2023-05-14 22:10
First and foremost - to everyone who bought a copy of my book legally - thank you so much. I really, genuinely appreciate it. Writing a book was a tremendously difficult task.&nb&hell…Read More
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A Game-Guru specific blog for indy gamedevs. It features a weekly report on the state of the Game-Guru world as well as tutorials, lightweight AAA game analysis, and custom content!
2022-01-31 17:49
As many of you are aware, I wrote a book right before this whole COVID ridiculousness on GameGuru. It's been a long time. Now we have GameGuru Max on the horizon and I'm lu… Read More
2020-08-11 16:50
Current Status I've received a few inquiries from interested parties who wanted to make sure I was still alive after my abrupt departure from the Game-Guru community back in March. &nbs&hell…Read More
2020-02-12 20:01
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2020-02-03 16:25
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2020-01-14 19:35
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2020-01-06 19:47
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-11-06 20:22
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-10-30 18:54
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-10-22 19:27
GameGuru NewsSome of the secret squirrel sleuths found this gem buried in GitHub - make of it what you will:https://github.com/TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo/pull/631/commits/c570fedd8cd8ccac8… Read More
2019-10-16 14:30
My apologies for the late updates. It's been an absolute nightmare dealing with some of my recent work changes so this has unfortunately dropped massively in priority.GameGuru NewsThe… Read More
2019-09-23 18:08
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-09-16 18:37
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-09-09 17:49
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-09-04 19:05
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-08-21 19:01
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not ref… Read More
2019-08-12 18:05
This article represents solely the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions or views of r The Game Creators, it's employees, or subordinates. It likewise does not reflec… Read More
2019-08-05 17:46
Sorry for missing last week guys. Life got in the way. Life is trying to get in the way this week as well, but I'm going to quickly blast this report out before another dumpster fire b… Read More
2019-07-22 20:38
GameGuru NewsWell.. I'm not even sure how to broach this one but apparently we were potentially going to get Preben for a bit to work on dynamic shadows but instead that offer's been rescind… Read More
2019-07-15 17:22
This week we finally received the public launch of the updated engine. GameGuru News Lots of mini-updates to the big update done. Looks like Lee is continuing his active in… Read More
2019-07-08 17:25
Well, I'm back, finally. My life is still absolute chaos from the baby's arrival but I've been able to shore up enough time to put together a GameGuru report for everyone. Deepest apol… Read More
2019-06-03 17:20
This will likely be my last update for 2-3 weeks. This is due to the imminent delivery of my third child. GameGuru News This week we had an info-drop on github with an update from… Read More
2019-05-29 15:12
A word of warning before we begin - my wife is due to deliver our 3rd any day now. If and when I go in to the hospital for our newest (a girl) to arrive, there's very likely to be a la… Read More
2019-05-21 14:44
GameGuru NewsThere's lots of ripples in the water, but nothing breaking the surface yet. So far, a fairly tame week for news. Nothing on github. Nothing on steam. Not… Read More
2019-05-13 17:16
GameGuru News A wild Lee Bamber appeared in the forums and made a few quotes:"Looks like the cat escaped the bag, but yes, I have been putting much time and coding into a non-Steam multipla… Read More
2019-05-06 17:58
GameGuru NewsThis week in GameGuru we have several 'info drops' of interest. Firstly, if you missed it, on youtube was a recent video by Lee with respect to using GG Loader with GameGu… Read More
2019-04-29 17:35
Apologies are in order for being out last week. My day job has us do an out-of-town Biannual disaster recovery event which requires me to travel and work throughout the week.That said there'… Read More
2019-04-16 15:26
GameGuru News Nothing currently. I've put out feelers with Deb and the team @ TGC for more details but so far there's nothing to report. Github shows no forward momentum at… Read More
2019-04-08 19:13
GameGuru NewsThe attic pack is on sale.Also, apparently (from the monthly newsletter):"In the background, we have also received a new version of the GLTF importer code from a freelancer wh… Read More
2019-04-01 20:08
Happy April Fool's Day! In this version of the GameGuruReport, I'll be covering the new Cry-Real-Ity engine, a fusion of the top three engines that is sure to deliver the best performa… Read More
2019-03-25 20:12
GameGuru NewsI'm going to change the title of this from 'official' GameGuru news to GameGuru news. This is for several reasons. One, I am not an official news source of GameGuru… Read More
2019-03-18 16:20
Official GameGuru News:This week there was an impromptu free weekend for GameGuru. Unfortunately by the time you read this it'll have been closed. This infusion of fresh blood will lik… Read More
2019-03-11 18:33
Official GameGuru NewsNothing big at the moment, just a new PP version for testing from the upstream beta build. This does however mean that we can expect a live version very shortly… Read More
2019-03-04 18:48
This week's update will be exceptionally short. I simply can't invest the time with this being crunch week. My book is going to the publisher on Weds/Thurs.Official GameGuru News… Read More
2019-02-25 20:56
Official GameGuru NewsThis week we have some information from the man himself - apparently Lee is hard at work at working on a new beta version that will be dropping shortly for beta testers… Read More
2019-02-18 16:53
Official GameGuru NewsAside from the occasional random PBR update, there really hasn't been much from TheGameCreators in terms of what's going on with GameGuru and this has caused some level… Read More
2019-02-13 15:15
Life obligations have caught up to me. I have too many things juggling right now and until I get some cleared it's too difficult to set aside the extra 3-5 hours necessary to put toget… Read More
2019-02-04 20:10
Official GameGuru News:Well, another pack got more of a PBR DLC treatment: https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-construction-site-dlc-updated-4Lee made a minor series of patche… Read More
2019-01-28 17:20
https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-antiques-in-attic-dlc-updated https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220354?page=2 - lee Official GameGuru News:Another pack (this time… Read More
2019-01-21 20:39
Apologies for the short weekly review here, I am in crunch mode for the book for the next few weeks.Official GameGuru News:https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-mega-pack-2-dlc-updat… Read More
2019-01-15 14:33
This week's update will be a bit shorter than usual as I am in crunch mode for my book (which goes to the publisher in Feb).So just a quick pass on the GameGuru stuff from this last week:Off… Read More
2019-01-07 20:30
Happy New Year, folks! With a new year undoubtedly will come new changes!Official GameGuru NewsThis week we have the official update of PBR assets to the Fantasy Pack - https://www.the… Read More
2018-12-31 18:48
Well I hope you all enjoyed your Holidays. Here in Pennsylvania my family had a great Christmas together. It was nice to see family I'd not seen in a while.With that, I skipped last we… Read More
2018-12-17 15:48
This week has a lot of updates to cover. Let's get started! First a quick reminder that I am not an employee of TheGameCreators (TGC) and as such this opinion piece does not reflect th… Read More
2018-12-10 19:04
Welcome back to another busy week in the GameGuru community. Let's dive right in!Official GameGuru NewsThis week saw another model kit update - specifically PBR getting added to some o… Read More
2018-12-03 20:41
Official GameGuru News This week a new DLC pack was added, the 'abandoned apartment' which looks fairly well put together. This is about the time of year when Lee & Company te… Read More
2018-11-26 16:53
This is part 5 of a long running series on lighting techniques in GameGuru. It's advised you read the previous four if you haven't already so you have some fundamental understanding on… Read More
2018-11-26 16:45
Well, the American holiday of Thanksgiving has come and gone. I do love it, not just for the food but the lessons it brings us. If you're ever interested, take a look at the note… Read More
2018-11-19 18:25
As you can see, I'll now be cross posted not only at gamedev.net and blogarama but also here on the GameGuru site itself, which is pretty awesome!So for those of you who are not aware, I've… Read More
2018-11-12 16:24
This week's update may actually make it to the Game-Guru news page, woohoo!We'll see. I've been in communication with TGC's marketing person and it's moving forward, albeit a bit slowl… Read More
2018-11-05 18:42
Official Game-Guru NewsWhile there's not a lot of information floating out there from an official standpoint, it appears that TGC worked with the user 'Wizard of Id' to make a cold war pack… Read More
2018-10-29 16:02
What a crazy week. Life at home has been absolutely nuts and this week we've got a fairly jam-packed series of updates that I need to unpack here. So I'm going to blitz through… Read More
2018-10-22 17:06
So I'm back from my business trip and there's a lot of catching up to do. Let's get started! Official Game-Guru News: Every once in a while TheGameCreators, makers of Game-Guru, releas… Read More
2018-10-15 19:26
This week's update was pre-staged because of some real life work obligations. Apologies for any content which was missed in the lag time between staging and deployment here.Official Game Gur… Read More
2018-10-08 15:54
Official Game-Guru News:There is a new survey available which offers users the chance of getting a free DLC pack as incentive for completing it so give them your thoughts! https://www.thegam… Read More
2018-10-01 15:45
I notice (@LeeBamber) that I'm still not showing on the news section. Not that it's any skin off my back. I do this for fun, but I wouldn't mind a followup so I'm not twisting in… Read More
2018-09-26 15:10
So recently I’ve found myself back in Game-Guru for more significant lengths of time than I’ve had in a while. Up to this point I’ve mostly been relegated to occasio… Read More
2018-09-24 14:42
Syndication Notice: I'm adding this just to alleviate some confusion for a few out there. This blog is hosted at http://gamegurureport.blogspot.com - it is syndicated through several d… Read More
2018-09-17 16:22
So wow, what a busy week! I have a lot of interesting and exciting things to bring up for you all.First of all, apparently I'm to be featured on the Game-Guru site. I've been wri… Read More
2018-09-10 15:12
This week, I've really been through quite a lot of components to help put this weeks report together.Thankfully there's a surplus of really great stuff that I can't wait to show you.Official… Read More
2018-09-04 15:45
Welcome back after a nice long month hiatus from Game-Guru Reporting. Unfortunately life's call was pretty strong (and remains so) but at the same time I do need to make sure this repo… Read More
2018-08-27 17:03
I've heard from a few that they're disappointed in my lack of updates but the simple fact is I'm a man of many means and many obligations. Unfortunately I'm eating a lot of them… Read More
2018-08-06 18:38
Lots to cover this week! Official Game-Guru News:Things are really making a lot of progress. For a long time, the Game-Guru market was fairly stable. Fairly calm. We had a crappy… Read More
2018-07-23 19:34
In an effort to keep things brief but functional here at the blog I'm going to rattle through some of the newest offerings as quickly as I can here.Official Game Guru NewsOn 7/18 a public pr… Read More
2018-07-16 19:23
I'll be the first to admit I've been overwhelmed by life and a bit burned out on Game-Guru. This has coupled to a sort of fallout with doing this blog, which I will have to start maki… Read More
2018-06-18 15:13
So as you've noticed, I've switched to a bi-weekly update system. This is to lessen the load on me, which has grown tremendously over the past few months.I have simply too many obligat… Read More
2018-06-05 14:10
Ok, I'll admit, I've been busy. Too busy. Lots of nickel and dime stuff with life and it's held me up, significantly with this type of work. I will neither confirm nor deny my Ba… Read More
2018-05-21 17:59
Official Game-Guru News:So there's a lot of traffic at this point on Game-Guru. Lots of bugs being squashed. Looks like lighting is getting looked at, specifically an SDK called… Read More
2018-05-14 18:55
Official Game-Guru News:Nothing new here. Just some AppGameKit Game-Guru Loader updates. I don't personally use either products so it's not particularly relevant to me.New Products On… Read More
2018-05-07 17:53
Been remarkably bouncing between different types of colds this week, currently dealing with a chest cold. It's been a special form of hell for about 7 days now.So with that, here's you… Read More
2018-04-30 19:33
OFFICIAL GAME-GURU NEWS:Game-Guru has officially updated! Queue the fireworks, beer, and cheers people! It's the full DX11 release with all the associated Github and PP releases… Read More
2018-04-23 15:29
I don't have a lot of time this week, regrettably. As mentioned previously this is when my real day job reaches it's crescendo and so I'm going to throw together something for this wee… Read More
2018-04-16 19:25
Official Game-Guru News:I really dig the constant release cycle we're seeing from Game-Guru and TGC now that it's gone to GitHub. Here are the full details on the 04.14.18 PP (Public P… Read More
2018-04-09 15:52
Apologies for last week. I missed the update completely as my day job as Chief Linux Systems Engineer is reaching it's yearly crescendo (culminating in early May) and so I'm finding my… Read More
2018-03-27 16:39
Official Game-Guru News:This past week marks the latest release of the public preview updates, specifically bringing us to a 3rd major update with PP. The full list of commits are avai… Read More
2018-03-26 19:42
Apologies but there's a lot going on which is preventing me from dealing with putting up a rather lengthy post about what's new in the Game-Guru world this week. I will have one for yo… Read More
2018-03-19 18:35
Welcome to another weekly wrap-up on all things Game-Guru. Things continue to shape up post-public preview v2 and we're seeing most of the artists develop a workflow around PBR assets… Read More
2018-03-14 14:34
My wife is a hardcore female gamer. She maintains a fairly popular YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/Mmogurl). While I cannot speak for her directly, I will note some… Read More
2018-03-12 18:04
I'm going to condense my weekly report this week significantly as there's not a lot going on currently. I'm also renaming "Engine Update Progress Report" to "Official Game-Guru News"Official… Read More
2018-03-06 15:15
Just a quick little update post: I've got a source for my Legal, Marketing and Distribution catch-all chapter that's been very forthcoming. He's one of the premier artists and creators… Read More
2018-03-05 18:18
Just a reminder that I spend a few hours on this site every week and new subs are appreciated greatly. I don't make a cent on it and just want to keep interest in Game-Guru alive so sp… Read More
2018-02-26 18:42
So this week I am proud to say that I've signed a book deal for my Game-Guru book (title withheld) with CRC Press. It's going to be a monster. 450 pages, minimum and it's already… Read More
2018-02-19 21:11
This week's update will be short and brief.A few major components that are worth mentioning in my area at the end about my own works.ENGINE UPDATE PROGRESS REPORTThis week was a HUGE week fo… Read More
2018-02-13 16:32
Sorry for the delayed update this week. Family's been sick and I'm not feeling that great myself.ENGINE UPDATE PROGRESS REPORTCurrently the engine appears to have a PP version brewing… Read More
2018-02-07 19:16
Minor update: In the lower portion I have some errors which were corrected by Sylvain Douce, the Senior Technical Designer @ Eidos Montreal (who made DEMD). He states:"Very good piece!… Read More
2018-02-05 17:30
ENGINE UPDATE PROGRESS REPORTIf you keep an eye on https://github.com/TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo/issues you can get an interesting sense of what is being looked at and what isn't. Currentl… Read More
2018-01-31 14:46
There's been a lot of changes this week; things that sort of shattered the situation as it stood and put us in a very interesting place. One that could either be precarious or one that… Read More
2018-01-26 19:05
In response to a pretty high quality developer for Game-Guru saying he was done with Game-Guru after making a fairly phenomenal piece of work, I replied with something I think a few more wou… Read More
2018-01-23 16:51
As mentioned previously I should probably get off blogger soon.Is it just wordpress these days or is there anything else of value out there?It dawned on me I'm basically doing the job Lee an… Read More
2018-01-22 15:46
There's virtually no value to me being on this platform.Might be time to switch to wordpress.I'm obviously shadowbanned on most of Google's services (probably due to my heavy conservative bi… Read More
2018-01-19 15:44
So while it wasn't tremendously difficult to implement, I made a simple XML Game-Guru Lua ANSI API for Notepad++. Most of us Lua scripters for Game-Guru are already using NPP(Notepad++… Read More
2018-01-17 15:55
This week will be a little brief as well. Not much overall going on as people still recover from winter. However, you will definitely want to check out the 'In my own works' sect… Read More
2018-01-17 15:54
Lee basically added a ton of Lua commands a while ago and I didn't even see it.https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218322"Added 483 new LUA commands to the scripting system to support Player… Read More
2018-01-10 16:14
I'll admit that I'm being a bit lazy again with this stuff but the fact is I get maybe 50 hits on a good day to this blog and that's being generous so I don't feel an overwhelming pressure t… Read More
2018-01-03 17:57
Happy New Years, everyone. I hope you all had a great holiday.I'm super busy getting caught up but I have a few updates to go over. From my standpoint, I completed several interesting… Read More
2017-12-19 15:31
It's come to my attention that the latest download of the time of day and weather system is busted on the store. There's a file missing that's necessary. I've set it unavailable… Read More
2017-12-18 16:59
Notice: Next week's issue will be delayed a day or so due to the holidays.ENGINE UPDATE PROGRESS REPORTNo new updates for us normies. We're still in beta-test limbo; apparently a beta… Read More
2017-12-11 17:22
ENGINE UPDATE PROGRESS REPORTSo we've all had a week or so to chew on the new Public Preview aka Open Beta of the PBR-enabled, DX11 configured Game Guru and.... it's buggy. I mean it's… Read More
2017-12-11 15:57
Welcome back to my second update. We've seen some HUGE updates this week.ENGINE UPDATE PROGRESS REPORTFirst and foremost, the public preview was released this week. The 'beta' is… Read More
2017-12-04 17:49
So I've decided to start updating *MORE REGULARLY* than I did previously. There's a lot of things coming for Game-Guru and it's worth reviewing in one place. So I'm going to begi… Read More
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