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Get to know evolutional...  Moderator - Alternative Game Libraries
Full Name Oli Wilkinson
Nickname evolutional 
State/Province, Country West Yorkshire   United Kingdom
GD Gathering City Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Creating Moddable Games with XML and Scripting Part I
Introduction to GameMonkey Script Part 1
Introduction to GameMonkey Script Part 2
Using XML Technologies For Enhancing Log Files
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The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at November 11, 2009 6:12:59 PMModern What?: The big news today is that the release of Modern Warfare 2 has seen the game sell over 1.23 million units in a single day in the UK. This doubles the previous... 
Posted November 11, 2009 1:12:59 PM
The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at November 18, 2009 3:29:37 PMModern Wealth: Modern Warfare 2 has been good for Activision, Grossing over $550million in 5 days. It’s also been good for Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who’s bee... 
Posted November 18, 2009 3:29:37 PM
The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at November 4, 2009 6:41:21 PMBearing fruit: Apple have confirmed (after third party speculation) that there is now over 100,000 apps on the App Store - a gushing endorsement. Whilst perhaps over edi... 
Posted November 4, 2009 1:41:21 PM
The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at October 28, 2009 8:58:39 PMUnity goes Free: Good news for Indies. Those nice people at Unity have slashed the price of Unity Indie to a pocket-friendly $0, that’s right - zip, nada, nowt. Along w... 
Posted October 28, 2009 3:58:39 PM
The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at October 21, 2009 6:30:12 PM It’s Wednesday again and it’s dark in the mornings now. I’m not happy - do you know how hard it’s getting to drag my carcass out of its sleep pit? &... 
Posted October 21, 2009 1:30:12 PM
The Role of an Audio Programmer Code to Joy, a feature interviewing an audio programmer and talking about the role they play in game development. Useful for people looking for specific role information in the industry. 
Posted October 22, 2009 2:51:38 AM
Edge Magazine's "Get Into Games" feature I posted in my news a couple of weeks ago, but I found this an interesting read for anyone looking to break into games. Get Into games 
Posted October 20, 2009 2:42:42 AM
The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at October 14, 2009 6:19:36 PMAMD graphics in the next XBox?: At least that’s the rumour circulating from Fudzilla, who also claim we can see the next system in 2012. Nvidia chips in the next Nin... 
Posted October 14, 2009 1:19:36 PM
The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at October 7, 2009 6:39:01 PMHere we are, sitting on a spinning rock that’s hurtling through space at some insane speed and wishing that it was Wednesday and we had pie. I can’t help with... 
Posted October 7, 2009 1:39:01 PM
The Daily GameDev.net The Daily GameDev.netPosted by: Oli Wilkinson at September 30, 2009 6:50:17 PMIt’s Wednesday - that lovely place in which it’s a free run downhilll to the weekend. Unless you work weekends, in which case you’re probably not a fan. E... 
Posted September 30, 2009 1:50:17 PM
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The Daily GameDev.net Quote:Original post by swiftcoder Quote:Original post by ZeRaW The standard security protection used by apple has been cracked for ages now, apps should use their own methods to combat piracy. . .What bothers me is how these statistics demonstrate... 
Posted November 19, 2009 8:14:08 AM
The Daily GameDev.net Quote:Original post by Lord Crc May I ask what the point is in using short url's for a non-twitter post such as this? Having surfed the internet for quite a while, I'll never click on an obfuscated link. Drew suggested we try the tr.im URLs... 
Posted November 19, 2009 8:10:45 AM
COD Modern Warfare 2 as a rail shooter Quote:Original post by NickGravelyn Quote:Original post by WorldPlanter Not that I want to misdirect the intention of your post but COD MW2 is nearly a rail shooter already.It just has a really big rail. :D Ha, it's true. Most times you can just... 
Posted November 17, 2009 8:13:59 PM
How Does The Game Programming Industry Work As A Career? Something worth reading 
Posted November 17, 2009 8:32:08 AM
C# & SDL XNA is a lot different to SDL... Whether it's easier or not depends on a lot of things. For C# and SDL, I believe the standard binding is the Tao.SDL library. 
Posted November 15, 2009 3:54:35 PM
How to embed an application on a web broser? Has anyone looked at the WebGL extensions? I know it's early days and beta, etc - but what's it like for speed? 
Posted November 15, 2009 3:51:10 PM
Having trouble running a windows app from C# Are you checking that the CurrentFolder is set as you expect? 
Posted November 15, 2009 7:21:42 AM
What was your reaction to COD4 Terrorist mission? Not sure why you couldn't just kill Makarov and end it right there. 
Posted November 15, 2009 4:04:05 AM
Best google logo ever I preferred the elmo one 
Posted November 10, 2009 3:13:58 AM
Learning C# a Good Idea? Quote:Original post by Ntvu Also is C# good for creating games? Unity is based on Mono, which supports C# as a development language. Plenty of people are using Unity to make games now, so it wouldn't be an obstacle.  
Posted November 8, 2009 4:50:29 PM
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