Michael Morrison
The August 1997 cover of Game Developer magazine. Two translucent violet hands reach toward each other across a starfield and almost touch, a spark of light between their fingertips, with strips of film running diagonally behind them, each frame holding a wireframe figure running over a red grid. The lead line reads 'Artists and Programmers in Peaceful Coexistence'; a banner across the top says 'On the Front Line of Game Innovation', and coloured tabs down the left list features on multiplayer data distribution, character animation, design documents, and Dani Bunten Berry on the soapbox.

Java Network Game Programming

Game Developer Magazine · 1997 · Author

Building a two-player networked Connect Four game in Java, with a complete walkthrough of socket programming, client-server architecture, and the underlying Internet protocols. Originally published in Game Developer Magazine, August 1997. The annotated version with a 2026 preface lives in the Vault.