Have any communities taken up the charge since Flipcode died? It was an amazing resource of great value. I haven't seen anything else quite like it.
There is Gamasutra. But I find it too heavily focussed on the industry and not enough on the practice. They don't offer enough technical, practical, working material. It's primarily a discussion of ideas and theories.
I'd love to see something like Flipcode alive on the web today, in this climate of do-it-yourself games as apps. The market is open like never before to the insurgent developer, no longer in the exclusive purview of mega-companies.
A friend of mine writes http://www.hobbygamedev.com - Interesting articles about game development - some on a technical "this code accomplishes this task" level, and some on a more theoretical "what is a game" level
flipcode was the first site I ran into that really had good programming information. For some reason, undoubtably silly, I never 100% grooved with gamedev/gamasutra.
Great resources, I remember Flipcode fondly (if fuzzily) from 3D game engine dabbling in the past.
I think it would be really interesting to see a reappraisal of these articles from a '10 years later' perspective, to see how the state of the art has (or hasn't) progressed.
Augh! Nice work EGreg, I hadn't run across this before. I'm reading them and I'm so sad there aren't more. Just finished Landscape I and I've been left wanting more.
Well, right now I'm working hard on a social network that I hope will change the world. It's a distributed social network with total control over your data and privacy. And it also helps you make plans for dinner :)
There is Gamasutra. But I find it too heavily focussed on the industry and not enough on the practice. They don't offer enough technical, practical, working material. It's primarily a discussion of ideas and theories.
I'd love to see something like Flipcode alive on the web today, in this climate of do-it-yourself games as apps. The market is open like never before to the insurgent developer, no longer in the exclusive purview of mega-companies.