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 [...]

We’re looking for a student intern.

I just finished the second round of “marketing” for our first internship. This won’t be our first employee but it’s close enough that we’re a bit frightened/excited. ISU has offered us a great deal for providing one lucky student [we think] with a paid internship for this Fall semester and we’re doing our best to [...]

The trouble with not knowing what we’re doing.

Design has been on my mind a lot lately. Liferaft has recently been in a kind of growing-pains stage which is a point in the development where Mike and I fumble around and try to learn how to develop video games. That’s actually a lot of it for us. Each new game we do is [...]