DelphiGamer Magazine Issue 1

**technomage** · 02-08-2007, 06:03 PM

More news from DelphiGamer.com. The very FIRST issue of the new Quarterly Delphi Gamer Magazine is now available.

Issue 1 contains

Airblast Postmortem
Programming for the Xbox 360 with Chrome
Making games with S2DL

Check it out on http://www.delphigamer.com
or direct on http://mag.delphigamer.com

A big thank you to all those involved in putting this first issue together

Heads down for Issue 2

**cairnswm** · 02-08-2007, 06:11 PM

YAY!

**arthurprs** · 02-08-2007, 07:31 PM

10/10

**NecroDOME** · 02-08-2007, 08:18 PM

Nice!

**pstudio** · 02-08-2007, 09:04 PM

So this is what some of you guys have been talking about. Better give it a read then

Sounds good with a Delphi Gamer Magazine. It can only be good

**wodzu** · 03-08-2007, 08:08 AM

Thanks guys for that Issue

**VilleK** · 03-08-2007, 08:42 AM

Yes this looks very good

You should make sure it gets mentioned in one of the DelphiFeeds blogs so it can reach many Delphi users.

**jdarling** · 03-08-2007, 11:51 AM

Not too bad, though I would suggest that you find yourself a good copywriter and use them. I noticed quite a few glaring English mistakes as I read through the issue.

On the side of content, one of the best magazines (IMHO) that the Delphi/Pascal world lost was Delphi Mag. With authors such as Julian Bucknall and many other giving articles on very specific topics such as sorting a doubly linked list and what options worked best when the magazine was the best read I could find while it was still in existance.

I think it would be interesting to find another mag that put forth information on specific general topics that can be used in any library. These should be from the very basics (something about object management and garbage collection) all the way up to high level topics (vertex normalization between rendering contexts and the use of display lists to minimize render times, threading and the new processors that are becoming common).

Just my two cents for what its worth.

**cairnswm** · 03-08-2007, 05:00 PM

Hey Jeremy - sounds liek you have volunteered for something.

I think the question is do we* want the magazine to be a generic Delphi/Pascal coding magazien or to be directly focussed on Game Development.

* We = us, the members of the community - the people who use and/or contribute to the magazine.

**Robert Kosek** · 03-08-2007, 05:03 PM

Cairnswm, I don't see the problem with Jeremy's suggestion. There is a whole lot more to games than just the end result, the library you used, or even promotion of pascal games. Going into an explanation of a singly linked list, double linked list, or a hashed list has implications even in games. Speed is important in a game.