Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land

posted in Gaiiden's Scroll

Published October 05, 2013

Catch-up time. Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 9/20 - 10/4

Hello and welcome to new authors FreOzgur, LeftyGuitar, Segmented and Shane C!
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Project Updates

/* Why you crying? */ - JTippetts has a demo of his 2D block world work available for download in the form of a side-scrolling expanse of terrain
BGBTech: The Status Update - BGB dumps thoughts on a tool to "take input video, try to up-sample it in a way which "hopefully doesn't look like crap", and save output video"
RuinValor - Birth of Talos - riuthamus has a video and image showing off the model for the Tormented Champion character
Wilhelm's Journal - Wilhelm van Huyssteen has some updates to Legends of Strife with videos demonstrating some of them, although he had to remove the test server to focus more on development for now
Merry Prankster Games - gdunbar needs some cover art for his Unannounced SENG Game and has details for anyone interested
Beals Software - Programmer16 hasn't been slacking like me in his weekly updates so stop by and get caught up on the last two weeks
Big Boss TV - Rottz has the latest news on his mobile project, saying although the game should be finished on schedule it won't be released for about another week to allow for balancing and testing
Leadwerks Developer Blog - Josh Klint comments on the recent SteamOS reveal along with Leadwerk's continuing progress on integrating with Linux
Pixel ? Tile ? World - Servant of the Lord mocks up a room in Of Stranger Flames to show the visual style he's going for
Gamieon's Journal - Gamieon looks at the first eight levels developed so far for Domino Arena and hopes to have a public beta ready in a week or so
Better Than Accounting - BensBucketGames has released Training for Aliens: UFO for Windows machines via IndieDB
The Bag of Holding - ApochPiQ has further updates on the progress of getting Epoch language self-hosted

Game Dev Stuffs

DMD 'Ware - polyfrag shares code and details on his UDP network system and how it makes sure all the data has arrived to execute properly
Bidimensional Dreams - dejaime has announced a new blog to guide people on "building Box2D for use with Code::Blocks and MinGW"
Chronicles of the Hieroglyph - Jason Z gets renewed once again as a Microsoft MVP for Visual C++ so congrats go out to him (and others here in the community that were awarded MVP honors this year). He also has news on Hieroglyph 4.
Richards Software Ramblings - ericrrichards22 continues to share lessons learned from the book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with Direct3D 11.0 by Frank Luna
The Bag of Holding - ApochPiQ is mentoring a programmer and upon reviewing his progress has made note of things that could benefit any young (less-experienced) programmer in the industry.

Other Stuffs