If you were there during the early days of the telephone, wouldn’t you have loved to have provided input? Maybe suggest to Alexander Graham Bell that telephones should issue low-grade electric shocks to teenage girls who talk on the device for more than half an hour? Or suggest a magnetic socket to [...] Keep Reading

i don’t often peer into my crystal ball to predict trends, for fear of looking like a complete nerd. Remember that time i said Jesus was coming at 4PM on a Tuesday, and we all hung out at that bus stop for, like, five hours, until Pete got the munchies and did a Taco [...] Keep Reading

I’m back from Casual Connect in Seattle. It’s a smallish gaming conference for folks in the casual games space , which encompasses basically any game that isn’t a disc- or cartridge-based console (Xbox 360/Wii/PS3/DS/PSP) title. There’s a little bit of cross-over on the two leading handheld consoles, but most of the folks at [...] Keep Reading

i’m taking Two by Two from the Untold Entertainment library to see how various online monetization methods for Flash games pan out. Part 4: Newgrounds Newgrounds is an American Flash Portal created by the people, for the people … and by “people”, i mean mostly adolescent boys and similarly-minded men who revel in exploitative content created in [...] Keep Reading

As i mentioned in another post (iPhone vs. the Basement Battalion), our decreasing faith in Flash development has lead us to investigate the iPhone. Our experiments in self-publishing our own Flash games (chronicled in our ongoing and depressing Pimp My Game series) have shown that there’s too much free content online to reasonably compete. [...] Keep Reading