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window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Seeing as how you’re reading this website at this specific time of day, I have to imagine you have — at one point or another — imagined what it’d be like to create a game from scratch; we’ve all been there. Markus Persson, the gentleman best known for Minecraft, can help with [...]
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25 Jul 2010A complete set of video presentations from No More Sweden 2010 held earlier this month are now available to watch online, featuring talks by developers like Crayon Physics creator Petri Purho, Bernhard Schulenberg (designer of Where is My Heart?), and Andreas Zecher (Understanding Games) among others. The list of recorded presentations that can be viewed [...]
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10 Jul 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Lewis, when marching into the purely-conceptual RPS office to deliver his beautiful Bargain Bucket also brings news that Introversion have made their source code for Darwinia and Multiwinia available. For thirty quid at the Introversion store you gain access to the full source code to nose at and mod to your heart’s [...]
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7 Jul 2010If you need money to bring your indie game concept to life, and you don’t want to enter Activision’s design contest, you now have another alternative: The Indie Fund, created by a team of established indie devs, is soliciting applications. To apply, you need a playable prototype, a video and, you know, a cool game. [...]
Continuing the Game Developers Conference 2010 free video lecture series, organizers have debuted the ‘Indie Gamemaker Rant’ from the 2010 Independent Games Summit, also adding multiple new site navigation features. The new lecture, highly rated by GDC attendees, is part of a free update published at the GDC Vault website, and features video technology that [...]
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28 Jun 2010Finally, I can show off what’s been keeping me so preoccupied for the past week (and all morning as well!), as we announce the opening of the 2011 Independent Games Festival and explain all the changes we’ve prepared for its 13th year. Chief amongst those is the addition of a new category for iPhone/iPad, DS, [...]
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7 Jun 2010Crossfire is the second in a series of Xbox Live Indie Games arena shooters from Radiangames – the first being JoyJoy which was released recently and became a top 6 finalist in the Dream.Build.Play competition.
The trick behind Crossfire is the abil…
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3 Jun 2010After the Humble Indie Bundle topped the incredible heights of $1million total sales, the developers involved announced they’d be releasing the source for their games (after a quick code clean-up, of course!). Wolfire’s Lugaru went first, followed by Penumbra: Overture. Gish‘s source was burst open a few days ago. Now Aquaria has followed suit, rounding [...]
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9 May 2010Those of you who already bought the Humble Indie Bundle and regularly check your email will know that Amanita Design’s point-and-click adventure game Samorost 2 was added to the line-up earlier today. Everyone else: the surprise is out! This fresh addition can be downloaded for free if you paid prior to its inclusion. With a [...]
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8 May 2010Caution: loud music. Here’s a preview clip of Super Meat Boy in action, showing bits and pieces of the new levels designed for Team Meat’s upcoming XBLA platformer (also for Windows, Mac and WiiWare). I’m guessing that the video was made to convince voters to pick their game for a GTTV feature, so we will [...]