we are back with news, old battles, games and a lot of new stuff
Feb/102
Its past my bedtime and I’m up and about doing yet another gamecron. Sorry to have disappeared on you guys; I was away on a short journey to the awesome Taj Mahal and Agra Fort with a couple of my friends and after I came back, I had some trouble getting back to writing, But here I am.
I am know that you will have your plates full with some awesome games releasing this month, But I’m pretty sure that there would always be room for desert.
An interesting post from the Lost Garden on Why indie games are good for fans :) No, not how to become a fan but looking for the true heros behind all those awesome games. I’m pretty sure that these links were going around for some time now, but as developers and gamers you should really read these two blogposts and their comments from Wolfire, the first post about Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX and a second follow up post titled Direct vs. OpenGL revisited. Enjoy.
Old post kicked up; I once came upon a post not too long ago from Emanuele Feronato on his blog about 35+ Game portals that can give your game at least 100k views. I remembered that I had asked myself to remind myself to remind everyone about this post when I once read it. So now that I remember, I’m telling you, so go check it out :D and of course, don’t forget to read the comments on that post as well :)
There are times, when some event passes by without you knowing about it, and later on, when you find out about it, you really wish that someone had told you about it! well, with eventsforgamers you won’t have to worry! Events For Gamers or E4G for short is a website dedicated to give you upto date information on events related to games and the game development industry.
Games today; If you like to drill and dig, (or even if you don’t) try out this little game down at Kongregate called MegaDrill! Its very nice! Or if you feel like racing Chariots, check this out :P As @photonstorm promised, here is a really neat retro game they actually created for a range of vinyl toys called Droplets.
After you’ve done playing, check out some of these awesome previews at TIGSource as well..
I will come back to you tomorrow with more news and happenings from the indie game world, this is me, Yadu Rajiv saying Good night.. erm.. or is it Good Morning..
[originally posted on gamecron at InGDIn]
gamecron – from interviews, more contests, prizes, history to news and back
Feb/101
Yet another day, more news and more interesting things to share. I hope all you got a chance to play Today I die. So today, Catch an interview with Daniel Benmerg, the creator of the game at GameSetWatch.
Mochimedia and SPIL are along with others are throwing a game development contest with a lot of nice prices. There would be five winners and the last date for the contest is April 30th 2010.
When you look at the past, you see that its quite an amazing array of people who have shaped the electronic and entertainment industry through their will, sprit and ideas to what it is today. So take a look at the people, events and companies that shaped the industry through a videogame history timeline. More information here.
Speaking of History, Here is a Google tech talk by Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and the man who sold the game. From Atari, Pong, Chuck E. Cheese, He talks about how and where he sees opportunities, from needs to sci fi and the future of games and a lot more. So do check it out.
One more bit of news before I go, @photonstorm said that he would be releasing a new game tomorrow! :D How awesome is that, so keep a watch on him and the website for more updates :) If you are into making games in flash, he has a nice Open Source game framework out there you might want to take a look at too.
Sorry to cut short on today’s post, Do come back for more updates on what’s going on tomorrow.
