The contest page has been updated again, with a new entry from Gary Linscott as well as updated entries from Forrest Briggs and Philipp Spoeth. There's an interesting research project by Andrew Wu called Project Earthlight . The author does a much better job of explaining the project, so check out the page here , complete with pictures. Hasty submitted an update to the plugin code he uploaded a little while back. The new version is a bare-bones plugin system from which the plugin factory code was removed for simplicity.
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The document is 27 pages, available in both PDF and PostScript format. Net sent word that they've posted a transcript of the moderated IRC chat held last night in Seumas McNally's honor, for those who couldn't attend. Gamasutra posted an article entitled Designing Design Tools , which takes a look at designing good tools for creating game content. The coding contest page here on flipCode has been update with 2 new entries, from Philipp Spoeth and Forrest Briggs, as well as 2 updated entries from Tobias Johansson and Johan Glysing. It offers 5 key points to creating this sort of map, each with explanations.