Each year, Game Developer looks at the powerful lineup of new products and new releases of important tools, from game engines to books, and selects the top five products in each category. Front Line Awards finalists represent the most innovative, user-friendly, and useful products from behind the scenes of the world’s best video games. For this year, Autodesk 3ds Max won Game Developer Award for Best Art Tool [...]

Going offline: 18,000 words thesis to hand in tomorrow, so I better focus! # Autodesk Brings Historic Designs to Life in New Discovery Channel Series “Doing DaVinci” – http://tinyurl.com/cl8pnz # 2,000 words to go: “eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight” # Just posted: “Autodesk’s Support to the User Experience Design Community [...]

Is there a way to make a “word count” in an Adobe Illustrator file? # Initial Indicators of International Design Capabilities (Study to develop an International Design Scoreboard) http://tinyurl.com/cl45fk # Report finds single women enthusiastic about technology, single men enthusiastic about single women http://tinyurl.com/dzpvbb # Eric Zimmerman Discusses Future of Game Design (The distinction between [...]