The headline says it all, really. Derek Yu’s fantastic roguelike/platformer/puzzle/devilishly difficult game Spelunky is finally, and officially, out of beta. And it’s still free. Better yet, expect to see Spelunky HD (well, Yu — or should I say Mossmouth? — is probably more creative than I am, so chances are […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
Ask any gamer to imagine their favourite games cross-dressing as different genres and you’ll have yourself an entertaining waste of an afternoon. Turn that into a drinking game somehow and you’ll have some of the best ideas that nobody can remember (“Hey! What about Bejewelled as a drinking game! You’d […]
Comp 22 Results
I feel really stupid for missing out on the announcement of Ludum Dare 15, but I’d like to try make up for it by pointing out the 144-strong list of entries around the subject of “caverns”. I’ve been randomly clicking around and checking a few of these buggers out, and […]
LD15 Entry: Collapse
When you sit down to write a book, one of the most important things to bear in mind is the shaping and formation of your expression: if you can elegantly express in a single sentence what a lesser writer would need a paragraph to evoke, then you’ve got yourself a […]
Minimised game design for indies
Save Jack was one of last year’s honorable mentions in Microsoft’s annual DreamBuildPlay game development competition, made by a pair of South African devs with a penchant for interesting ideas and a desire to put them into action. We decided that it would be a good idea to interview these […]
Jacking up
“Obscurity is a greater threat than piracy” – Tim O’Reilly. Is that a killer quote or what? Gamasutra is currently running a feature entitled Building Buzz for Indie Games. The link has been spreading all over the Internet, and it only seems fair that we put it here too. Not […]
Building Buzz for Indie Games
Right, so I’m aware that we haven’t really shut up about these games since they hit the spotlight, but bear with me for a moment. See, Zombie Cow Studios have decided to burst their banks and publish elsewhere. Not just any elsewhere, mind, but on the biggest elsewhere ever to […]
Steamy adventure pair
This tutorial covers basic algorithms with vectors.
Basic Vector Recipes
Over on the Game.Dev forum, contributor DukeOFprunes pointed out this really kickass list of readings and other linkage from Gaming Horror. It covers an impressive variety of topics: stuff related to business, indie communities, engines, tech, assets and … well, go on and just have a look at the collection. […]
LOTS of indie dev links
GameCareerGuide.com graces us with a compelling argument in favour of independent development, showing how true innovation is only likely to arise from independent sources. The piece reasons that, due to its inherent nature, the flexibility of indie development gives it a considerable reign of freedom (and potential) over larger development […]
Independently independent
This one is a quickie because there’s not much to be said that hasn’t been said on the official Team Fortress 2 blog already: (1) Valve are cool and stuff. (2) Team Fortress 2 is cool and stuff. (3) Valve are showing us how they make TF2 maps. There’s a […]
Valve and their maps
Ed: Yo Nandrew, where’s that ShellBlast review you promised me? You’re already a day late. Me: Ah, er, bad news. I haven’t written it yet. I’ve been banging my head against this level 30 nuke defusal for most of the afternoon, and as far as I know I’ve still got […]
Shellblast
The gaming press recently offered us a little snippet of tantalising information: Zombie Cow Studios, the devs behind Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are planning on going episodic. Yarp, that means what it sounds like. Little bite-sized chunks of Ben and Dan all over the place. Hopefully […]