New word: committr

committr (verb) - Twittering in anticipation of something fun/cool you’re about to do, but...

Check out ASD’s Lifeforce - probably the best...

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Medium vs. the Message

“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which...”
— Norman Mailer

Getting Real

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GDC 2007 and Zen distribution update

Hey folks, I know it’s been awhile. I hope this site doesn’t become redundant with our...

Indie Game Development Tools

Recently I was at the Casuality games conference in Seattle, which is a smallish but very...

Zen of Sudoku!

In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been for the past couple months, I have an...

GDC 2006 wrap-up

Another year has gone by and that means another Game Developer’s Conference! This is the...

Want to make a game? Here's how.

I get a lot of e-mail from people who want to get started in games but don’t know where to...

The Innovator's Dilemma

In my ongoing quest to figure out how to make interesting new games that the market will still...

Orson Scott Card and Dani Bunten Berry

I just saw this article linked from Slashdot. It is a column written by the great science-fiction...

Video game sell sheet

How do you summarize a game concept? How do you pitch it? How can you get an idea if your game...

The Revolution will be Downloaded

There was a great panel at our local IGDA meeting last night. It was called “The Revolution...

Project Offset licenses tech

My aquaintances over at Project Offset have been shaking up the graphics technology field for a few...

Hollywood game development part #2

I previously wrote about a new model for game development that a few people have thought of...

Getting started in the industry

I get tons of e-mail from high school kids that want to learn about ways to get started in the game...

A day in the life of fledgling game...

I thought it might be nice to describe what my average day might look like. Today wasn’t a...

Game investment

This week I was lucky enough to attend a video game investor conference, here in San Francisco. It...

Prototyping games through narrative

When creating something complex and new, it’s extremely helpful to be able to visualize it in...

Hollywood game development model

Here’s something I’ve been thinking about and researching a lot recently. It’s a...

Truly next-generation development

It seems like game developers are always saying it, but it really IS an exciting time to be a game...

TBS ready to take over games

The big cable companies are interested in games. It was bound to happen some time. I’m sure...

Blue Oceans

I warned all of you that this blog would be not only about game design and development, but about...

Charlie is a video game designer and programmer and has been working on PC games for himself and...