Blade Edge

For the past year I’ve been fortunate to be involved with the folks from Cengage Learning in working on a book series that has collected dozens of GameDev.net articles into 4 books for mass-market publishing. We at GDNet have know the Cengage folks for several years already, but this was my first chance to work [...]

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Great day today. Woke up early and got out to the conference venue early. Picked up Rich’s badge and went out to find something to eat for breakfast. Came back and chowed down while waiting for the keynote to start. Alex Seropian form Wideload Games gave a nice speech on the state [...]

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No resource sitrep this week because… hey – there’s no new content! Well, nothing you haven’t seen on the front page already anyways. Oh, wait – you don’t visit the front page? Well shame on you then!
Anyways, last week I was out in Seattle for the second annual ION [...]

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So I had the brilliant thought to edit the automatic first post generated for the article feedback thread to include a biography on the author(s). We have a bio field in the article admin, but I’ve never used it and I have no idea where it actually shows up. [...]

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Last week I walked through the process I take once every week to publish the newsletter, this week I’m going to go through the even longer process of publishing a Featured Article on the site.
But first, a word from our sponsor…
Just wanted to draw attention real quick to the [...]

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Intro
Well, this should be interesting. I decided last week to start a new series here in my journal to see if anyone at all cared about how I do some of the things I do here at GDNet that most of you witness the fruits of every week. I’ve [...]

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Yea. So I slept in on Thursday till like, 3pm so to make up for lost time I stayed up until noon today and then slept for about 4-5 hours. I’ll prob be up till around 4am tonight. I have to finish reviewing ~600 articles. Can’t say why yet, [...]

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With my GDC coverage complete, it’s that time of year again to look back at this past GDC and reflect on all aspects in order to be ready come next year.
The Good
Whoo hoo! Press-only wifi in the press lounge! Finally! The connection was so fast and constant that it was [...]

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IGF Interviews
Going very well, just got another batch of responses through today. It’s been less than a week and have already heard from over half of the finalists and nearly half of them are already into the second round of questioning. I have yet to decide how best to [...]

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Well, this coming Monday I will be departing north for Montreal to attend the Montreal International Games Summit. I just bought a digital voice recorder today so that I can tape sessions finally to improve my summaries and actually include more quotes in them too. My shorthand is [...]

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