If you’ve been following the ponycorns saga, you know that i made a game with my 5-year-old daughter Cassandra at a weekend game jam, and it went viral. This isn’t the story of its unexpected success … i’ll save that story for another time. It’s still unfolding. This is the story of how my highest [...] Keep Reading

As planned, i took my five-year-old daughter Cassie to TOJam, the three-day Toronto independent game jam, to make a game with me. And here it is: Play Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure Cassie drew all the pictures, wrote all the titles, and recorded the voice of the main character. She also came up with the NPCs [...] Keep Reading

Dear RIM Blackberry Playbook People, Thank you for sending me a Playbook. i like it very much. i didn’t very much like the steps involved to put my work on the device, though. It was the most needlessly complicated thing i’ve had to do in all my life. i’d like to see the Playbook succeed, [...] Keep Reading

Tom Brokaw calls the folks who survived the Great Depression and went on to fight in Word War II “the Greatest Generation”. That’s fine – i’ll give them that. When they make movies based on the Greatest Generation, we get Saving Private Ryan. When they make movies based on my generation, we get Dude, Where’s [...] Keep Reading

Activetuts+, a site packed with tutorials, articles and tips (MUCH LIKE MY OWN), recently posted an interview with me. In it, you’ll learn all about Adobe’s negligent parenting practices, why Unity 3D Game Development By Example is the greatest book since this one, and how to properly pay a prostitute. Interview With Untold Entertainment’s Ryan [...] Keep Reading