The best sellers of this week include:

• Building a Flexible Game Engine: Abstraction, Indirection, and Orthogonality


• Will Wright's What's Next in Design


• Burn Baby, Burn: Game Developers Rant


• A New Vision for Interactive Stories


• Granular Synthesis in Next-Generation Games


• Spore: Preproduction Through Prototyping


• Advanced Prototyping


• The Next Generation Animation Panel


• God of War: How the Left and Right Brain Learned to Love One Another


• An Overview of Xbox 360 Audio


• The Game Design Challenge: The Nobel Peace Prize


• Three States and a Plan: The AI of F.E.A.R.


• A Discussion on Story and Music and the Business That Brings Them Together


• ...And Make It Snappy! Crafting Concise, Effective Dialogue for your Game


• Advanced Light and Shadow Culling Methods

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Best Sellers for the Week of April 19, 2006 include:

• Building a Flexible Game Engine: Abstraction, Indirection, and Orthogonality


• Will Wright's What's Next in Design


• Burn Baby, Burn: Game Developers Rant


• The Next Generation Animation Panel


• The Life Cycle of a Successful Small Game Development Studio


• ...And Make It Snappy! Crafting Concise, Effective Dialogue for your Game


• A New Vision for Interactive Stories


• Agile Methodology in Game Development: Year 3


• Modeling Next-Gen Characters: From Concept to Game


• 3ds Max - Complex Data Mapping Production Techniques


• A Discussion on Story and Music and the Business That Brings Them Together


• How to Raise Venture Capital to Build a Game Company

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The complete set of recordings of lectures and panels from GDC 2006 has been added to the GDCRadio download library. Lectures & panels were recorded at the main GDC conference as well as GDC Mobile and Serious Games Summmit GDC. To see the complete list of sessions click here.

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Best Sellers for the Week of April 11, 2006 include:

• Building a Flexible Game Engine: Abstraction, Indirection, and Orthogonality
• Experimental Gameplay Sessions
• Burn Baby, Burn: Game Developers Rant
• How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days
• The Life Cycle of a Successful Small Game Development Studio
• A New Vision for Interactive Stories
• Agile Methodology in Game Development: Year 3
• Field Recording For Games
• The Game Design Challenge: The Nobel Peace Prize
• Valve's Design Process for Creating Half-Life 2
• We Learned the Hard Way So You Don't Have To: How to Outsource Successfully
• Emerging Business Trends in Casual Games
• The Next Generation Animation Panel
• God of War: Sound and Music Production
• Sim, Render, Repeat – An Analysis of Game Loop Architectures
• An Overview of Xbox 360 Audio
• What Mobile Publishers Are Looking For In Developers
• Developer-Publisher Relationship Dynamics: From Creating to Distributing Mobile Content
• Broadening Our Idea of What Games Can Be

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