Dates have been announced for the fourth incarnation of the Toronto Indie Game Jam, or TOJam – so-named because “T.O.” is a common abbreviation for Toronto, and because three days without sleeping or showering tends to cultivate quite a foot funk. The Jam runs May 1-3 here in Toronto. The Jam is an event where [...] Keep Reading

Often when building games or other graphically complex flash applications it is important to gauge performance on different systems or in different browsers. Flash Player has no built in way to do this other than to eyeball the resulting playback and make a guess. Fortunately with some simple calculations this can be solved. Here Comes [...] Keep Reading

Thank God we have The Onion to shout out that the Emperors of excessivelly violent video games have no clothes: Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face No, your game does not have a “good story” (note the distinct jab at the stylistic but vapid Max Payne series). This [...] Keep Reading

This tutorial teaches you how to set up your game so that everything stops when you hit the “pause” button. This movie requires Flash Player 9 This is a bit of structural/best-practices advice i gleaned when i was learning C# programming in XNA for the Xbox 360. Flash/Actionscript behaves a little differently than other programs. [...] Keep Reading

Joystiq links to a brief article on the importance of marketing your game when you self-publish: Sony rep warns against poor marketing for self-published games Chris Eden from Sony suggests marketing your game at least two months in advance of the release date. And where’s a good place to start talking up your opus? Why, [...] Keep Reading