of working for publishers or do you just want to break into the games industry? If so, indie game development might be for you. |  |
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| Using C# For a Commercial Game |
| Posted by Alistair Doulin on 11/17/09 03:38:00 am
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| Does the title of this article make you cringe? People have mixed feelings when it comes to C# and the .NET framework. This article outlines my reasoning for using C# for a commercial game on PC. | |
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Member Blogs
| Hobby Video Game Studio looking for Concept Artists, Designers, Writers |
| Posted by Winston Miller on 04/29/09 12:08:00 am
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| As an aspiring game designer/programmer, I am putting together a hobby project to get a bit more experience in team management, design, programming, and the industry as a whole. Posted a call on various sites, repeated here. |  |
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| Blog opening, thanks Gamasutra ! |
| Posted by Gregory Massal on 03/05/09 07:29:00 pm
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| This new blog will contain thoughts about programming, graphics and game programming mostly. |  |
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| Opinion: I Want Passwords Back |
| Posted by Roberto Alfonso on 04/01/09 11:39:00 pm
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| Passwords can let you experiment the game in ways the game designer did not expect. If they prolong the gaming time, why can't they be used again? | |
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| XNA Quicks - My First Game |
| Posted by Marc Miles on 03/31/09 08:23:00 pm
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| Long time web app developer takes a shot at game development and finishes his first game, video and source available as well. |  |
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| The Tin Idiot Manages Drama |
| Posted by Ron Newcomb on 04/13/09 03:16:00 am
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| The drama manager: magicware that ensures a good yet interactive story. But why would a writer condone it? How could a programmer build it? And how much should a producer allot it? The first step is to rename it: enter the author-character. |  |
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| PAX09 Special Report: A Console Love-in |
| Posted by Ron Newcomb on 09/11/09 08:44:00 am
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| The Penny Arcade Expo was held last weekend in Seattle. What's a washed-up gamer with no reflexes do? Watch the gamers, and consider the past and future. | |
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| Sequels Are Better. For Now. |
| Posted by Ron Newcomb on 09/26/09 06:25:00 pm
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| Technological constraints temporarily defined a "gamer" to mean a solitary individual, in defiance of the traditional norm. In the same fashion, another unique characteristic of the videogame medium, "sequels are better", is destined to fall. | |
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| Gameplay Rules Must Feed Plot Devices |
| Posted by Ron Newcomb on 10/25/09 08:34:00 pm
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| Ruleset design doesn't end with gameplay. Without certain needs met, some techniques of interactive plot become very difficult. Case in point: integrating psionics with the second edition of Dungeons and Dragons. | |
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| Simple Games: Space Invaders |
| Posted by Richard Clayton on 03/02/09 05:17:00 am
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| In this post, I demonstrate a very, very simple space invader game played in the web browser. |  |
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| Simple Games: Point and Click: Part One |
| Posted by Richard Clayton on 03/03/09 12:15:00 pm
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| Point and Click in Javascript? Some very, very simple demonstrations. Should work in all (modern) browsers. | |
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| Simple Games: Space Invaders Updated |
| Posted by Richard Clayton on 03/04/09 12:25:00 pm
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| Half an hour adding sounds and images made this simple ASCII shooter a little better. | |
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| Simple Games: Simple Arcade Game |
| Posted by Richard Clayton on 03/05/09 12:26:00 pm
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| A simple flip-screen arcade game demonstration in javascript. Shamefully IE only at the moment. | |
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| Simple Games: Isometric Maps |
| Posted by Richard Clayton on 03/06/09 12:29:00 pm
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| Turning a tilebased array game into an isometric map. In the browser again, naturally. | |
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| Bengine |
| Posted by Benoit Tremblay on 03/10/09 12:51:00 pm
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| I am officially launching Bengine. The goal of this engine is to develop a library for making a RPG in 3D with network, sound and everything. The principal aim of this engine is simplicity and reuse. |  |
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| Bengine: How Do You Make Your Abstract Factory? |
| Posted by Benoit Tremblay on 03/16/09 07:00:00 am
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| The first important feature I defined for Bengine is something that manage the creation of a system (renderer, networking, physics, sounds, ...) with a generic interface. This is called an abstract factory. As Wikipedia define it: | |
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| Writing a File Manager for Games? |
| Posted by Orion Granatir on 03/13/09 01:10:00 pm
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| There are some less glorious tasks required to make a game. No one really wants to write a file manager. This blog is asking for help to define what is needed for an open source platform independent file manager for games.
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| The View From Here |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 05/31/08 12:05:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning if life as a game programmer. |  |
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| Running the Gauntlet |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 06/02/08 12:07:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning if life as a game programmer. | |
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| Running the Gauntlet (Part 2) |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 06/13/08 12:08:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new life as a game programmer. | |
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| Running the Gauntlet (Part 3) |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 07/11/08 12:10:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning in life as a game programmer. | |
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| To Infinity and Beyond |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 07/29/08 12:11:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning in life as a game programmer. | |
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| It's been a while... |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 10/30/08 12:11:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning in life as a game programmer. | |
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| Keeping it real, man. |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 12/01/08 12:13:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning in life as a game programmer. | |
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| Post Mortem of a Casual Game |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 04/16/09 12:16:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning in life as a game programmer. | |
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| Fear, Trembling, and Harsh Reality |
| Posted by Robert Madsen on 02/06/09 12:17:00 am
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| A veteran IT programmer finds new meaning in life as a game programmer. | |
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| Introduction to Shaders |
| Posted by Atul Sharma on 03/18/09 05:27:00 pm
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| An introduction to shaders. |  |
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| White Belts, Game AI and the GDC Aftermath |
| Posted by Alex Champandard on 04/19/09 08:57:00 pm
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| Everything is changing for artificial intelligence in games! These are fascinating times; everyone is at the same time a domain expert and a complete beginner. What's going on? |  |
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| My quest to break into the industry: I'm back in the game |
| Posted by Criss Martin on 03/05/09 07:28:00 am
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| The quest begins. Learn a little about me and how I plan to accomplish this. |  |
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| My quest to break into the industry: My First Mod |
| Posted by Criss Martin on 03/09/09 07:31:00 am
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| I've decided to start my quest by creating a mod. When I interviewed with Ritual, one of the questions that was asked was have I ever modded a game. I had spent pretty much the last year and a half working on my custom 3d demo and had never thought m... | |
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| My quest to break into the industry: Mini Mod Update 3/17/2009 |
| Posted by Criss Martin on 03/17/09 07:32:00 am
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| It's been a busy week so this is the first time I've gotten to work on this in a week. I didn't do much tonight. I added a trace to MyFirstEntity's MoveThink function that performs a trace every time the entity changes direction and logs whether it hit... | |
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| My quest to break into the industry: New approach/Coming out party |
| Posted by Criss Martin on 04/09/09 07:34:00 am
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| I decided today that working on my own in my cave might not be the best of plans. I was on the Dallas IGDA website today and found a post in the forums for an "Ad Lib game development group". The group's mission is to get together every 4-6 weeks and... | |
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| My quest to break into the industry: Mega Half-Life Man |
| Posted by Criss Martin on 04/12/09 07:36:00 am
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| I've come up with a preliminary game design from my Source mod. It's going to be a 2-d side scroller based on mega man. Since I'm not an artist of any kind, it will use all the models from the Half Life game, I'll just tweak the AI a to make it more 2d... | |
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| The Start of My Life |
| Posted by S _ on 05/06/09 07:12:00 pm
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| The start of a hardware guy's transformation into a C++ game programmer. Let the sleep debt begin... |  |
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| Fight monkey of Magic nears completion. AI still a work in progress |
| Posted by Jesse Demarco on 11/13/09 05:13:00 pm
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| Artificial intelligence is hard to perfect. (Have you heard that before?) |  |
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| To self-educate or matriculate? |
| Posted by Jerry Davis on 06/14/09 08:15:00 am
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| To self-educate or matriculate? That is the question most on my mind these days. It has been more than 15 years since I first learned the basics of programming a computer to do what I wanted it to and actually it was with BASIC. | |
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| Side projects and quality of life |
| Posted by James Steele on 06/15/09 04:25:00 pm
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| My thoughts on side projects at home. |  |
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| First Blog |
| Posted by Chris Lee on 06/29/09 08:31:00 pm
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| First blog post !!!! | |
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| Decisions Decisions |
| Posted by Chris Lee on 07/01/09 07:34:00 pm
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| When faced with so many options, how does a designer nail down the best solution. | |
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| Keeping everyone posted |
| Posted by Chris Lee on 07/07/09 08:14:00 pm
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| Updating everyone on my progress. | |
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| Adding AI to a Board Game |
| Posted by Pedro Santos on 07/23/09 04:20:00 am
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| An introduction on how we implemented artificial intelligence on our board game. |  |
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| Trying to make an "Age of Empires" |
| Posted by aniol santacreu on 08/19/09 04:06:00 am
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| I'm Trying to make an "Age of Empires" with C/C++ and SDL |  |
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| The New CityEngine 2009.3 Live Demo in Las Vegas! |
| Posted by Marcel Reimer on 11/07/09 07:52:00 am
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| Come and Experience the New CityEngine 2009.3, Live Demos in Las Vegas! |  |
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| Project Nightshade (a farewell to frames) |
| Posted by Randell Trulson on 09/07/09 11:39:00 pm
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| Nightshade is the overhauling of the Neuron Games web site. |  |
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| GPA 2.1 - DX Graphics Performance Tools |
| Posted by Chris Cormack on 09/14/09 07:54:00 pm
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| GPA 2.1 is available for free download today. Analyze and improve the performance of your game on any DX device. |  |
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| General cel shader |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 09/17/09 01:49:00 pm
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| General cel shader used in Labyrinthica: The quest of lima. |  |
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| Bug negative verification |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 09/18/09 03:26:00 am
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| How will you make sure you solved a bug?
Discussed on this blog post. | |
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| Examining Geometry Based Anti Aliasing (GAA) |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 09/21/09 01:18:00 pm
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| A technique of implementing a Geometry based Anti Alias (GAA), instead of using the built in 3D graphics AA. I am using a geometry based or fins geometry outline technique, and use it to draw translucent smooth edges with the same color of the 3D model. | |
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| Bugs as an opportunity to learn |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 09/25/09 04:58:00 am
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| Talking about the concept of bug preventation. And how to benefit from the time wasted on solving bugs. | |
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| Copy Paste And Coding |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 10/02/09 05:40:00 am
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| Why should a programmer avoid copy pasting code. When should he\she do that, and what is the alternative? | |
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| Motivation And Efficiency While Working On A Single Project? |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 10/14/09 10:05:00 am
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| My experience from focusing on a single game project and how working on multi projects might help. | |
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| Banana Jump, Barrel Kick 1: Introduction. |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 10/16/09 05:51:00 pm
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| Introduction for a small XNA, C# game I am going to develope and follow with several blog posts. | |
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| Banana jump, Barrel Kick(BJBK) 2: TortoiseSVN, Version control. |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 10/30/09 11:20:00 am
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| The second chapter of Banana jump, Barrel Kick(BJBK) will talk briefly about TortoiseSVN. | |
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| BJBK 4: Reviewing the code of revision 10(first milestone) |
| Posted by Ofer Rubinstein on 11/14/09 09:35:00 am
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| "Code review" of the first milestone in Banana Jump, Barrel Kick. Including subjects as pattern level design and spartan programming. | |
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| Islamic search engine ImHalal hailed a success |
| Posted by Boby Rebobo on 09/21/09 09:56:00 am
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| The world’s first "Islamic orientated" internet search engine, which flags content that might be considered "haraam"... | |
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| Top US general Stanley McChrystal: we need a new plan to win in Afghanistan |
| Posted by Boby Rebobo on 09/21/09 10:15:00 am
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| America and Nato's top military commander in Afghanistan has warned in a secret report that he needs more troops and a new strategy or the allied mission will probably end in failure.
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| Cpanel Hosting |
| Posted by Cpanel Hosting on 09/26/09 06:33:00 am
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| CPanel is a unix based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. cPanel hosting utilizes a 3 tier structure that provides functionality for administrators, re | |
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| High Court uses Twitter to issue injunction |
| Posted by Alexa Doplad on 10/05/09 08:55:00 am
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| The court said issuing the writ over the micro-blogging site was the best way to get to an anonymous tweeter | |
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| Welcome to Crankville |
| Posted by David Lee on 10/05/09 01:28:00 am
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| What up people! Time to put on like young jeezy! |  |
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| Does Forza 3 Split The Haves & The Have Nots? |
| Posted by Isaiah Taylor on 11/04/09 08:26:00 am
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| I know it's a small issue. This has been well documented prior to the game's release, but man it still bothers me that to 'fully enjoy' a game you paid for you will need under two gigs of space on your hard drive. This may not be a huge concern for most | |
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| Cindy Lagumen |
| Posted by Cindy Lagumen on 10/23/09 11:32:00 pm
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| Cindy Lagumen's Blogs | |
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| Texas Dedicated Hosting |
| Posted by Texas Host on 11/02/09 06:08:00 am
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| Texas Dedicated Hosting | |
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| Building An Analytical Physics Engine - Pt.1 |
| Posted by Stuart Evans on 11/05/09 10:13:00 pm
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| The first in (hopefully) a number of articles discussing what I'm calling the Analytical approach to making a physics engine. | |
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| Selecting Your Next Game Engine |
| Posted by Kent Barber on 11/11/09 09:01:00 am
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| Some things for beginner game developers to think about when selecting (or building) their next game engine, with a leaning towards online based games. | |
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