GDNet: Weekend Reading
by Drew -Gaiiden- Sikora · 07/17/2010 (4:29 am) · 0 comments
Entries from 7/9 - 7/16
Light reading this week! Everyone have a good weekend :)
Journal Land Pick of the Week
Promit's Ventspace - Promit has a serious beef with Windows Installer from a development stand point and wonders how this could be the case if so many people working at the company that develops it on the platform its used for could let this happen
Welcome back, Alpha_ProgDes!
From the Staff
* Continuous Refinement - superpig has done some work to cut down on our current hosting costs by slimming down our bandwidth - which kinda helps you too since it will make the site a bit more snappy. Okay it's more of a placebo for you performance-wise but it will help us on the costs end of things. He also apologizes to anyone still stuck on IE6 or earlier. And I'm sorry to. Not because we aren't trying to support it anymore - just because.
Project Updates
* Wavesonics Pseudo-Random Journal Generator - While Wavesonics' scheme for "Distributed Planar Key Encryption" didn't turn out as well as he wanted, he details what he's accomplished so far and has a working demo that can be downloaded and source that can be poked at
Gamedev Stuffs
* Journal of dbaumgart - So you have a game that you made with a large fan base donating money for development but you are unwilling to give up sole creative control over your long-lasting, ever-developing title. What could happen? Well, seems an impatient fan could go and create his own game in your game's image and give you some competition. dbaumgart outlines this, which describes the current situation of Dwarf Fortress and Goblin Camp
* Digitanks Development Journal - BSVino talks about his method of problem solving: Simplify, organize, prioritize. It's also how he stays sane during development
Thanks for dropping by O-san, Mathucub, ApochPiQ
Light reading this week! Everyone have a good weekend :)
Journal Land Pick of the Week
Promit's Ventspace - Promit has a serious beef with Windows Installer from a development stand point and wonders how this could be the case if so many people working at the company that develops it on the platform its used for could let this happen
Welcome back, Alpha_ProgDes!
From the Staff
* Continuous Refinement - superpig has done some work to cut down on our current hosting costs by slimming down our bandwidth - which kinda helps you too since it will make the site a bit more snappy. Okay it's more of a placebo for you performance-wise but it will help us on the costs end of things. He also apologizes to anyone still stuck on IE6 or earlier. And I'm sorry to. Not because we aren't trying to support it anymore - just because.
Project Updates
* Wavesonics Pseudo-Random Journal Generator - While Wavesonics' scheme for "Distributed Planar Key Encryption" didn't turn out as well as he wanted, he details what he's accomplished so far and has a working demo that can be downloaded and source that can be poked at
Gamedev Stuffs
* Journal of dbaumgart - So you have a game that you made with a large fan base donating money for development but you are unwilling to give up sole creative control over your long-lasting, ever-developing title. What could happen? Well, seems an impatient fan could go and create his own game in your game's image and give you some competition. dbaumgart outlines this, which describes the current situation of Dwarf Fortress and Goblin Camp
* Digitanks Development Journal - BSVino talks about his method of problem solving: Simplify, organize, prioritize. It's also how he stays sane during development
Thanks for dropping by O-san, Mathucub, ApochPiQ
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