GameGame 1.0 Released

By GBGames, on September 30th, 2005%

GameGame announced the release of GameGame 1.0, a brainstorming tool to help with game design. It’s a card game that you can play to make a game.

Each card represents game design elements, such as a Goal or Theme. When you want to have something for the player to do, add a Game . . . → Read More: GameGame 1.0 Released

I remember when I first read The Scratchware Manifesto detailing the problems with the game industry’s economic and development models. I thought that it was a nice read but probably written by someone who might not actually know about the game industry.

Then Greg Costikyan reveals that he was the author of the piece, shocking . . . → Read More: Manifesto Games

More Collective Knowledge: Wikibooks

By GBGames, on September 29th, 2005%

I found this news item on ZDNet: As the Wikibooks website says, it is a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.

Wikipedia already has a huge amount of up-to-date content, and so I wasn’t sure what the difference would be. After all, they both use MediaWiki as the server software, so wouldn’t . . . → Read More: More Collective Knowledge: Wikibooks

An Open Source Alternative to Google Earth

By GBGames, on September 29th, 2005%

NewsForge reports on NASA’s World Wind project. While the images in Google Earth of higher quality, the functionality is mostly the same.

Apparently World Wind is still Windows only. It was written in C#, which wouldn’t be much of a problem, but it also uses DirectX, which is. But it is open source, and . . . → Read More: An Open Source Alternative to Google Earth

Oracle’s Eye Development: I Broke The Build

By GBGames, on September 28th, 2005%

A few days ago I updated my Debian Gnu/Linux system. Today I sat down to get some really productive work completed for Oracle’s Eye. Since I didn’t know where to start, I decided to build the project, run what I have, and then make a decision on what to do from there. Sounds good, right?

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