Hi all, My name is Richard Rabil, and I’m a recent student member of IGDA and a participant in the Writing and Tools SIGs. I’d like to invite you to take a short, anonymous survey I’m conducting on software tools for interactive storytelling. Ultimately, my goal is to evaluate a set of authoring tools for [...]
Submissions are now open for Game Development Tools 2. It will be edited by Marwan Y. Ansari, and published by CRC Press/A. K. Peters. The currently targeted publish date is for release at Siggraph 2012. Some possible topics include: Content Pipeline tools (creation, streamlining, management) Graphics/Rendering tools Profiling tools Collada import/export/inspection tools Sound tools In-Game [...]
The IGDA Tools SIG has a new discussion group! We’re moving from using the IGDA hosted Mailman group (called Tools-Discuss) to a Google Group called The Toolsmiths. The purpose of the group is to provide a discussion forum for all types of game tools development, from command line tools, to UI-focused tools, and middleware applications. [...]
Are you knee deep in iOS programming? Perhaps looking to get your feet wet? If so, the generous folks at the iPhone Developers Conference (happening next month in Philadelphia) sent along a free pass to one of our readers. To enter the drawing send us an email explaining what your favorite game development tool is [...]
I thought I would bring to the community’s attention this new book on Game Development Tools that’s looking for submissions. Here’s the call: We invite you to submit a proposal for an innovative article to be included in a forthcoming book, Game Development Tools, which will be edited by Marwan Y. Ansari and published by [...]
03.08Adult Beverages
If you are free at 6:00 PM on Thursday come out for some drinks during GDC. We will be at The Thirsty Bear Brewing Company. Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/burnblue/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
03.03Follow us on Twitter
The Toolsmiths now have a twitter feed here (thetoolsmiths). Blog posts should be tweeted there, and we will drop some tweets about happenings at GDC.
10.05Site Update
Hello! I am happy to announce that our humble blog has just moved over to a new host (from WordPress.com) and is sporting a shiny new domain name thetoolsmiths.org! This opens the door to adding new content to the blog with plugins (polls, etc…) as well as making it possible to add new features besides [...]
The IGDA Tools SIG is proud to announce that we are relaunching the IGDA Tools blog with new authors, new technology, and a new name, The Toolsmiths! Along with a new design, we have enlisted the help of 3 new authors, all of which have a very clear opinion on game industry tools. All of [...]