New release of ClanLib 2.2.0 SDK for Windows and Linux

News on development and creation of games popping up every day.

Today we talk about ClanLib.

First, it is a cross platform toolkit library.

Second, library is Open Source and free for commercial use.

We can see several examples.

Use advantage of SSE2 code and multicore CPU's for fast rendering.

See some features :

-Very liberal BSD style license

-Supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

-OpenGL 3, OpenGL 1 and SSE Software Rendering

-High-performant shader based render architecture

-Full GUI framework customizable using CSS

-GUI windows rendered to textures or native windows

-High level 2D graphics with fonts, sprites, animations, collisions

-Network library with sockets, web, irc and game interfaces

-Database supporting SQLite

-Sound supporting wav, tracker formats and ogg-vorbis

-Basic cross platform runtime (threading, file I/O, XML/DOM, etc.)

-Template based signal library (type-safe callbacks)

-Integrated resource management

Tags: Game SDK Posted: 2010-07-27 16:43:45

Blender Magazine - ISSUE 28: Blender 2.5

As you know the magazine Blender Magazine is a magazine known to those who use Blender 3D software.

The title of this magazine is "Blender 2.5. In this issue we find some interesting articles related to version 2.5.

However I expect some to be more specific. I expected to find some more specific tutorials.

New version 2.5 has new tools and hardware required. For this reason I wanted to see something more complex.

The magazine comes with sample files. However it seems that the magazine is a success.

FEATURED CONTENTS :

Articles/Tutorials on Creating 3D contents using Blender 2.5

I love my Bubble

Up to Speed

Blender 2.49 Scripting (Book Review)

High resolution rendering @ speed of the light

and more ...

The issue and files can be found here.

Tags: Blender 3D Posted: 2010-07-18 10:29:07

Kindle Wireless Reading Device - just only $189.00

The price of this device fell to $ 189.00.

Unfortunately the version that I prefer the device costs $ 489.

This device - the Kindle Wireless Reading Device DX (9.7 "Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) is more attractive to me but too expensive.

Devices are becoming smaller. Technologies have already been announced in the market.

What I can understand why not they try to reduce sales price and that will increase sales.

Expect to see a price not exceeding $ 200 for "Kindle Wireless Reading Device DX 9.7''at this time.

This is a good price right now for such a device.

But this is only an opinion and unfortunately I do not work on Marketing department.

Tags: news,ebook, kindle,low price Posted: 2010-06-23 11:42:14

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on mobile platform

Adobe has decided to launch the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on mobile platform. This was specially redesigned to delivering new performance and mobile specific features.Adobe expects that Flash Player 10.1 will increase the number of Flash designers and developers team up to three million.

Tags: Adobe mobile device Posted: 2010-06-23 10:50:36

New article about linux .

Tags: linux Posted: 2010-05-25 17:59:50

The first electronic device is on the scale of individual atoms.

Tags: news, devices Posted: 2010-05-25 08:42:59

Blenderart Mag Issue #27 now available

Issue 27: Shadow ShowdownUp

"In this issue we explore lighting and creation of shadows with a nice variety of tutorials and articles on various lighting tools and techniques."

 * Articles/Tutorials on Fun with Shadows
 * I finally get it! Ambient Occlusion
 * Mesh Lights
 * Studio Pack Shot
 * Robbie the Robot
 * Using textured light to spice up a scene
 * Lighting the Vault
 * Lighting Troubleshooting Tips

Tags: Blender,3D Posted: 2010-05-18 12:02:37

What is New in Python 2.7

Now we have news features in Python 2.7.

The final release of 2.7 is currently scheduled for July 2010.

Python 2.7 is planned to be the last of the 2.x releases.

here are some useful additions to the standard library.

The new release add many other improvements, such as a greatly enhanced unittest module,

the argparse module for parsing command-line options, convenient ordered-dictionary and

Counter classes in the collections module.

Tags: Python Posted: 2010-05-15 14:10:10

What is the future of 3D graphics?

Two articles I read on the Internet have attracted attention.

The first is the article announcing the new "PyroGine game engine".

The second article announces something about some rumors about Nintendo's screen.

Watching with interest the 3D graphics development and promotion, I saw daily news in this area.

I think it should be noted that this area will be successful.

Young programmers are attracted from an early stage of learning 3D graphics programming.

Languages like C + +, Python is an example of this.

They already have enough libraries and modules designed for this purpose.

Unfortunately many companies do not offer the necessary support and documentation for the development of high quality 3D software.

Many operating systems do not benefit from the latest 3D features,see: NVIDIA PhysX technology.

A good example of this is "Cityscape's.

In the article I read: "Cityscape is a very narrowly-focused tool that solves a specific problem.

This says a lot about how 3D software is developed.

Tags: 3D Posted: 2010-04-13 12:38:53

Google maps - bikers

A few days ago I wrote about a feature of Google Maps.

Today i saw the new one - google maps for bikes.

We can see friendly routes, find trails, and sometime avoid snarling traffic.

You can access by choosing "Bicycle" and set the directions.

Google maps shows you how you reach from point A to point B.

This is cool but not all countrys have this feature.

See image bellow with this feature:

Tags: google Posted: 2010-03-11 09:37:04

Google Maps - The 3D world.

Google maps show world in 3D. I saw this feature in other sites like :

• http://www.360cities.net/area/paris-france
• http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen/fullscreen32.html

But , google maps is huge and i think is a great feature . In the future, I thinking i will see more stuff. The world will be a "Google Second Life"

You can search for similar sites with www.panogoogle.com

Tags: 3D Posted: 2010-02-22 17:24:51

Paris Game AI Conference

Tags: game,conference Posted: 2010-02-09 15:50:53

Blenderart Mag Issue #25 now available

Welcome to Issue #25, “Winter Wonderland.”

• Tutorial – Christmas Ball
• Tutorial – Making Santa
• Making of – Cyclone
• Making of – Winter Scene
• Johny Blender Training DVD
• Interview: Jonathan Williamson
• Book Review: Incredible Machines
• And Lot More…

Tags: Blender,3D Posted: 2010-01-09 12:40:42

The new PYGTK 2.17 release.

Tags: Python Posted: 2010-01-02 15:54:05

Python - new book for kids.

Tags: python,books Posted: 2009-12-29 14:45:48

BlenderArt Mag Issue-24 is now-available

• Tutorial-A quick little Whale
• Tutorial-Realistic Water Environment
• Making of-Kaldewei
• Making of-Sea Anemone
• Swarm-An open distributed render farm
• Now where's the Under Water Lightingbutton?

Tags: Blender,3D Posted: 2009-11-09 18:31:19

What is OOMouse?

Is the first multi-button application mouse designed for a wide variety of software applications. The OOMouse supports Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems.

The features of the OOMouse include:

• 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality
• Three different button modes: Key, Keypress, and Macro
• Analog Xbox 360-style joystick with optional 4, 8, and 16-key command modes
• Clickable scroll wheel
• 512k of flash memory
• 63 on-mouse application profiles with hardware, software, and autoswitching capability
• 1024-character macro support.
• Open source support software for creating, managing, and customizing application profiles
• Import and export of custom profiles in XML format
• Optional audio notification of profile switching with customizable wave files
• PDF export of profile button assignments
• Adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI
• 20 default profiles for popular games and applications, including OpenOffice.org 3.1, Adobe Photoshop, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, and the Call of Duty series.

More on: openofficemouse.com

Tags: OpenOffice Posted: 2009-11-09 08:57:35

Turtle and Python - friends of children

The new Python Turtle from pythonturtle.com is a little tool for learning Python.

PythonTurtle strives to provide the lowest-threshold way to learn Python. Students command an interactive Python shell (similar to the IDLE development environment) and use Python functions to move a turtle displayed on the screen. An illustrated help screen introduces the student to the basics of Python programming while demonstrating how to move the turtle

I think is for childen who can control this little turtle. Next image show the IDE and some commands.

Tags: python Posted: 2009-08-05 17:31:40

New Pygame

The pygame has a new release .

What's new (heaps of things since 1.8.1):

Summary of changes:
 - many, many fixes and improvements .  The largest amount of changes has gone into this release than any other pygame release.
 - bug fixes for backwards compatibility issues introduced in pygame 1.8.x series. old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work again.
 - experimental camera webcam module (still in development).
 - experimental  midi  module based on portmidi and pyportmidi (99% complete).
 - experimental gfxdraw module based on SDL_gfx (including AA circles,  textured polygons  and other goodness).
 - python3, and  python3.1  support mostly completed.  Some modules still remain to be completed - but mostly it's working.
 - nokia mobile  phone s60 support.
 - improved OSX support  (dropped pyobjc dependency, improved installer, sysfont now works on OSX).
 - pygame.examples  +  pygame.tests  included with pygame.  This makes testing easier, and also makes learning pygame more fun and easy.
 - cleanup of examples, and addition of new examples.
 - new tools to aid in development of pygame itself, better compilation documentation.
 - py2app, and py2exe support improved.

Download files from: www.pygame.org/download.shtml

Tags: pygame Posted: 2009-08-01 16:03:41

Blenderart Mag Issue #22 now available

Welcome to Issue #22, "Things That Go Bump in the Night"

Halloween is traditionally the time for spooky, scary fun, but "Things that go bump in the Night" happen all year round. So let's have some fun with and explore things that give us those delightful creepy shivers.So grab your copy today.

Also be sure to check out our gallery of wonderful images submitted by very talented members of our community.

Table of Contents:

• Tutorial : Tracks Creator
• Tutorial : Fun with Texture Nodes
• Tutorial : Water Tank
• Making : Arkor
• Making : Cute Clown
• Making : Cave Troll
• KnowHow : Great Educational Resource

And lot more ...

Tags: 3D,Blender Posted: 2009-07-07 09:58:13

Usefull digital oscilloscope for Linux with your soundcard!

I saw this software and i try on Fedora 9. I saw this software and I decided to try. must install the GTK library. Follow the commands to create the binary file: "./configure" and "make". The program starts with "./xoscope". Need to attach the microphone to a first test. Ready to start it.

Tags: linux Posted: 2009-05-27 00:05:46

Rosetta Stone Hosts 1st Annual Summer Game Jam!

"We're looking for people who like to code, compete and most importantly, win." say Rosetta Stone Team. The actual competition will be between July 17-19. Teams must have at least one programmer with game development programming experience using either Flash, XNA, OpenGL, PyGame, etc. First Prize will win a Macbook Pro with 30 inch cinema display, 3 levels of Rosetta Stone. Second prize will earn $500 and 3 levels of Rosetta Stone Software.

Tags: game Posted: 2009-05-26 10:22:22