April 20, 2004 - Eugene, OR – GarageGames announced today that it has released its award-winning network code as the stand-alone, cross-platform Torque Network Library (TNL) under their trademark 'indie' license, a full commercial license and a GPL Open Source license. The Torque Networ... Read more »
CrossCut Games has released the source code and a fully unlocked playable version of RuneSword 2, a Windows based "CRPG designed to appeal to 'pen and paper' role-players. The game comes with two full-length adventures, a number of smaller adventures, and a completely flexible cons... Read more »
Microsoft has posted the The Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. The Visual C++ Toolkit is a free edition of Microsoft’s professional Visual C++ optimizing compiler and standard libraries – the same optimizing compiler and standard libraries that ship in Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional. More informatio... Read more »
Digit-Life has posted an article about DirectX Next, the upcoming version that will follow DirectX 9.0. The author discusses the current and future generations cards and the features they will offer. " NVIDIA's new architecture will finally obtain the long-anticipated MRT feature allowi... Read more »
Join Course PTR at the Xtreme Game Developers' Xpo (XGDX), October 9-10, 2004, in Mountain View, California, and share your passion for games! If you've attended this show in the past, then you know that XGDX takes gaming to the extreme. Don't miss this opportunity to exchange idea... Read more »
SAN FRANCISCO (April 6, 2004) – The Art Institute of California – San Francisco invites high school seniors with talent, commitment, and ability in the fields of applied arts and design to apply for partial- or full-tuition scholarships in its 2004 scholarship competition. Scholarships are availa... Read more »
The article An Introduction To Genetic Algorithms originally published here, has been translated into Spanish. You can get the article from the following website: sokanet.sourceforge.net, Please feel free to read and express any comments or questions to me. This noticed is published here at the r... Read more »
March 16, 2004 - Washington, DC – IT GlobalSecure Inc. has released a major new version of its SecurePlay software package for Java™ technology. SecurePlay simplifies multi-player game development and protects network games against cheating. Network and multi-player games are the heart of the nex... Read more »
We've moved the site to a faster server. In addition to the increased speed, we're also updating the whole site with a new look and feel, new features and better navigation. GameVision SDK, demos and related files are all online and can be downloaded there. Notable features: * Running on Read more »
DevLib 1.2 has been released at http://www.devlib-central.org. It is designed to make multimedia productions (games, screen-savers, demos..) easier and more intuitive to write. The following changes have been made : - added support for compiled meshes - added console featuring XML load/save conte... Read more »
People usually prefer to talk only of their successes. But James Gwertzman has given a rare insight into the downfall of a game development studio. The author mentions: " Escape Factory had it all: a fat contract for the development of a PS2/Xbox platformer, a close partnership with Valve, m... Read more »
Henry Yuen has written an article for DevMaster.net, in which he discusses the idea of using Binary Search Trees (BSTs) to render objects in the desired order. The article can be found at http://www.devmaster.net/articles/rendering_trees/ Read more »
AUSTIN, Texas, March 29, 2004 – The Game Initiative today announced its “Los Angeles How To Break Into Video Game Industry: Conference and Resume Workshop” will take place in Los Angeles May 8, 2004 at Mount St. Mary’s College just days before the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) show. The Read more »
Gameversity, the online education website for game developers, is launching the following seven new courses in April and May: C++ for Game Programmers by Saurav Mohapatra Mathematics Refresher by Jesse Laeuchli Shadow Volumes by Hun Yen Kwoon Advanced OpenGL Shader Programming by Jesse Laeuchli M... Read more »
The Game Developers Conference is preparing to say good-bye to its old home in San Jose, and move to nearby San Francisco to facilitate further growth. The GDC has attracted some significant attention this year due to the speculation that Microsoft would show Xbox 2 software for the first time. Read more »
The Java.net development community has launched a Game Development Contest and with around $50,000 in prizes. According to the post, Sun would like to further encourage great game development and continue to grow the adoption of the Java technology by sponsoring the 2004 Java Technology Game Deve... Read more »
