To create and support a community that recognizes no limits on its intellectual boundaries, whose primary mission is the advancement of knowledge and understanding through focused efforts of research and collaboration.
The community is comprised of members that are dedicated to the advancement of graphics technology who participate in elaborate conversations in an ambitious effort to solve the issues plaguing the graphics industry today.
Mods: please let me know if you want to keep these blog entries strictly graphics dev related and also... any idea why the images don't work?
It's got to be done I'm afraid! Firstly, a big thank you to the whole GraphicsDev community and especially those working with graphicsdev.net - this new website looks very nice! Now, on to a little bit about myself.
After taking awhile to mill about and mess with this and that (I attended BlizzCon, self-taught some electronics stuff, which I used to make a costume for BlizzCon, as well as learning Flash's ActionScript 3) I've decided that my next official project will be a 2D-Isometric Graphics engine. My learning goals for this project will be that of organization and "good" architecture.
Alright, about a month ago I successfully completed the game "Battlefield Chess" which was just a small project I dropped the world for to complete for a friend-of-a-friend who was willing to drop $1000 for its completion. Worth it. The game was written in C/C++ alongside SDL.
I am successfully futzin' about.[[Image:Current State Of Battlefield Chess (5/13/2007)|left|100x77px|Just the current state of my project for a friend. You see here all programmer art. The game is all multi-player at the moment, and as you can see I have chatting and most of the gameplay in. In the near future I intend to improve the art, and implemen]]
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The GraphicsDev Engine team is expanding!
We are currently looking to find several experienced programmers to fill key seats on our small but extremely talented team. Those who are selected will be helping to architect and develop our community sponsored next-gen engine.

When trying to post a forum topic using the "Post a new topic" in the forum's page, the forum dropdown box doesn't contain the forums list. (It does contain GDE's general discussion though).
However, when posting from "Create content" on the left toolbar, everything works as expected.

The last row of a mediawiki table seems to be displaying on top of the table, outside it and without formatting.