i took a breezy trip through X’10 after work today. That’s the Microsoft holiday preview press event, where you get to put your sticky mitts on all the stuff you heard about at E3 a few months earlier. Here, for the joy of cooking, are my thoughts. i’m old. i’ve been going to these events [...] Keep Reading

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