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EDITOR
Claudio “Chippit” de Sa
DEPUTY EDITOR
James “Nighttimehornets” Etherington-Smith
DESIGNER
Quinton “Q-Man” Bronkhorst
CONTRIBUTORS
Rodain “Nandrew” JoubertSimon “Tr00jg” de la RouviereRicky “Insomniac” AbellWilliam “Cairnswm” CairnsDanny “Dislekcia” Day Andre “Fengol” OdendaalLuke “Coolhand” LamotheRishal “UntouchableOne” HurbansGareth “Gazza_N” Wilcock Sven “FuzzYspo0N” BergstromKyle “SkinkLizzard” van DuffelenChris “LionsInnards” DudleyHerman Tulleken
WEBSITE ADMIN
Robbie “Squid” Fraser
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All images used in the mag are copyright and belong to their respective owners.I’ve always wanted to write my very own story;this seems like as good a place as any to start.Okay, so once upon a time there lived a prettylittle girl. Her name was Sarah.
It’s
been quite a juggling act this month; thepost-holiday slump, numerous unforeseen obli-gations of some of our staff resulting in a bit of aslanted development cycle, plus the usual post-Game.Dev competition rush have all contributedto the veritably mad dash needed to get the mag-azine done on time. My own DreamBuildPlay en-try currently taunts me from my taskbar as I writethis, but it is actually down to a heroic effort fromour designer that everything was ready to releaseat all – he really does deserve that candy.Perhaps the major cause of our troubles thismonth was the push to get some strong contentin for this issue. We sport a nice shiny review of
Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 1 – Onthe Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
(and I’llbe damned if I type out that whole name again)headlining our reviews this month, with a smat-
tering of other GarageGames-, and more speci
-cally,
Torque
Engine-related content scatteredthroughout our virtual pages.We also sat down with Irrgheist, the creators of H-Craft Championship, to hear their thoughts withparticular focus on H-Craft Championship, their
rst game release and a title we’ve mentioned
before. Additionally, we’re starting off an excel-lent new multi-part tutorial with an introductionin the use of Google’s web application engine forgame creation. Keep a look out for the continua-tion of that one next month, since it promises tobe an enlightening piece indeed. You may also have noticed that the design andtutorial sections have vanished. In an effort toeliminate some ambiguity and the occasionaloverlap between the sections, we’ve decided tomerge the offending sections into a new, larger,magazine division from this issue onwards. Thenew section – named Development – will con-tain all content relating to game development inany way, whether it is to share insight, tools orguides.Finally, I’m proud to announce that Game.Devwill have a fairly strong presence at
Dream-BuildPlay
this year, with at least two local teamscurrently at the XNA-shaped grindstone churningout their entries. You can look forward to a spe-cial piece nearer to the close of the competitiondetailing each team’s personal experiences andthoughts. And that’s about all I have to say this month. Weput a lot of effort into this is-sue, so if you’re still here: getreading, already!~ Claudio, Editor