Okay, so you’ve seen the post I made about the Indie Strategy Bundle, which was just a re-post of Cliff’s, Vic’s, and my press release. Cliff and Vic, naturally, made much more interesting posts on their own blogs, talking about the context of the bundle, their own feelings about it, etc. I thought I’d add…
I am a bad, bad man for not having blogged about this sooner. Last year I blogged about How I Chose SlimDX as my graphics/sound/etc library of choice. And I’ve been meaning to blog about how I chose my network library, and what I think of it, yet have failed to do so. This was…
I’m not known for being brief, but I’ll try to keep it as short as possible for this post. Fact is, I have a ton of work I should be doing on Tidalis, but I was struck by inspiration today after watching the various shows of the Penny Arcade TV Show, which I hadn’t managed…
Recently an IGF judge accused me of seemingly adding “complexity for the sake of complexity” to AI War. Naturally I disagree with him/her, but I think that it does raise some interesting design questions that are very much worth exploring. So here we are. The Merits of SimplicityFirst of all, let’s talk about simplicity. Simplicity…
Last month, I wrote about a hypothetical funding model for indie games development. In it, I posited the question: is there such a thing as an “expert indie developer?” I quickly answered with my belief: yes, it’s possible, and there are examples all around you. This post is about what makes for an expert indie…
Right now there’s a huge sale going on at Steam, with many games (including AI War) being on large discount. In a recent comment thread over at Rock, Paper Shotgun, some people were wondering how these sorts of sales affect the profits made by indie developers. I commented there, but thought I’d also turn this…
Justin Vincent recently wrote a blog post about what he calls the Venture Matrix, which is basically a way to create a huge company out of a lot of little companies– or, alternatively/additionally to make it easier to launch successful startup companies. It’s a long article, and it starts out with a lot of semi-tangential…
This post is a response to the co-op review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii on Co-Optimus. I’m a longtime fan of co-optimus, and so I found it interesting that they gave NSMBW a 2.5/5 on their co-op review, and a 4.5/5 overall. I’ve had the game for a few days now, and have made…
In this new feature, Design Right, I’m going to look at games other than my own — specifically, at certain things that other games do right. I spend a lot of time thinking about other games and what they do well, and I think it’s useful for discussion. So. Demon’s Souls, for the PS3. Yes,…
The Herald-Sun recently did an article about Pablo Vega, Arcen Games’ composer. Pablo has a lot of exciting things going on his life (local TV pilot, concert with his friend Anoop), and AI War is just one of them. To read more about him, including is prodigious start as a musician, click over to the…
