Anyway, finally found time to go through this issue. I was surprisingly enjoyable to read. Not that I expected it to be boring, but some articles/tutorials turned out to be much more from what I expected reading their titles.
Joe King's article on game design is yet another gem on this topic. Just when I thought nothing new can be said on this subject without dealing with some specific game design problem, another author pops-up and offers a fresh new inspiring perspective.
RubNL's tutorials were a rather nice surprise, mainly in the style they were written in, the style I endorse.
I must say I didn't get Game Design Novice?s article. Is that a joke or what? I?m puzzled.
Another fine selection of comics in this issue. Diffeecult was much cleverer this time, and provides the best comic in the issue. Love the analogy.
Anyway, didn?t have time to check the rest of the work properly, but it is ?interesting? to see Pritchard?s tutorials in QBE.
Expect another boring letter for the next issue.
Statistics: Posted by Lachie Dazdarian — Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:20 am
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I think it's a great issue, as they always are. I'm going to try and work up a tutorial of some kind and join in the fun.
- Dav
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Considering how many submissions we get, and also the number of people who resubmit the same article with minor changes, it's inevitable that we will occasionally make a mistake. I apologize. If you want to quit submitting news over this, so be it.
Please remember that QB Express is just a hobby I do in my spare time, and every once in a while, I mess up.
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I was mainly annoyed with YAGL as it was never completed, and I?m not aware of a full game or a graphics demo done in it. The other thing that annoyed me is the fact it relies on bunch of other third-party libraries (including OpenGL), which doesn?t seem very practical nor something to really respect from programming perspective. Regarding OpenGL, it makes the library dependant on hardware acceleration, while FBGfx lib has the ability to fallback on various drivers, and you can freely use OpenGL with it or not. It?s up to you.
Statistics: Posted by Lachie Dazdarian — Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:32 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Nodtveidt — Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:06 pm
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The email containing this file was sent to you (qbexpress@gmail.com) on Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:27:47 -0700 (PDT) as a zig file. This is rather annoying, and I hate myself for commenting this instead of the magazine content.
It probably took me more than an hour to compile that ciw1973 compo results news which was so NEEDED to be included in these news briefs. Also, I posted some news about notthecheatr's new font lib, not to mention tons of nitpicks on notthecheatr's news and the ones I previously wrote. Like, I added many more links.
And I don't want to think about some of the Qlympics results. ZeroG?!? YAGL?!? Anyone actually coded something is this "ultra fast" lib that died before it took of the ground?
Yes, that's the way for me to become popular.
Statistics: Posted by Lachie Dazdarian — Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:38 pm
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"Articles" are stories about the community, editorials or rants, or commentary / discussion about specific programs (like a review of a game, or a preview of an upcoming release). Articles don't describe how to create your own programs, though they may talk about programming theory that you could incorporate into your programs.
"Tutorials" are articles about the nuts and bolts of programming, or specific programming techniques, and usually include source code.
Statistics: Posted by Pete — Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:53 am
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Statistics: Posted by Codemss — Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:54 pm
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The <a href="http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/exp ... >September issue</a> of QB Express is now available!<br><br>This issue features NINE tutorials, FIVE articles and the results of this year's Qlympics.<br><br>Read Lachie Dazdarian's review of <i>Lodestar</i>, RubyNL's tutorial on "Time Based Motion and Collision Detection", learn about Wireframes from Mentat, or discover what makes a game great, thanks to Joe King. We've also got comics, the Gallery and all the other QB Express mainstays you look forward to every month.<br><br>There's all this, and a whole lot more in <a href="http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/exp ... x.html">QB Express #24</a>!</p>
Statistics: Posted by Pete — Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:39 am
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