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
First off, our official Tools SIG gathering at GDC is on Thursday 1:30 to 2:30 at the IGDA booth. Everyone should also show up to at least one of John Walker’s excellent roundtables. I find them useful to see what approaches people are using in their pipelines and share lessons learned from the past year. [...]
02.21GDC Approaches
GDC gets closer every day. This year, instead of doing an official IGDA roundtable to talk SIG business, we’ve decided to just get together for beers at a local bar. The location and time is yet to be determined, but I would like to find out what night the membership / readers would prefer. So [...]
04.02Back from GDC
The Toolsmiths are now all back fro m GDC (I’ve been on site with clients the past week) so we should probably recap some of what happened. Geoff, thankfully, has already posted the notes / slides from his talk, and I’ve now filled in the Tools SIG wiki with some of the notes I was [...]
Thanks to everyone that was able to show up to my talk at GDC. I thought it went very well, and I got a lot of good questions and feedback after the lecture. The focal points of the lecture were: Indirection of file locations using unique IDs instead of string paths to allow files to [...]
03.16GDC Times Solidified
We’re just one week away from GDC and the times for most of the talks have been solidified. The links in my previous post will be able to tell you where and when to catch some tools related talks. This includes our official Tools SIG Round Table, which I will be moderating. Note that, while [...]
It’s time again to highlight the people that keep us authors on our toes and instigate the excellent discussion that we really want as part of this blog. I know I said I wanted this to be a weekly feature, but it looks as if we’ll be doing them a bit less frequent than that, [...]
02.03A Preview of GDC
GDC has several tools centered talks this year, and I wanted to give everyone a heads up about a few of them (especially because searching for “tool’ or “tools” brings up every session that wants to give you the tools to succeed). First, as happens every year, John Walker will be hosting his usual Technical [...]