Thanks so much to everyone who voted for us to win Indie Game Dev Blog’s Unity iPhone contest. We totally won, which is awesome. 0ur entry was our fun crime-themed puzzle game Kahoots™, which we modeled entirely in clay AND built to the iPhone screen spec from the very beginning of the project. As [...] Keep Reading

The over-arching theme this year at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is the democratization of game development. i can’t escape it. At least two sessions a day feature companies opening up their software and platforms to the unwashed masses so that they can create their own games. Here are [...] Keep Reading

This was my second shot at creating a game using Microsoft’s new XNA Framework: A memory game is my project of choice whenever i learn a new language or technology – C# in this case. Memory games require you to learn loops, arrays, random numbers, input control, game states, branching statements … many of the [...] Keep Reading

i started fooling around with XNA back when it was first released, and i produced this gem: i drew the button graphics myself and used free NASA images for the backgrounds. Coming from a Flash background, the idea of having one master loop and programming “game states” was completely foreign to me. This “game” was just [...] Keep Reading