DEXSOFT-GAMES.COM released FREE model pack for indie developers

dexsoft-games.com — In order to support Indie game developers we released Barrels model pack for FREE. 14 low poly barrels and crates models, textures range from 512 to 1024 px size, ready to use in your 3D work. This pack supports the following model file formats: * » 3DS MAX (3DS) * » Blitz-Basic (B3D) * » Torque Engine (DTS) * » Lightwave (LWO) * » Milkshape (MS3D) * » Wavefront (OBJ) * » 3D-Gamestudio (MDL) Enjoy DEXSOFT Team read more...

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PathEngine Announces SDK Release 5.17

published 2 days, 10 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 2 days, 11 hours ago

pathengine.com — PathEngine announces release 5.17.00 of their pathfinding and agent movement SDK, with the main focus being some very significant optimisations to the SDK preprocess save and load mechanisms. read more...

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Ad4Game - New add network

psantos-blog.zi-yu.com — Ad network for the game industry. read more...

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New XNA Content Available!

published 3 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 4 days ago

creators.xna.com — The XNA Team announces a new set of educational content for XNA Game Studio: Artificial Intelligence: Flocking - Learn how to enable complex, emergent behavior in groups by using simple logic. Shadow Series 1: Basic Shadow Mapping - Learn how to cast basic shadows on a scene, with a movable camera and self-shadowing. Shader Series 5: Multipass Lighting - Learn how to utilize multipass rendering to illuminate objects with many lights at once read more...

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RenderTarget and DepthStencilBuffer Helper

published 3 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 4 days ago

ziggyware.com — Ziggyware has an article that has a nice and simple RenderTarget and DepthStencilBuffer Helper. It was created to help in the creation and use of Render Targets and Depth Stencil Buffers in XNA. This article comes with a working sample for you to check out, made in XNA Game Studio 2.0 read more...

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Tools of the Trade: Part Three - CLRProfiler « Pandemonium

published 3 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 3 days, 23 hours ago

bittermanandy.wordpress.com — bittermanandy has posted his 3rd part of his "Tools of the Trade" series of posts, and this time around he discusses another great .NET tools a programmer can have... CLRProfiler. read more...

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The Casual Independent Game Development Blog

published 3 days, 22 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 3 days, 23 hours ago

casualindie.com — CasualIndie.com is a blog about the casual game side of indie games and development. This blog features regular guest authors writing short pieces about newsworthy subjects or practical tips. Developers, aspiring developers, publishers, distributors, and even players of casual and independent games will find posts here of interest. The blog’s editor and chief author is Joshua Dallman, an independent developer as Red Thumb Games and a game producer at GarageGames. read more...

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Game AI Roundup Week #35 2008: 10 Stories, 2 Videos, 1 Paper

published 4 days, 11 hours ago, submitted by Novack 5 days, 2 hours ago

aigamedev.com — Weekends at AiGameDev.com are dedicated to rounding up smart links from the web relating to artificial intelligence and game development. This week, we have a variety of topics, some videos and a paper; as always, there are some good articles and blog posts for you to read. Remember, there’s also lots of great content to be found in the forums here! (All you have to do is introduce yourself.) Also don’t forget the Twitter account for random thoughts! read more...

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