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I don’t know what the world is coming to, either, but I do know that Panda3D 1.2.0 has been released. And what super cool about this release is that I can say that Panda3D is free AND it has been used in several commercial games, some of which you shall see if you attend E3 this year.
Here are some of the many new features of Panda3d:

lots of performance optimizations
a preliminary OSX port
new modes for animation blending
easier partial-body animations
more powerful shader-to-engine interface
better support for rotating bodies in physics engine
support for compressed …read more

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Ohhh, this is super awesome. A new version of the Irrlicht 3d Engine (and no, I did not sneeze… seriously, that’s the name of the engine. Irrlicht.) has been released for the perusal of all you hard core 3d game fans.
Now, I personally have never used this engine, but apparently it’s got some pretty bad assed features including:

Enhanced software rasterizer: 32 bit rendering, dynamic lights, more materials.
Support for the Code::Blocks IDE
Microsoft .dll hell awareness (no more abort and ‘d3dx9_xx.dll not found’ messages), Irrlicht will also operate if some of these dlls can not be loaded.
Better support …read more

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Yep… that’s right. I’m bringing you news about a conference BEFORE it has taken place and been sold out. You guys should really be thankful. Heh.
Anyways… The 2007 Game Developers Conference has been confirmed AND it is taking place in San Fransisco once again. Ohhh, the glory. Who doesn’t love San Fran? So, even if you don’t want to go to this nerd fest of a conference, you can still sit outside the location of the conference at Moscone North & West and just watch the nerds wander in and out of the conference hall …read more

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ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is putting on an expo called “I Create Music”… which, I’m assuming is for all the people out there… who… create… music.
Specifically it sounds like this expo is for people who design game music. Whoa! This sounds like something you musically inclined peeps should attend… epecially if you want to hob nob with all the coolest people who create music for games.
Dis es how Game Dev describes the expo:

The first national conference dedicated entirely to songwriting and composing will be held April 20 – …read more

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It just might be! I was checking out GameDev, because I’m super nerdy like that and I came across this very interesting headline: PSP 2 in the works?.
They’re saying that this new system will probably be out in as little as 3 years, but with the way the PS 3 is going, I’m thinking that it might be more like 5 to 10 years…
I’m a pessimist… I know.
You still love me, right?

Reports suggest that the new PSP will have a built in hard drive support from the beginning and will not be using …read more

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Of course you do! And there’s a new contest out there that will allow you to do just that! Win money!
(are you convinced that you need to win money yet?)
What’s even better is that it’s being hosted by Intel. Now, Intel is advertising that you could win money, a powerful pc or some really cool development tools, so why not give it a try?
All you have to do is send in a game demo that you have created and they’ll sit around, check out the demo, do some backflips and then boogie on down to …read more

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No, not ho, ho… but… ho ho ho. Like Santa. I would never call you a ho. I’d call Howdy Doody a ho, though. Puppets scare me.
Anyways, I’m just flew in from my adventure in Utah and boy are my arms tired! HAH HAH!
Oh wait, that was always a lame joke.
Please forget I ever said anything.
I had a lot of fun on my vacation and I had a lot of work to catch up on, so that’s where I’ve been, not that any of you actually care. Because… like, the only people who leave comments …read more

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Yep… I am going on vacation to the snowy planes of Utah. Pray that I do not hydroplane off the icy freeways! That’s never fun… I’ll be back on March 20th, so come back then… or keep coming back until then and be bored. Your choice!

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Damn, I was trying to go for alliteration for my title. It didn’t work… at all.
Kangaroo. I’m a freak.
Anyways, news from GameDev says that Click Gamer, a website devoted to PDA/Mobile games and the like are putting on a competition for you, the awesome developer of games. If you like to program PDA games, now is your chance to submit them and get money from it.
It looks like Click Gamer will allow you to submit a game and they will give you $5,000 worth of free advertising to promote your game. And the best part is that …read more

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While checking out Game Dev, I ran into this intriguing article that makes me want to kill some aholes! Well, maybe not kill, but the article still made me upset.
There’s a guy out there by the name of Jeff Vogel who is a game developer… actually, I’m lazy, here’s the Wikipedia entry on the guy:

Jeff Vogel is the primary programmer for the company Spiderweb Software, which produces shareware computer games for Macintosh and Windows PC platforms.
To date, his most successful games have been the Exile series, its facelifted cousin Avernum, and Geneforge.

Okay, background completed.
Anyways, this is a …read more

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