The Importance of Game Engine Authorship, Part 2

In Part 1 I said I would talk about our game Undefined Behavior more specifically. Maybe that wording was a little too liberal. By the end of the game jam, we didn’t really have a game per se. With that said, what we did end up with had a distinct feel to it.

The game was [...]

The Importance of Game Engine Authorship, Part 1

Our local game developer club, Iowa Game-Dev Friendship, held what I think was our 8th game jam in Ames this weekend. As expected, it was an awesome time. This time my team had a big setback, and because of it I came to a profound realization about game engine authorship and its importance for a [...]

TIGJam Midwest 2010

TIGJam Midwest is next weekend, June 4th-6th, 2010, at Foundry Coworking. If you’re interested, RSVP here at Eventbrite: http://tigjammidwest.eventbrite.com
Here’s the official info:
TIGJam Midwest is an indie game jam where creatives – programmers, hackers, designers, artists, or musicians – get together and make videogames in a weekend. For those who aren’t familiar with game jams, [...]

My first notgame will be “Myst minus the puzzles”

I’m not much for writing something as formal and (over?)confident as a manifesto yet, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe in them. Tale of Tales just released their second, a manifesto for notgames entitled Over Games, which was delivered at the Art History of Games conference at SCAD.
For the past year, I’ve been working [...]

On Art and Games As Art

Why We Create Art
Greg just wrote about Why do we do what we do? and eloquently summed up the hard-to-define reason for why we at Intuition create art:
These are all things that fester inside me and I desperately want to expel them.  Not that they’re demons of any shape, but it’s this compulsion to create [...]

Megabank Executive Humiliation Challenge

I’m pretty much done with a new game called MEHC. It’s a Unity game meant for sponsorship on a game portal, so I’ll start the process of shopping it around now. Here’s the trailer:

In gamer lingo, it’s a 3d, physics-y, psuedo-pixel-art cannon-shooting game with a strategic probability management element.  Based on tester feedback, [...]

Blurst Now Open to Other Developers

The awesome indie developers at Flashbang have opened up their website Blurst (http://www.blurst.com) to submissions of Unity games from other developers.

Hopefully this will be a big success, since we as developers really need more Unity portals out there.  I’ve been working on a couple small Unity games myself and have been a little uncertain if [...]