Teams for 3D Game Programming / Professionals /Future
Dr. Kris Stewart stewart*at*sdsu.edu

Lessons learned from Oscars this year by Rhythm & Hues Studios www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/2013/03/01/oscar-winning-vfx-company-behind-life-of-pi-goes-bankrupt/

Day 6 from Canadian Public Broadcast airs on KPBS and has interesting coverage of technology rich topics. This was broadcast 01march2013
"Hundreds of VFX workers gathered outside last Sunday's Oscar ceremony to protest the dire state of their industry. When Rhythm and Hues Supervisor Bill Westenhofer accepted the Oscar for his company's visual effects work on Life of Pi, he was played off the stage before he could tell audiences the company is bankrupt, and the industry is suffering. Scott Ross, founder of Digital Domain and former general manager of Industrial Light and Magic, explains why even Oscar winners can go broke in the VFX industry's race to the bottom.
Here's a sampling of examples showcasing the work of visual effects artists in some of Hollywood's biggest movies."

How to protect your IP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKcWAY96bEY useful thoughts on how do protect your ideas ... for the future corporerate world you may be in.

2D game file sizes (zip and rar do good compression) - Teams?

I have begun checking the 2D games due last Friday. You can upload more than once due to the issue about how large the zip file could be. As annouced Friday, the default limit for Bb is 50MB, but I spoke with the Bb Help Desk and they were going to raise this limit. Essential to have the Clean Build as specified in the Assignment page
Sharing Source code and assets MSDN Creators

Sharing with Another User
To share your project, including source code, with an XNA Game Studio user
1. In XNA Game Studio, open the project you want to share.
2. On the Build menu, click Clean Solution.
This removes any built and intermediate files, leaving only the source code and assets. If you do not have this menu item, see "Cleaning the Solution Before You Build" in Deploying an Xbox 360 Game.
3. Open Windows Explorer, and browse to the folder that contains the project you want to share.
4. Right-click on the project folder in Windows Explorer, click Send To, and then click Compressed (zipped) Folder.
The compressed file is ready to share.

I am accepting RAR files [I use 7-zip.org software] and it appears that ZIP and RAR do a good job on compressions.
As promised, I brought my external USB drive for those who were unsuccessful with their uploads.

Once the groups are finalized, I will distribute 8GB thumb drives to use to turn in your final group code, with documentation. You may find the following Microsoft Word template useful.

When you work in groups you will need to have a group concensus for file management. Rohan can host CVS

GDC is happening this week in San Francisco, look for highlights.

There is a useful GDC gropu on LinkedIn.