Gamercamp, now in its third year, is an annual festival in Toronto that celebrates video game culture, uniting local fans and developers under an orgiastic umbrella of game-loving. Here’s my take on Day One. I Fold It was a stretch for me to arrive at Gamercamp for 9:30. It’s a good day when i can [...] Keep Reading

This is the first part of our tutorial series by Intern Sina on creating an AIR application for free on a PC using FlashDevelop, and deploying it as a native app on an iOS device like the Apple iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Jump to other parts in the series: Part 2 – Obtain your [...] 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