This second part of the first ImpressCMS IPF webcast gives a walkthrough of the blocks functionality, which was recently rewritten using IPF.
Next webcast in this session is on Monday 14 December 2009, at 21:00 (GMT)
It simply had to happen, with more than 6000 plugins on the official Extend site: the Wordpress main developers are considering a way to lead the users of the popular blogging platform to the best-in-class plugins.
The plugins would be developed by the community, but there will be a specific category indicating that they are considered best-in-class, and that the compatibility with a new release is guaranteed.
The risk with this type of presentation is that the users will limit themselves to those best-in-class plugins, and that many developers read more »
Box UK has a checklist available that should list the most important steps to take when launching a site. It was previously mentioned at Web Resources Depot. While I agree that you need a good checklist, I find the one presented here too oriented towards the layout and the design. Pre-launch marketing is not mentioned, and we know that’s a very important part of a succesfull initial launch.
Still, it can help to build your own strategy, by building on this document. The original can be found at the Box UK site.
Quite a while after the 1.0 was released, GarageGames’ flagship 3D engine Torque3D now has added a binary-only ‘Artist’ version at $250 to its lineup. And to continue the party, all Torque3D Artist version bought before the end of the year are at the astonishing low price of $100 – just like the original TGE at the very beginning. read more »
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Garagegames has just posted the first Alpha of Torque3D on the website for the current licensees of Torque3D Professional. This was a surprise for many, as the current communications coming out of Garagegames were all around the ongoing development of Torque2D, the successor to the Torque Game Builder.
Not much was known in advance about what was going to be in the Torque3D 1.1 release, and some rumours were that it would be a paid upgrade. I was happy to see that it wasn’t the case.
While Torque3D 1.0 was quite stable, quite some features scheduled to be added later.Some features, like the road editor, felt a bit light on features at the beginning. That has been remedied, and much quicker than any of us could have hoped. Let me give you some highlights of what’s coming: read more »
Good Old Games (GOG) maintenant offre In Cold Blood, un jeu classique d’aventure de Revolution Studios, avec quelques éléments d’action.
Chacun qui aime les jeux d’aventure connaît Revolution Studios. Leurs premières jeux, Lure of the Temptress et Beneath a Steel Sky, sont disponibles maintenant avec le logiciel libre ScummVM. Après ces deux, Revolution Studios a continué a créer des jeux d’aventure qui ont redéfinis le genre.
Parfois, cette redéfinition n’était pas tout à fait ce que le public voulait, comme c’était le cas avec In Cold Blood. Simplement l’idée d’éléments d’action faisait en sorte que les joueurs ‘die hard’ n’en voulaient pas, et le jeu n’a pas atteint le succès commercial attendu. Due à cela, le jeu était impossible à trouver jusque maintenant.
Il faut remercier GOG qu’ils continuent a nous proposer des jeux d’antan qui sont vraiment chouettes.
The guys at Larian really want all of us playing back the game that started it all : Divine Divinity. After the initial release on GOG, as I mentioned earlier, the game has how also been made available on Impulse.
Now is your time to choose: GOG delivers the games without DRM, and as such the price is at $9.99. Impulse requires you to download the impulse client (a bit like the steam client from Valve) and due to the fact that you have DRM involved, the price is read more »
At the current Unite 09 conference, a new release of the Unity3D was announced, bringing it up to version 2.6. According to the website, this new version brings along more than 100 enhancements in respect to the previous version.
The most notable thing, however, is the fact that the $200 Indie variant of the engine has disappeared. It has now been replaced with a free version and has been renamed to “Unity3d”. The new version includes read more »
Larian games has just released Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity on Gog.com. As a prelude to the worldwide release of the new installment in the Divinity universe, Larian is giving us the possibility to get re-acquainted with the fantastic worlds their stories play in. Divine Divinity (or ‘Sword of Lies’, as it was called initially) is now available on GOG.com for $5.99. The sequel, Beyond Divinity, is announced as ‘coming soon’ with a price of $9.99.
Divine Divinity was the game that put Larian Games on the map of the RPG-playing world. I had the luck of being able to go playtesting the first game just before the demo was released, and I was truly impressed by the insane amount of detail that went into the world.
The game sports a massive world with diverse locations to explore, an enthralling storyline offering weeks of gameplay, plus a great atmosphere, augmented by an outstanding musical score. If you like RPGs, you cannot miss this one.
I couldn’t agree more. The comparison with “Baldur’s Gate” was made quite often, and it still remains incredible that a small Belgian games company was able to produce such a polished and fun game.
As for the music, just come to Zwinneblomme in Knokke at the end of November, and you’ll be able to hear and see Kirill Pokrovsky himself. He’ll be enjoying himself entertaining the people in the piano bar at that party, so it won’t be games music. Nevertheless, it’ll be a blast, like every year.
