Geez can't believe how fast this month is moving. Hope everyone is staying sane this holiday season between work and shopping... and work... and shopping... and, well you get the picture. This week's sitrep is somewhat brief, not much noteworthy this week besides my first update to the event calendar, which I've gone through and pulled the events from last year through the month of April. Next week I'll go through and add events from May - July. Be sure to let me know of any I missed!
New Resources
Dynamic 3D Scene Graphs - Scene graphs used in most games today are actually scene trees, defined offline by artists. Interesting features can be achieved by instead defining offline a set of rules that explain how to generate a scene tree. By dynamically building the scene tree from a set of rules at run-time, we can support true scene graphs (scene graphs with cycles in them) as well as the ability to host environments with objects of drastically different scales (such as leaves, trees, solar systems and galaxies).
New Events
- Game Unconference @ Shefayim, Israel - December 19, 2008
- Nordic Game Jam @ Copenhagen, Denmark - January 30, 2009 to February 1, 2009
- Casual Connect Europe in Hamburg @ Hamburg, Germany - February 10, 2009 to February 12, 2009
- DICE Summit @ Las Vegas, NV, United States - February 18, 2009 to February 20, 2009
- i3D - Symposium on Interactive 3D & Games @ Boston, MA, United States - February 27, 2009 to March 1, 2009
- SXSW Interactive Festival @ Austin, TX, United States - March 13, 2009 to March 17, 2009
- Games Grads North @ Manchester, United Kingdom - March 17, 2009
- ICE - Interactive Content Exchange @ Toronto, Canada - March 17, 2009 to March 19, 2009
- MI6 Game Marketing Conference @ San Francisco, CA, United States - April 7, 2009 to April 8, 2009
- Indie MMO Game Developers Conference @ Las Vegas, NV, United States - April 17, 2009 to April 19, 2009
- Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology @ Singapore - May 11, 2009 to May 13, 2009
- Casual Connect Seattle @ Seattle, WA, United States - July 21, 2009 to July 23, 2009
- GDC China @ Shanghai, China - October 11, 2009 to October 13, 2009
- Casual Connect Kyiv @ Kiev, Ukraine - October 21, 2009 to October 23, 2009
- Southwest Gaming Expo @ Dallas, TX, United States - November 20, 2009 to November 22, 2009
