i’ve been talking and posting a LOT lately about Flash microtransactions. i’m at the point now where if i had just spent the same amount of time developing that i’ve spent flapping my gumholes, i’d have published some solid content by now. But i’m hoping that all of this research and planning and thinking and [...] Keep Reading

There’s a wave of excitement in the Flash game dev community, as a small band of respectable developers speak out against the villains in their industry, and slowly begin to turn the tide against negative public opinion surrounding Flash game development. This week saw the removal of a post on monetizing Flash games by Russian [...] Keep Reading

No – seriously. Why don’t you? One of the most-repeated tips i heard at the Casual Connect conference a few weeks ago was to develop a strong brand. Customers like strong brands. Strong branding unifies all your … your stuff under one label. Strong brands are about striking, professional-looking logos, consistent use of colours and [...] Keep Reading

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 Edison so that [...] 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 Bell [...] Keep Reading