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Gaiiden
December 03, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 11/26 - 12/3

Stop by and check out the new journals of Eastfist and dejaime!

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WorldAlpha.com DevBlog - check out World Alpha's website, very nicely done. Seems like an interesting project, especially considering how …
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Gaiiden
November 26, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 11/18 - 11/26

Stop by and check out the new journals of worldalpha, pygame and Urled!

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Lyost's Journal - Lyost discovered his A* pathfinding on a navmesh wasn't working once he switched from run-time generation to lo…
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Gaiiden
November 22, 2011
Checking out OurBricks
Been talking to the makers of this in-browser web plugin that lets you view 3D models:

[media]http://ourbricks.com/viewer/94cac27075634dd9ce44079b0e650a53[/media]

Just added the embed code to get this working for journals and forums, all you need to do is use the media tag and add the embed link the …
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Gaiiden
November 19, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 11/11 - 11/18

Project Updates

  • D Bits - Aldacron takes a look at his D and Allegro framework Dolce after taking some time off the project and still likes what he sees. In discussing his past ideas and future visions of the project he gives a nic…
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Gaiiden
November 11, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 10/28 - 11/11

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I am a duck - Mike Bossy has a couple videos showing the progress of his prototype as he describes the various tweaks and ideas he goes through. Note that he doesn't care much about how the game look…
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Gaiiden
October 28, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 10/21 - 10/28

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OddGames development journal - O-san realizes just how much data he's passing to his graphics card to render his 2D character - turns out it's quite a lot! Morale of his story: If you're working on a…
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Gaiiden
October 22, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 10/14 - 10/21

Welcome, new Journal Land scribes rwilson1982 and Lyost!

From the Staff

  • GameDev.net Staff Journal - site engineer Michael Tanczos talks about the changes he's made to the news stream to take into account more metrics to choose stories…
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Gaiiden
October 15, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 10/7 - 10/14

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SteelGolem's Journal - SteelGolem is back! And with him he's brought a nice series of developer video diaries documenting the current project he's working on, which is based off Minecraft and Terrari…
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Gaiiden
October 07, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 10/1 - 10/7

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Chronicles of the Hieroglyph - Jason Z talks about the Render View capabilities of the Hieroglyph 3 engine, which allows him to take advantage of multithreading in D3D11 and handle some unconventional G…
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Gaiiden
October 01, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 9/23 - 10/1

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Dungeon Fortress - Darkness is not your friend - Ashaman73 takes a detailed look at suspension of disbelief and how it is carried out in video games, citing several examples both good and bad, and touchin…
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Gaiiden
September 24, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 9/16 - 9/23

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Writing Web Games - Battagline has put the wraps on Mathjong (check out the web version) and has also released a Chrome version to the Google Web Store, saying he's found this to be effective in capturin…
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Gaiiden
September 17, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 9/9 - 9/16

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Journal of Aardvajk - Aardvajk has some ASM script for a VM he is working on as his home project away from work

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Robot University -- a 2D DirectX Puzzle - hey, ho! What's thi…
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Gaiiden
September 10, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 8/26 - 9/9

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OMG NUB! - Tape_Worm has implemented multi-monitor support for his Gorgon engine and has found the process to be rather painful. He explains why as he covers two ways you can implement multi-monitor s…
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Gaiiden
September 02, 2011
Trying IPS status updates again
Way back at the start of the year and the start of the new GameDev.net I began using the IPS status update feature to micro-blog about small changes to the site and mentioned this in one of my blog posts. I honestly don't know why I fell off doing this, but I did. The rest of the staff did too but …
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Gaiiden
August 27, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Not only did I manage to Alt+Tab out of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Lounge discussion thread!), but I managed to keep myself from Alt+Tabbing back in. We'll see if this incredible bout of self control lasts long enough to complete this Journal Land round-up. Oh and I'll be right under Irene when she…
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Gaiiden
August 20, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 8/12 - 8/19

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et1337 makes games - et1337 has an update to Parkour Ninja, which has seen a few changes including a first-person camera, deferred rendering, and has adopted a new physics engine called BEPU physics, w…
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Gaiiden
August 13, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 8/5 - 8/12

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Journal of dx elliot - dx elliot has his second Flash game Defend Your Nuts released and free to play over at Armor Games - check it out! Congrats to him on the release and you can read more about the deve…
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Gaiiden
August 05, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 7/29 - 8/5.

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D Bits - Aldacron talks about structs and classes in D and how they are similar to Java and C++ but at the same time just different enough to possibly cause some confusion if you're transitioning to D …
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Gaiiden
July 29, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 7/22 - 7/29.

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Trapper Zoid's Scrapbook - Trapper Zoid walks through his ActionScript environment setup and comments on what he thinks of the various tools and libraries he is using, such as Mercurial, flixel, Flex,…
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Gaiiden
July 23, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Sorry about the late Weekend Reading post. It was triple digits today (in real heat) and rolling blackouts would have made working a pain in the ass. Luckily I planned ahead and just slept all day so I can now work all night, when it's relatively cool. It's now 11pm and my desktop weather widget sa…
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Gaiiden
July 16, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 7/8 - 7/15.

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Ramblings of a partialy sane programmer - blewisjr expresses his opinion of while C isn't the best language to learn over C++, programmers should still at some point learn C so they can better apprecia…
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Gaiiden
July 08, 2011
Weekend Reading - Tales from Journal Land
This double-dose edition of Weekend Reading is dedicated to ZeeGee Games, whose office I'm currently squatting in as its owner Dustin Clingman took me out to see the last space shuttle launch today. Since I'm too lazy to get my laptop fixed I came down here with only an iPhone - not suitable for cr…
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Gaiiden
June 24, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Announcement!
If you've had a journal entry Featured on the main page in the last few months, please read this thread. Thanks!

Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 6/17 - 6/24.

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Ramblings of a partialy sane programmer - blewisjr has a tutorial on tackling…
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Gaiiden
June 17, 2011
Reflecting on 10 years of working with GDNet
[size="1"]Posted also to my personal blog Blade Edge.

12:25pm, June 18[sup]th[/sup] 2001 an email was delivered to my Hotmail Inbox. It was a Monday and I was probably still in school, a high school Senior ready for my final year of formal education to be over. I probably only had a few days left of…
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Gaiiden
June 17, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 6/10 - 6/17.

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Chronicles of the Hieroglyph - Jason Z updates the Hieroglyph 3 repository withe the latest code that allows for multithreaded text rendering and explains the method behind it and the history of the …
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Gaiiden
June 11, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 6/3 - 6/10.

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Journal of Aardvajk - Aardvajk details his Undo/Redo system for his project's editor. This system is something I always find interesting since people end up doing in various different ways, although the…
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Gaiiden
June 04, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
Welcome to the month of June fellow game devvers! Here's what went down as the months transitioned over the period of 5/27 - 6/3.

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Rendering Systems - RSI shares the source to one of his MFC controls for anyone to use in their projects. He also shows of Woody's root syst…
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Gaiiden
May 27, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
We're kicking off a three-day weekend over here in the US of A - everyone enjoy the extra time off! You can do so in fact by checking out the journals that were updated this past week from 5/20 - 5/27.

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D Bits - Aldacron runs an interesting journal on the D programming l…
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Gaiiden
May 21, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
If anyone is still alive to read this, here are your Journal Land entries from 5/13 - 5/20.

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Keeping up with yesterday - if you're in need of a reminder why it's important to back up your data, a_insomniac has a good one for you. Remember, all hardware at some point in…
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Gaiiden
May 14, 2011
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land
I hope everyone has had a great week! Here are your Journal Land entries from 5/6 - 5/13.

Featured GDNet+ Journal Entry

Graphics Engine Development - AndyEsser is participating in the community challenge and documenting his progress in his journal. The challenge theme is "U Can't Touch This"

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