A new version of Hyperion Demo-System is available. This version adds new functionalities to manage the joints of the Ageia PhysX engine. Hyperion is a tool designed to help developers and technical artists quickly create and prototype real time 3D solutions: demos, benchmarks, little applications o ...

Considering there's been one news post per day this week, I don't see why Friday should be left out, because it is after all the coolest day of the week. TGIF! Hey all you GDnetters, have a great weekend and play/make lotsa games! ...

The IGDA Leadership Forums is an event focusing on advancing the state of the art in game production and management. To that end, industry pros from around the country gathered to share methods and ideas, like Mike Capps - President, Epic Games; Mike McShaffry - freelance developer; Tim Schafer ...

The Game Institute's fourth game challenge is beginning this Friday. Participants have a month to create a game based on guidelines announced at the start of the challenge using any technology. Purely for fun and personal achievement, there are no prizes except for the admiration of your peers. ...

The Discovery Channel is airing a 5-part series on how video games became an everyday aspect of our culture. The mini-series will air at 8pm (EST?) on Wednesdays for 5 weeks starting on Nov 21. [GameDaily] ...

I will only blog about things I have done; I will not blog about things I am going to do. More coming soon... ...

Today was my last day at GDC and, at that, it was quite a short one. While I was waiting outside of my first session, a woman came up to me and announced she was a speaker and asked if she could borrow my Mac cord. I said sure. She said I saved the conference. I said "I do what I can." My firs ...

I implemented some new types for PyEigen, including a 44 matrix class and benchmarks for it. Same methods as last time, but quite different results. <img src="http://www.brainfold.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/benchmark1.png" /> PyEigen is still fastest by far, which is pro ...

Well GDC 2010 finished for me yesterday as I caught my flight back to Toronto earlier in the day. It was a pretty awesome week and it was great hanging out with everybody from GDNet. It was really fun when nes8bit and I were scavenging for beer and food on the expo floor and did quite well... C ...

With the exception of Sid Meier's keynote, all the rest of the keynotes were linked to conference tracks, which were much more sporadically attended. The one big conference wide keynote was fairly well attended, but it was held in a much smaller hall. The title of Sid Meier's keynote was The Ps ...

Today I decided to to a simple Python and Ruby Syntax clarity check. Scope it out over at my blog. <a href="http://partsaneprog.wordpress.com/">http://partsaneprog.wordpress.com/</a> ...