Metaplace - MMOs and Virtual Worlds Made Easy?

It’s slightly old news by now, but I just found out about Metaplace today, the project that Raph Koster and the rest of Areae has been working on all this time.
The website claims that you’ll be able to explore these easily-created virtual worlds without having to download anything. I’m guessing what they mean is [...]

Putting Fun Into a Press Kit

In preperation for the future, and as an unfortunate necessity, we got together on Wednesday to go over business stuff and set up some things for a press kit. Part of the press kit was a group photo, so we tried to have as much fun as possible having a photo shoot. Here [...]

Iowa Indie Game Jam 2007

This weekend was the first Iowa Indie Game Jam, and it was a great success. Its beginnings were humble and spontaneous. Andres came down to Des Moines to see the coolness that is going on here - this weekend it was The Grey Market. While visiting, he proposed having a game development [...]

To Share or Not To Share

So I was talking to Andres about marketing yesterday. I’ve been debating a lot about whether or not it would be a good idea to share a lot of the development process with the community. This would include posting WIP stuff. We both agreed that most people don’t understand WIP postings. [...]