Why do we do what we do?

This started out as a lengthy comment over at Edmund’s Do’s and Don’ts Manifesto on IndieGames. [via @godatplay] You should read that before reading this.

Edmund’s points are all very sound, but like any list, it’s easy to pick apart. But really what came out was a discussion about how each of us as developers approaches [...]

2009 was a real roller coaster but we’re still strapped in.

tl;dr: I know this is over 2K words so if you just want to get an update on what’s going on right now and what we’re planning, skip to the 2010 heading at the end of the post.

Most individual years of my life have been pretty homogenous. Save an errant semester, my entire life up [...]

I’m working on a few things, most importantly a new game called Pterogative

Right now I’m in the middle of working on Mikengreg, a tentative new brand/company? for… Mike ‘n’ Greg. We’re also working on a couple of games semi-simultaneously, each one headed up by one of us. Mike’s is called Eon, which he is polishing/wrapping up this week. My game is called Pterogative and it’s serious business [...]

Here’s my problem with Fun.

I love fun, but after we made Gray, something went off in my head. So now I’ll rant about that. :)

Me

“This is actually kind of easy. It’s not perfect or even great, but making a game with a message is a relatively simple pursuit. So why is making a fun game so hard?”

After some thinking [...]

We just got back from IndieCade and it’s Mike’s birthday.

Wow.

Mikengreg just returned safely from IndieCade to the gray plains of Iowa and we couldn’t be happier. It’s Mike’s birthday [wish him well on twitter] today and we’re both charged full of IndieCade. Countless memories, so many new-old friends, it was an unbelievable gathering of intimate and heartfelt personalities that we will never forget. We [...]

How I find good folks to collaborate with.

I just got off the phone with my friend and intuition collective member, Ted Martens, and we were talking a bit about collaborations. Being that game development is rarely the product of just one person, [some exceptions being: cactus, eskill and mossmouth] collaborations of some kind are often useful. But when I talk to people [...]

Gray is in IndieCade and Fig. 8 will be at the Eurogamer Expo.

So we’ve known about the IndieCade thing for awhile but haven’t gotten around to announcing it officially just yet here. Though, we just found out Fig. 8 will be across the pond in the Eurogamer 2009 expo so I figured we’d get two announcements with one stone! It’s a pro PR move by us, to [...]