Game Developers Anonymous

I’m at the GDC with the rest of the Intuition collective, and we spent all Monday and Tuesday attending the Independent Games Summit.  It was an amazing experience…as expected.  I was touched by a particular talk from Alec Holowka (Aquaria) and Tommy Refenes (Goo!) entitled How to Finish a Game Project You… Hate?

They discussed their [...]

Dinowaurs Accessories Preview!

Development on Dinowaurs is beginning to wrap up here at Intuition Games.  Things are getting hectic.  One thing we’ve been up lately is tying into Kongregate’s microtransaction system for Premium Game Developers, so that players will be able to purchase accessories.  Not only that, they’ll be able to earn them for free!  It’s really exciting [...]

Dinowaurs Maptesting update, Tournament today at 6pm CST!

A couple weeks ago we started a plan to do maptesting three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 6pm CST.  It’s going pretty well so far, but I wanted to send out another call for the private beta testers to show up at 6pm Central today so we can continue testing and [...]

Iowa Indie Game Jam #3 success

The third Iowa Indie Game Jam was a great success!  It was held this weekend October 17-19 in Cedar Falls at the apartment of Andres Reinot, an 8monkey Labs co-founder.  He hosted an artist from Phantom EFX, several hobbyists and ISU students from Ames, four members of our company Intuition Games, and some friends and [...]

Internet Archive - free music for game developers

We’ve posted an article previously about free music on the Internet Archive.  But I’ve recently found something else:  music you can use in your games through a collection on the Internet Archive called Open Source Audio.
Much of this is music, and it’s licensed for some sort of free usage, depending on the licensing terms selected [...]

Dinowaurs Beta (sort of) released, improvements abound

We’ve been hard at work continuing development these past couple weeks.  Our heads have been down as we sweat it out toward our next deadline - Dinowaurs Gold.  We finally released a Beta build to the existing alpha testers.  For those of you who had access to the alpha, the new link is at the [...]

Dinowaurs Beta coming soon!

For the last 10 days or so we’ve been preparing Dinowaurs Beta.  It’s almost here!  We even have a nice little banner on the front of the Kongregate website to coax people to sign up in the forum thread.

What are some of the changes?  The first thing one would notice is a brand new main [...]