Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land

Considering heading out to the Develop Conference in Brighton this July? Well if you are you can get 10% off registration using the code [color=#0b1710][font=arial][size=2]DEV14AF2[/font][/color]. Additionally, if anyone agrees to write about it in their journal or as an article, we do have some passes we can get you.

So then, here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 5/9 - 5/17

Say hello to new journal author ShawnGreer!

Project Updates

• et1337 makes games - et1337's latest Screenshot Saturday entry for Lemma looks at another improved character model, improved animation and a cool trick for better shadows
  
• DareDeveloper's Journal - DareDeveloper is looking for any math whizzes to give him a hand with symmetry math, and also has switched his game's rendering to isometric
  
• RuinValor - Birth of Talos - riuthamus has a render of a gorgane decked out in cool warpaint and has added a new music section to the RuinValor website
  
• From End to Beginning - coremarq goes over some improvements he's made lately to his roguelike dungeon generator and shows some examples
  
• Mein lebenswerk! ?(????) - polyfrag is back to work on Corporation States and has a video of 200 units pathfinding around without too much of a performance hit
  
• Journal of Aardvajk - Aardvajk is showing off his new level editor capable of creating game maps
  
• Shane C's Journal - Shane C returns to Journal Land with a project he's been working on that you can download and try out
  
• SpeedRun's Journal - SpeedRun continues to refine his skills on simple game clones - a great practice. You can check out his breakout clone now
  
  Game Dev Stuffs
  
  
  • StarInc Android Development - bwiersma summarizes some things learned in the last two years of game making - not so much money making unfortunately but they are still happy to have so many people playing their games
    
  • Nightmaare Shares - Koshmaar has a great writeup about his experiences exhibiting his project at Polish game industry conference Digital Dragons
    
    Other Stuffs
    
    
    • My Journal - Lysergide is looking for any feedback on his newly-updated CV
      
    • Ramblings of a partialy sane programmer - blewisjr continues his foray into his micro circuitry drone project and talks at length about setting up an embedded development environment