The entire Sickhead Games crew will be in attendance at the 2009 Game Developers Conference this year.  Be sure to stop by the Garage Games booth on the Expo Floor to see some great new tech we’ve been contributing to Torque 3D, and have a go at our lush “South Pacific” demo.  Tom will be at the booth giving a brief presentation at 2:00 pm on Thursday, discussing the demo and showing off our new Torque Forest Kit technology.

The Sickhead team is currently working feverishly on tools and tech for the next version of Torque 3D (formerly TGEA), the flagship 3D gaming engine from Garage Games. Expected to be released later this year, T3D will be packed with some amazing, long awaited features and improvements. Follow Brett Seyler’s development blogs on the Garage Games site for details. Some very exciting stuff happening!

We briefly had some Be the Dinosaur pods in the office recently for testing. Check out the Flickr set for more photos.

As part of finishing up the first phase of Be The Dinosaur, James took the time to write up a postmortem specifically on the dino AI.  It’s a bit technical, but if you’re vaguely familiar with AI programming it should be easy to follow.  You can find the post and the PDF over on his GG plan.

A few things have changed around here recently, namely the new company branding and site. The product pages and employee bios have been expanded, so go learn more about Sickhead Games now.  Bear with us as we get a few wrinkles ironed out.

Also, here is some video from the current “Be the Dinosaur” project, in museums now:

Sickhead is looking to add another programmer to work on site with us here in our Dallas, Texas office. If you’re interested please check out our ad and drop us a line. We’re hoping to fill this position quickly as we have a lot of cool projects coming up!

A long time coming, but the Torsion TorqueScript IDE has shipped and is now available from the GarageGames Developer Store.

And this isn’t the end of the road for Torsion. We have a laundry list of improvements and new features to put into the next version. So download the demo, buy a copy, and support indie developers!

After the release of the TorqueX open beta, the process has begun of moving the Adventure Kit over to the XBox 360.

A quick shot of it in action:

The last two weeks was a tough slog, but the tile pack finally got and name and the TGB Adventure Kit has officially been released!

Congrats to the team over here for cranking it out! We’ll post more about it in the next few days, but first… some deserved rest.

Go check it out.