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    Talking Pascal Gamer Magazine Issue 4 Needs Content: Want to write an article?

    Hey folks, it's getting to that time again where I'm looking at seeking out great new articles for a new issue of Pascal Gamer Magazine. It's been over a year since I've put one together and I think it's long overdue.

    So who is interested in writing and submitting an article to the magazine?

    All works are edited and published for the magazine and shared to the community in the next issue. People can read your articles via the free online downloadable PDF format, or they can get a physical copy of the magazine printed and shipped to their doors through the Lulu.com storefront.

    Also with the very exciting release of the first issue of Pascal Gamer Magazine Issue 1 app on iTunes, all future issues of Pascal Gamer will now appear in the App Store for iPad. Your articles can now be read by iPad users! Future issues will be sold for $0.99 to help cover the cost of running the website and cover costs of creating the magazine issues.

    All submitted articles are submitted to Pascal Gamer and considered a volunteer contribution to help support the greater Pascal game programming community. By giving back to the community you are a part of, you are helping it to thrive with the availability of information you are providing in your articles. Help this exciting new format that newcomers can download and read to help get them into making games with Pascal.

    I would love to see articles of all topics and skill levels in the magazine, however these are the areas that I would like to see for the next issue;


    • Beginning game programming 101 stuff with tools/setup/SDL. Write for easy consumption!
    • A few tutorial series would be great on: networking, graphics, audio, file formats, creating level editors, level design, brainstorming ideas for a new games, etc.
    • Graphics or other techniques that include code snippets like NeHe or something cool you'd see on pastebin. Small articles.
    • I've been tying forever to get a feature on a company like Big Fish about how they make games or how Pascal programmers could submit their games to them.
    • An article on how to submit your article for a specific distribution self-serve site or distribution company.
    • Highlights of very popular game engines/libraries. Please no prototypes or WIP.
    • History of developing a game. Would be great to include a development journal of a game that was made and released and include concept artwork, drawing board sketches/screen captures, and so on.
    • More ideas, can be discussed if you contact me with your interest in writing!


    Sections you can write for... (please consider what each section is about as you write your article for it)

    Project Highlights: Talk about a single game project or game engine or tool or library. Past Project Highlights articles have included Asphyre Extreme and Allegro.pas.

    Special Report: This can be a report on a special event (like Delphi Live! or Code Rage) or an article about your successes with commercial games like Frank van Gent wrote for us in issue 1. This can be about yourself, but doesn't have to be. You could even write about the history or a simple story about a game company that uses Pascal for example.

    Coder's Block: Code snippets used in a small tutorial about working with something specific, but features code. Can be big or small, but must include the code that others can use and learn from. We can include your code in a small archive and distribute it with the issue digitally from the website.


    If you are interested in writing an article for Pascal Gamer Magazine Issue 4, please send your interest (and articles) to contact@pascalgamer.com. We can discuss what you are interested in writing. Thanks!
    Jason McMillen
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    If you have any gaps that need filling with some words - just let me know, I can always polish and improve some upcoming publications meant for the articles section Of course, entirely new content is just as possible. And depending on the time frame - would you be interested in a quick setting up & hello world for android? I was planning something more of the sorts for the article section but since I'm taking the scenic route to get it all working nice it may take a small while to get right
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    Hmm an article on introduction to Android would be very nice for the next issue. A complete how to setup your deve environment would be great along with a basic demo (with source) would help a lot of people and get Android dev with Object Pascal going.

    An article on iOS development would be great too. I don't think that has been covered either. Considering that Pascal Gamer is now on the iPad, it would be a great promo as an alternative to using Objective-C in Xcode.
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    Lol. Sorry, but I can't help with iOS, fault of me not owning any apple products and having never developed for them either I can't elaborate on anything. If you want an iOS tutorial - I believe you'd have to talk to RelfOS or Andru for the specifics as they are (to my knowledge) the two most prominent iOS developers.

    As for an android tutorial, I'll see what can come up with in the next few days
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    I could write an iOS tutorial either for games using either OpenGL ES 2.0 or Apple's UIKit with Xcode and FreePascal 2.6rc1, if I find some time.
    You can also use my so far third-part series on the changes of FreePascal 2.6.0 (Part1, Part2 and Part3) if you want to.
    What is the guestimated timeframe for the release of the fourth issue?
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    Maybe if I get time, I could write a very simple tutorial on making a boulder dash like game using SDL or similar?
    As Stoney said, when do you want the articles by?

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    I could write an iOS tutorial either for games using either OpenGL ES 2.0 or Apple's UIKit with Xcode and FreePascal 2.6rc1, if I find some time.
    I have some material on the same theme, but I think Stoney is the authority on the whole chain (all the way to App Store, right?). Maybe I could follow-up on how to write iOS games "totally different"?

    What I could cover includes:

    - Installing FPC for iOS.
    - How to develop for iOS without Xcode.
    - Wrapping Cocoa for cross-platform development (games as well as standard GUIs).
    - Porting Mac applications/games to iOS.

    and maybe some more from there. Game development with FPC in the Mac would be possible too, of course. And I could even write about what it was like to write and publish a successful game engine for the Mac in the 90's, if anyone wants to read about it. And a bit of GPU computing on the top, maybe.

    It is a matter of finding time, of course, but also about what people really want to read. Very much the latter, really.

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