Meaty arguments break out from time to time on Twitter, but the 140 character limit cramps my long-winded style. Most recently, UK game dev Iain Lobb and US game dev Adam Saltsman were discussing Adam’s article Contrivance and Extortion II: Clarifications, Feedback & Suggestions, in which he condemns certain game design styles as “unethical”. Iain [...] Keep Reading

i recently watched the Sesame Street flick The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland with my tiny little girls. i managed expectations by paying a requisite visit to MrSkin.com to learn that there are no nude scenes in the movie (although several characters spend the entire running time not wearing any pants). (tickle him where, exactly?) [...] Keep Reading

Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure, the game i co-authored with my 5-year-old daughter Cassandra, was a finalist this year at IndieCade 2011. You’ve seen plenty of pictures from E3, GDC, Tokyo Game Show and other more well-known video game industry events, but what’s IndieCade like? Come with me – it’s my magical IndieCade adventure! Our Arrival [...] Keep Reading

At your house, and in schools across the country, “E” might stand for “Elephant”. But this is how we roll in my family: my daughter Cassandra, co-creator of Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure and a big Minecraft fan, created this fridge/fan art of the game’s latest enemy: The lower-case “e” looks like a “g”, but we’re [...] Keep Reading

Last week, Packt Publishing released the second edition of my seminal and important work, Unity 3.x Game Development by Example: A Beginner’s Guide, which helps fledgling game developers learn Unity through a serious of bad puns and dick jokes. What’s New in Version 2? Absolutely nothing! The Unity 3.x version is identical to the first [...] Keep Reading