"Indie PR's Got Talent" – The GDC Europe Panel I was on is available online for free!

The Game Developer Conference (GDC), occasionally releases videos and slides from their vault for free after a certain period of time has passed. The most recent releases is from 2011’s Indie PR’s Got Talent, which I was fortunate enough to be a part of. Hosted by  @BinaryTweedDeej of IndieCity, fellow journalists Christian Nutt (@ferricide)  and Michael Rose…

I’ve decided to finally release my game

I’ve decided to finally release my game. And by release, I mean submit it to playtesting, take some brief feedback, and then finally place it into peer review. Once it passes that it can be released on XBLIG.  I’m doing this for a few reasons:   1)  Learning It’s nice to have feedback from other…

Dream.Build.Play dev diary 4

Well if you couldn’t tell by now, this game wasn’t finished in time for Dream.Build.Play  submission. I actually had the game working correctly, but didn’t have anywhere near enough features that I wanted and it was about as bare bones as it possibly could be. I figured “why rush?” and began to take my time…

Dream.Build.Play dev diary 3

So I took off more time than I had intended when recording these posts. I was trying to update it once each week or so, but I Just haven’t been making enough progress to justify it. I don’t have much to show in terms of screenshots either because I haven’t made any progress in the…

Dream.Build.Play dev diary 2

Update: I’ve found the thread where in the App Hub where I got the original idea for the powerups. It is now linked. This is part 2 of my Dream.Build.Play journal, where I outline what it’s like to learn the technical side of XNA and C#. You can find my first part here. As I…

The Indie Games Summer Uprising site is up!

We’ve finally launched the Indie Games Summer Uprising site! Josh Addison, Nathan Smith, and Chris Brousseau have all done an outstanding job with the web design, art work, and initial launch trailer. You can find more of their work at Blazing Forge Games and Game Production Studios. In addition to the site, we’ve released the initial launch…

Unreal Development Kit tutorials

I’ve decided to start creating some tutorials of my own after becoming more and more frustrated with the lack of working camera ones. Take a look under my Unreal Projectst page to find out how to set up a Mega Man 2 style side scrolling camera and control scheme. I’ve made some big overhauls to…

Death Sentence website is live!

See, I really do make games and not just write about them! Take a gander at the site I created for Death Sentence. It is still very It’s a great team so far, and I’ve been fortunate enough to hop on, although later in development to work as both an environment artist and web developer.…

UDK Updates – Tech Editor and 3D Modeler

I’ve recently been approached by a publisher to work as a Technical Editor for an upcoming book. It is titled “Unreal Development Kit Programming Beginner’s Guide. My responsibilities include verifying that the author’s information is correct, as well as to update the publisher on engine changes as they occur. I’ll release more detail shortly before…