Kongregate Now the Best Opportunity for Bootstrapping a Game Company

Gamasutra recently interviewed Jim Greer about the news of Kongregate getting $5 million in funding. Kongregate plans to spend most of that on Funding the Flash Renaissance, as Gamasutra put it. The games Kongregate will be funding will be “premium games” - those that are a step above most of the current games [...]

Text Message Game Development.

I was downtown at a cafe on game jam night, and since I don’t have a laptop I had to improvise which turned out to be a very unique game developing experience. I haven’t done any research on this topic or anything but I think I may have pioneered a new method which I am [...]

Clouds R Pretty

Bit o’the old update fer you fine folken. I been workin’ on PP:AFAA and, by extension, Melba Toast pretty good the past couple days, and boy oh boy is she startin to come ’round. I s’pose it’s been a long while since muh last post, so I reckon I start at the beginnin.
Separating [...]

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 [...]

Flash Lesson: Always Hack It In First

I’m going through Foundation Actionscript for Flash 8 in an effort to re-learn how to code. In chapter 9, there’s some talk of tweening, so I thought I’d try to apply my knowledge to our logo to make a simple animation.

In doing this, I learned an important lesson: always [...]

APEs, Motors and Floaters, Oh My!

So, I spent some time getting back to PP:AFAA today and worked out some hacky solutions to the floaters. Getting buoyancy to look good was actually fairly challenging for my tiny brain, however I created a fairly convoluted algorithm which should supply all the requirements for the prof. This got me thinking hard [...]

Another Round of Pitches to Adult Swim

Out goes another 3 pitches to Adult Swim. That comes to a total of 7 now. Although, it seems like we’ve sent way more than that. Maybe we’re just getting used to it now. I don’t want to say that we’re getting good at it, but I’m not sure how else to [...]