Issue 1 Of Indie Games Developer Magazine Out Now - It's Free!

For all you aspiring game developer/designers, there's a new game dev mag in town... well at least on the internet. Indie Games Developer Magazine is now available, and it's free! You can download it or view it online(it's on Flash 10). The mag is supported by the indie game development community and has a bunch of handy tips which you'd definitely want to check out. It's great that indies now have a nice resource in the form of a developer magazine.

CryEngine 3 SDK Now Available For Free

For non commercial use that is. Crytek has done the wise thing and released the SDK(that's Software Development Kit) for CryEngine 3(the engine that powers Crysis 2) for free. Certainly Epic and Valve has seen the benefit of releasing free dev tools which modders can use to make games which in turn can become successful games on their own. Fancy yourself a game designer? You can get a hold of the CryEngine 3 SDK here. Currently it is not available just yet... but very soon.

Gabe Newell Says No To Source Engine 2 - More Prudent To Iterate On Source

Here I was, speculating that Half Life: Episode 3 might actually be made into Half Life 3 using a new Source engine. It turns out that the second half of my speculation might not turn out to be true. Gabe Newell, speaking to Develop, said that it is more prudent to continually iterate on the Source engine than to build a completely brand new engine from scratch. “There are lot of advantages on iterating on a mature and stable and shipped codebase, as opposed to starting over again” he said. He added “I think, when you see a game like DOTA 2, you’ll see how developers can get a lot more out of Source than most companies can get from a scratch-built engine.” He explained that the way Source is set up, they could iterate by adding new modules and even update the rendering technology of the engine. It is very likely Valve will be sticking with Source for a long time to come. You can read the excerpt to the full length feature in Develop Magazine on their online site here

Source: VG247, Develop

Erik Wolpaw Talks Portal 2

Portal 2 writer, Erik Wolpaw gave this lecture for the New York University’s Game Center series of talks. It’s as good as being there, you can watch him in the video below, talking about the development of the game and some ideas that didn’t quite make it. It’s an hour plus video that’s worth watching. Video below…

Will Wright Talks On Video Games & Learning

Will Wright has always been a big proponent for gaming and play as educational tools. In this talk he gave for the Summit on Science, Technology and education, he describes how the medium has evolved over time and the tremendous possibilities to learn from gaming. It’s a 20 minute talk and Will is as usual very entertaining and funny. Watch it below…

So You Want To Be A Game Developer? Tools of The Trade

No cash to splurge on expensive development licenses? Well things are a lot different nowadays than it used to be. The tools for making games are becoming much easier to use and much cheaper. Heck, you can find a few offering free versions that aren't completely gimped. There's no better time to get started in game development than now. Lets look at the tools that you could pick up and useful sites that you might want to bookmark...