First off, I posted a new review of Musicshake here. Happy reading.
https://www.gamedev.net/features/reviews/productreview.asp?productid=725
Next off, I got the next two gamedev books in the mail yesterday, including my own "Beginning Programming" book. While the original intent was for the programming books to be truly monstrous tomes, it looks like Drew beat me by a few pages with Design and Content Creation, mainly owing to some extensive pixel-art tutorials. Drew also one-upped my extensive equations with a "flip book" animation of a girl kicking you in the head. Good work, kid.
(your humble co-editor posing with over 1400 pages of game programming goodness)
The orange one on the top is my baby. My other baby, Advanced Programming, will be arriving in two or three weeks and has a green cover. On the whole it looks great and I'm proud of it. It's aimed at beginners but isn't so elementary that it'll grow useless after a single reading. Some chapters, specifically the vectors & matrices tutorial, ended up looking quite a bit nicer than I expected. Other chapters that worried me, like Metanet's 2D tutorial, which relied on lots of colorful diagrams, look okay too. Kudos to the Cengage formatting department for being able to make my hours of time with MS Equation Editor and eDrawMax pay off.
And yes, I said I'd be giving away a free book. I plan to make giveaways of any extra copies of the books I might happen to get. And it turns out I have more than one copy of Business and Production For Games (the blue book) here. So I'm giving it away to a lucky winner.
The title of this content is "The Shamelessly Trolling For Twitter Followers Game", and entering the giveaway is quite simple. Just follow me on Twitter. Go to
http://twitter.com/johnhattan
And press the "follow" button under the little bulldozer. Then post an @response like the following. . .
@johnhattan please enter me in the contest to win a free book. http://tr.im/gQnH
(the mini-URL at the end will go to this blog post in case someone else reads your tweet)
On Monday or Tuesday, I'll pick a random user from those responses and mail that person a free book. I'd sign it, but the blue book is Drew's baby and I don't wanna take credit for it since he did the lion's share of the work on it.
If you already follow me, just send me the message and you'll be entered
If you don't have a twitter account, get one. They're free.
