Dev-corner: Flourish Conf

Open Source Conference

Next weekend you will have the chance to hear a talk by the Linux game development legend Ryan "Icculus" Gordon on open-source tools for game development:

Increasingly, the best tools for building games for any platform don't cost a dime. This talk will offer an overview of several of the best open source technologies available to game developers today. Topics will include audio, graphics, filesystems, and scripting. While this won't be a tutorial session, it will be fairly technical in nature, and will be useful for those looking to hack out their first game, or build the next Call of Duty sequel.

I hope they will record this for those who can not attend it personally. We will keep you updated on this next week I guess.

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Dev corner: FOSDEM about Games

Fosdem Game Dev

We already mentioned the FOSDEM 2012 role playing game development talk but recently I found links to more open source game development and game design "devrooms" here.

• Alistair Riddoch - The Dynamic Data Driven Worlds of WorldForge.mp3
• Arthur Huillet - Anatomy of a role playing game.avi
• Erik Ogenvik - Getting Started With Ogre3d For Game Development.mp3
• Jeremy Rosen - Balancing a game - the open source way.mp3
• Thomas Kinnen - Data-Driven and Component-Based Game-Entities.mp3

I also recommend "A New OSI for A New Decade" here, which starts with explaining how not to be annoying when advocating freedom.

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Open Source RPG Development Talk, #AltDevConf

Arthur Huillet of Freedroid talked about RPG development at FOSDEM 2012:

video: FOSDEM 2012 - Arthur Huillet - Anatomy of a role playing game

In two and a half hours, the online #AltDevConf starts. There seems to be no way to attend live unless you use Windows or OS X but the talks will be recorded and made available online later.

There will be 25 talks from the range of game programming, education, design and production.

AltDevConf is an online community-driven conference...

We aim provide free access to a comprehensive selection of game development topics taught by leading industry experts, and to create a space where bright and innovative voices can be heard.

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