Brad recently received an e-mail from a user who had read the postmortem for The Poltiical Machine on Gamasutra Link Hi Brad, I just read your article in Gamasutra and found it pretty interesting. Sounds like the Political Machine was a fun project to work on. In discussing it, you mentioned that the reason for using DirectX 9 was the TrueType font support, and something I was wondering about was whether you looked at using the FreeType font rendering engine or not. I do some graphic...

So it's official, I'm a Guest at Dragon*Con 2008!  I don't think that I mentioned that before, although I've known that I would be a Guest since about a week after I posted the first article mentioning Dragon*Con.  I have been waiting to see what panels I'd end up doing, because they hadn't gotten back to me at all.  I finally got an e-mail from the programming comittee with my tentative schedule today (they may still make minor changes to the schedule).  S...