Julian Pritchard talks to DigiPen student Alicia Yeargin about her degree, her experience as a student, and her thoughts on games and game design.
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 good folks for their take [...]
To accompany our review of the game, we sat down with Glum Buster’s sole creator, Justin Leingang, for a discussion about the game and its intriguing sales model. Q. Firstly, tell us about yourself. JL. My name is Justin Leingang. During the daytime, I work in the commercial video games industry. During the nighttime, I [...]
We’ve accosted indie developer Derek Yu, creator of Aquaria – which we covered extensively in the past – for a chat on his new creation, Spelunky, a unique blend of the replayability of roguelikes and the immediacy of platformers. All this goes well together with our review on the game this month too.
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 19, released in December 2007. Bit-Blot, comprising of indie developers Alec Holowka and Derek Yu, is the force responsible for the IGF Grand Prize winning game, Aquaria, which was released on 7 December 2007. We chat them up and ask them about their exploits and their future prospects. [...]
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 22, released in June 2008. Q. Mind telling us a little about yourself? Danny. My name is Danny Day. I’m 27 years old. I own QCF Design, an independent game development studio. I run Game.Dev, a non-profit community of South African game developers. I’ve lectured on games at [...]

