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GDC Online: How to create a diverse team and keep it
Donald Harris and Sheri Graner Ray hosted a round table on my last day at GDC Online about diversity in game studios. Why I Went The topic sounded interesting to me – diversity in my mind was a given...
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GDC Online: Writing the Whirlwind (Joseph Staten)
Why I went Halo is a successful franchise with a loved universe spawning a wide array of products. I am keenly interested in how he made that vision a reality and what tools were used over more than...
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Cover Fire for Coders
By Paul Evans ( twitter | blog | Linkedin ) – Originally posted on #AltDevBlogADay You are coding away and suddenly realize that there is a vital piece of new data you need to propagate through the...
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Cats have nine lives
(Originally posted #AltDevBlogADay) “Oh no I died again!” – not something you generally get to say in real life is it? Yet gamers readily accept death as a temporary failure state – just a blip...
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(Audio Post) Round Table: DLC
I decided to gather a few friends from around the studio to informally discuss downloadable content around a table over lunch. This is the first time I have tried anything like this so please keep that...
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Do or do not
Assertion is a valuable tool that many languages provide, but recently I have come to think it is used too much and in the wrong places. I put forward the idea that asserts should not be found...
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The XmlSerializer class in C# is asymmetric
C# coders choosing XmlSerializer for their game data beware. When using the DefaultValueAttribute on members of a class being later processed by XmlSerializer, a perfect copy of an object written may...
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Micro Talks
This is a quick write up of my thoughts about the micro talk format, its use in Lionhead’s "Creative Day" and the talks organized by IGDA Austin held at historic Studio 6A (home of Austin City Limits...
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Let me introduce you to Gameduino
What is a Gameduino? It is an Arduino based gaming device that is a mixture between a science experiment and a classic gaming micro. It provides the kind of platform I grew up with (Oric-1, Acorn...
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Mastering Dart by Sergey Akopkokhyants – Book Review
Summary 3 out of 5 There are not many Dart books published yet but there is some good information collected in this book. I disagree with some of the content, but chapters are a good length and have...
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