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How do you work remotely with no producer?
How do you work remotely with no producer?
In a new Gamasutra postmortem, Zack Zero developers Carlos Abril and Alberto Moreno write that they cycled through a lot of tools for keeping a remote team working together until hitting just the right one.
July 3, 2012
In-depth: Photon mapping and baking light maps
In-depth: Photon mapping and baking light maps
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, game programer Simon Yeung shares an overview on how to bake light maps of indirect lighting data by sampling from the photon map.
July 3, 2012
GDC Online 2012 adds Zynga, Aion free to play, happiness talks
GDC Online 2012 adds Zynga, Aion free to play, happiness talks
GDC Online 2012 show organizers have revealed new talks for the October event covering Zynga's Draw Something backend infrastructure, lessons on making Aion free to play, and more.
July 3, 2012
Indian Navy secrets stolen and sent to China
Indian Navy secrets stolen and sent to China
Computers in India’s primary eastern seafront naval establishment at Visakhapatnam were reportedly infected with spyware that sent classified information to IP addresses in China.
July 3, 2012
Defense organizations to ramp up cybersecurity spending
Defense organizations to ramp up cybersecurity spending
Global defense organizations are expected to increase their cybersecurity budgets by an average of 6% over the next 12 months, according to a report by ICD Research and Strategic Defence Intelligence.
July 3, 2012
Protecting US secrets costs taxpayers big bucks
Protecting US secrets costs taxpayers big bucks
The cost to protect US government secrets reached more than $11 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2011, up 12% from FY 2010 and more than double the cost in FY 2001, according to a report by the National Archives.
July 3, 2012
Nick Griffin’s website taken down by Anonymous hackers
Nick Griffin’s website taken down by Anonymous hackers
British politician, chairman of the British National Party (BNP) and Member of the European Parliament for North West England Nick Griffin's offical website
July 3, 2012
Release This: Spelunky, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy arrive in North America
Release This: Spelunky, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy arrive in North America
Gamasutra's latest custom compiled worldwide release list explores a week that brings Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and an XBLA version of Spelunky to North America, while Japan gets Max Anarchy and Etrian Odyssey IV.
July 2, 2012
Tokyo Game Show and more in this week's Japanese news roundup
Tokyo Game Show and more in this week's Japanese news roundup
Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, including the opening of a new Sega subsidiary, promises of a larger Tokyo Game Show, and more.
July 2, 2012
Growing digital game sales not enough to compensate for weak retail
Growing digital game sales not enough to compensate for weak retail
Digital game sales are growing in the U.S., but those small gains weren't nearly enough to make up for plummeting software sales at retail during the first three months of the year.
July 2, 2012
Opinion: Promoting your indie game company with a podcast
Opinion: Promoting your indie game company with a podcast
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday opinion piece, Lost Decade Games co-founder Matt Hackett explains why indie developers should promote themselves with a podcast, and how they should go about doing so.
July 2, 2012
A long road to recovery for once-mighty THQ
A long road to recovery for once-mighty THQ
After Monday's stock split, the "heavy lifting is done" keeping a Nasdaq de-listing at bay, THQ CEO Brian Farrell tells Gamasutra, though there's still a long way to go before the company's back on track.
July 2, 2012