Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land

posted in Gaiiden's Scroll

Published September 20, 2014

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

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