The Torontoist, a publication which i admit i don’t think i’ve consciously allowed myself to realize exists (being that they devote themselves to Torontoism, which i am fundamentally against), has published an article by Steve Kupferman, who was a fly on the wall at TOJam 4 this past weekend: The Torontoist: Ankle Deep in TOJam The piece [...] Keep Reading

i created Bloat. at TOJam, the Toronto game jam, this past weekend. Click here to play Bloat.! i spent a lot less time on this year’s game than i did with my other entries, Two By Two and Here Be Dragons – Bloat. clocked in at around twenty-two hours. i took time out of the schedule [...] Keep Reading

Dusty pillows, jumbo freezie wrappers and empty energy drink cans litter the floors. Another TOJam has ended. (technically, this is a picture of set-up, but any shot that’s not packed with slap-happy devs coding up a storm is equally forlorn-looking) (Team photos were all taken by the super-talented Brendan Lynch, and unceremoniously snaked from his Flickr [...] Keep Reading

Every year, the organizers of TOJam (the city’s annual orgiastic game design bacchanal) choose a theme to guide the goings-on. Last year’s theme was CHEESE. Most of the Jam’s participants took the directive literally. There were games about blasting towers of cheese, games about digging through cheesy substrata, and games about entire [...] 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