{"id":1817,"date":"2013-09-23T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2013-09-23T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:47:34","slug":"game-developer-magazine-complete-archive-1994-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/09\/23\/game-developer-magazine-complete-archive-1994-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Developer Magazine, complete archive 1994-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt it a bit sad when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/190148\/\">Game Developer Magazine closed down in July<\/a>. Though it was for a long clear that specialist magazines were threatened by, well, the internet, GDMag did provide an edited sense of what was happening in the game industry at any given time (with a North American slant, of course). I also remember poring over introductions to network programming in (it must have been) 1995 or so.<\/p>\n<p>Now the entire back archive of the magazine is available directly for free, in PDF form.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/gdmag\">http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/gdmag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is pretty good as a document of 20 years of video game history. Remember when we were all (and all students were) aspiring to be AAA developers? It really happened, and here is the documentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt it a bit sad when Game Developer Magazine closed down in July. Though it was for a long clear that specialist magazines were threatened by, well, the internet, GDMag did provide an edited sense of what was happening in the game industry at any given time (with a North American slant, of course). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/09\/23\/game-developer-magazine-complete-archive-1994-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Developer Magazine, complete archive 1994-2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}