Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land

And we're back to just the boring old title as I realize that the journal listing page cuts the date off. Oh well, just keep an eye on the update date, people. Here are your entries from 9/13 - 9/20

Welcome new authors Burnt Dragon, dsm1891 and Juliean!

Week of Awesome Participants

• ryan20fun's Journal of Rasterisation
  
• RenegadeNinjaNL's Journal
  
• Eck's Journal - Still Flying
  
• Xaer0's Journal
  
• The Week of Awesome II: Thaumaturge
  
• The week of awesome II - shadowisadog
  
  And some advice from Orymus3. I have some old yet good advice to participants as well.
  
  Project Updates
  
  
  • Robot University -- a 2D DirectX Puzzle - puz's latest update to his hexadecagon maze software is to allow you to print out the generated maze, and is looking to see if people can do so on their printers.
    
  • Island Troll Tribes - zebrakiller introduces you to the game's first playable character, the Hunter
    
  • Sporniket's log - Game programming while having a busy life - Sporniket has some basic game functionality in, and shows some new screenshots
    
  • A Keyboard and the Truth - EDI has a new company logo and updates on Revel Immortal
    
  • Caveman - Norman Barrows has implemented the raypicking code he posted last week into his game for a real world example, and has also posted code for his party member AI
    
  • et1337 makes games - et1337 is still bogged down in contract work but still takes some time to show off what he's been working on
    
  • cyberspace009's Journal - cyberspace009 assures us he isn't dead, outlines some plans for moving forward
    
  • Riuthamus's Freelance - riuthamus shares an updated alpha screenshot of a room interior for his project
    
  • Gregory's Development Journal - Gregory Cheyney discusses the use of variable types in his RPG maker
    
    Game Dev Stuffs
    
    
    • There is no escape from the Washu - Washu has covered SlimGen in previous entries and now addresses the question "just how much of a difference can using SlimGen make?"
      
    • Gamieon's Journal - Gamieon has a great write up on his experience getting some soccer AI working in Unreal Engine, along with source code, references and video of it in action
      
    • My Journal - Lysergide has started a series of articles on extending the Unity editor, starting with creating menu items
      
    • Gregory's Development Journal - Gregory Cheyney invites you to share your thoughts on whether "solo development" is ever a literal term, or mostly figurative
      
    • The Bag of Holding - ApochPiQ offers up "A Quick Introduction to Sampler-Based Profiling"
      
      Other Stuffs
      
      
      • Blue stain - alfith has some more cool papercraft projects to share!