07Mar State of the Developers
95 viewsThe past week has been extremely busy for me as both work and my personal research projects consume most of my waking moments. However, I believe that it is important more than ever to continue my blogging as it helps me remember the little bits of wisdom I stumble upon and to keep a working achieve of notes to reflect on. Otherwise these things become forgotten in the hussle of the present. Well without further ado, here are some collected tidbits of information from across the internet:
Quelsolaar Blog (http://news.quelsolaar.com/)
This is a fantastic blog of Eskil Steenberg who is both an amazing C developer but also humanitarian. He has a fantastic knowledge of shaders, networking, color theory, real-time modeling, and abstract game theory. His blog covers some of these items as well as some great topics on humanitarian subjects.
Scarygirl being developed by Touchmypixel is a very impressive Flash game. However, I couldn’t find any information on when it will be released.
Shred Nebula, a small game studio in California, released its documents (http://www.shrednebula.com/design.html) that details their XBLA game used for pitching to Microsoft. With over 35 pages of amazing conceptual illustrations and information, they where accepted, and their game sold fairly well. Below is a picture of their home brew studio. I love the comfy armchairs for the projector demo setup and the arcade machine in the corner.
Last but not least, I found an interesting video on FORA that talks about the concept of metacognition:
Have any links about the development world that you found interesting? Please do post them below!
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Author: Jonathan Dunlap Jonathan is a veteran software architect, author of IsoHill, humanitarian, and has worked with Bigpoint Inc, CrowdStar, ePrize, and Microsoft. |
March 26th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Hi,
The game is almost ready to play (going through final approvals), but in the meantime we’ve got this juicy final trailer for you (http://vimeo.com/3812568) which should show a lot more of the game than you saw last time.
Hope you like it, and thanks for the support previously. Knowing that people are interested in what we’re doing has kept us going over the last year.
The Scarygirl game is being released on http://www.Scarygirl.com very soon, as a free to play Flash game. It has over 14 levels of gameplay which include platforming and adventure elements as well as physics based bike riding and even a street Street Fighter style fighting game.