I think it's both. :poly104: There's an editorial in this month's Game Developer about this issue, Brandon Sheffield relates developer tech publication to the aims of Gamasutra and GDMag themselves. He mentioned Insomniac Games' Nocturnal Initiative. It's all code-related (no pretty pics) but it's a great example of…
I hear you. Depends on the studio though, some actively encourage whitepapers and the like, Maxis for example. http://chrishecker.com/Real-time_Motion_Retargeting_to_Highly_Varied_User-Created_Morphologies There's a lot to be said for sharing tech ideas... advancing the state of the art, getting feedback from other devs,…