One open source project I have been keeping an eye on is CoApp. Microsoft is currently paying a Garrett Serack to develop an open binary and source package management platform for Windows. The goal is provide the ease of use and flexibility of linux-style package management on the Windows platform. This is exactly what Microsoft [...]

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This ongoing series delves more deeply into each of the “six reasons your game development tools suck” as argued in my very first post. At one company I worked for, we wrote our level design tool, as well as a cinematic tool on top of Maya.  The idea was that Maya already had an interface [...]

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