Here are your Journal Land entries from the period of 6/30 - 7/7
Stop by and give a welcome to new authors jsnape183, studentTeacher and DareDeveloper!
Project Updates
- Wilhelm's Journal - Wilhelm van Huyssteen has the latest updates to Strife ready for players to download and checkout including currency, vendors and usable items. Images and a video show off this and more
- DMD 'Ware - polyfrag has read some material (linked) that's given him an idea for his hidden surface removal algorithm for the editor, which can now also work with textures.
- RuinValor - Birth of Talos - riuthamus updates on RuinValor with some new images and concept art and discusses progress on shaders, character models and objects like the catapult. Also plans for a press demo.
- Squared'D's Journal - Squared'D has diverted attention from his text-based game to work also on a new project. He already has a test download out for it.
- BGBTech: The Status Update - cr88192 brainstorms and braindumps thoughts on creating a fast image format for his engine
- Orange Chair Software Development - Navyman talks about the next micro-sim project for Portas Aurora that helps design the largest map areas the player can explore
- Fran Bow, a point & click adventure - bladderbloat announces the indiegogo campaign for Fran Bow, and also has a videoblog update out.
- Beals Software - Programmer16 has a videoblog update and also talks about an upcoming Facebook contest, Amazon affiliate status, website and shares a game screenshot
- Pixel ? Tile ? World - Servant of the Lord gives his editor a GUI makeover
- The Bag of Holding - ApochPiQ has updates on the progress towards making a self-hosting compiler for his Epoch coding language
- Miscellaneous Programming Notebook - Bacterius updates on his crypto library work
- Lotus: Tales of the Lost Ones - Arthur Souza is the latest to take up the challenge of a self-made 48hr game jam, be sure to check his journal for regular updates as this progresses.
Game Dev Stuffs- Leadwerks Developer Blog - Josh Klint is pleased to announce that the Leadwerks engine has been greenlit for Steam, and the Linux kickstarter is doing well
- Squared'D's Journal - Squared'D talks about the implementation of his post-processing framework
- achild's Journal - achild has an excellent entry that looks back on the development of his 2D skeletal animation program Basis, and how it was finally sculpted into a usable application and something worthy of an actual release
- Somewhere in space - AaronWizardstar shares code for "my take on an ostensibly light-yet-flexible core of a GUI system"
- Nightmaare Shares - Koshmaar has a detailed What Went Right/What Went Wrong postmortem on his first indie commercial game Ninja Cat and Zombie Dinosaurs
- Gunthera's Journal - Gunthera (formerly HabitueGames) has a short PM of his recently-released project Demolition Dan
Thanks for stopping by, JTippetts
- Leadwerks Developer Blog - Josh Klint is pleased to announce that the Leadwerks engine has been greenlit for Steam, and the Linux kickstarter is doing well