Chris Watts from Play-bit entertainment has written a personal retrospective, outlining some of the achievements he's had this year and where he fell short in 2010. This is the second year of his journey as an independent games developer and it's always been great to follow Chris's progress since he's been pretty open about how and why he went into indie games development and the plans he has for Play-bit entertainment through blog entries like these, his tweets, as well as the panel…
well, that is a way to spend my time.
had another go at asset pipeline, using what i had learnt over the last few months and getting the information to the engine for the shaders, as well as preserving non shader rendering.
excitement included getting a workflow to make plugins for 'gimp' (what can i say, wanted my own 'normalise' and 'height map to normal map' plugins.
got antialising of sorts on the iphone (cough, rendering to a larger than screen layer since the iOS collects application…
At this moment, many gamers around the world are caught up in the pre-Christmas game sales frenzy happening in the DLC space. There are some enormous savings to be had in the Appstore and Steam marketplace with publishers dropping prices on a whole range of their games and independent games developers collaborating on game bundles for incredibly affordable prices. While the sales drops are a drastic cut for games developers, the initial results can extremely rewarding and a successful way of…
Trainz iPad Holiday Sale!
N3V gets in the holiday mood by slashing the price of Trainz Simulator for the iPad.
Australia, 21.12.2010 - N3V Games, developer of the world’s best train simulation game, “Trainz” today announced that as a special holiday gift they will be reducing the price of Trainz Simulator for the iPad by 30% on Christmas and Boxing Day.
Trainz Simulator for iPad has roared up the charts and is regularly in the top 50 highest grossing apps in many countries around the world.…
Giselle has decided to end her duties as the main organiser for IGDA Melbourne today. If you've been part of a volunteering effort for any kind of event, you'll understand how much is involved behind the scenes and the amount of work it takes for all the correspondences and follow ups required in getting sponsors onboard, the venue organised, promoting the event and getting the word out.
It's a whole lot of work, and a lot of it can go unthanked. With the numerous IGDA Melbourne gatherings,…
Today Aussie App Sale is hosting its Cheap A%$# Tuesday event. All day the website will be posting and tweeting links to the huge collection of Tier 1 ($1.19) and Free apps featured on the website – www.aussieappsale.com
As well as promoting all of the great Aussie bargains for the Christmas break, Aussie App Sale has Promo Codes for fifteen of the featured apps, including PhotoCaddy, Posted, Magnetic Shaving Derby and the entire Gamebook Adventure series. Many of these codes will be given away…
Jane 'Truna' Turner – coordinator, IGDA Brisbane / co-founder, 48 Hour Game Making Challenge
John Passfield – Chief Creative Bloke, 3 Blokes Studios / co-founder and former Design Director, Krome Studios
Michael Dobele – Executive Producer, Halfbrick Studios
Leigh Miller - 3D Artist, Ubisoft Studios (Canada)
Hugh Walters – Art Lead, Halfbrick Studios
Dan Graf – 3D Artist, Dr D Studios / International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Sydney founder
Shainiel Deo – CEO, Halfbrick Studios
Matthew…
Bane Games, a new independent games developer heralding from Brisbane and consisting of devs who used to be in the commercial games industry, have just launched their first game for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices. Their game is called Flick Buddies, and we had a special opportunity to talk to Alistair Doulin, one of the main programmers from Bane Games, about their move to indiehood, their team, and their newly released title.
To start off with, can you tell us a bit about yourself…
Drop Spider Games is proud to announce the release of Golem Defense on the App Store.
Priced $US 3.99 for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch and iPad.
The prequel to the Golem Crusades PC +300K downloaded game, with over 50,000 YouTube hits.
Build and control an army of Golems to drive back an invading evil force. Liberate the land and crush the invading spawn. You will need to make decisions with lightning speed, plan your attack, build your defenses and resolve clashes between good and evil…
In good holiday spirit, the folks at THQ sent an editor at Kotaku an awesome cake in the form of Blue Tongue's de Bob.
As you can see in the picture, it looks like a pretty accurate effort, although one wonders how de Blob's ears and limbs managed to remain stern and intact after its transport to Kotaku HQ.
Head on over to Kotaku for the rest of the cake pictures of de Blob!
