As most of you (or none of you) know, we are planning to aggregate a ton of news and blogs related to gamedev, indie games, and games in general so that you have all that goodness in one place ~ Which will make my job easier, since I really can just go on ranting..
As I surfed the interweb and pretended to work all day(no, my boss doesn’t read my blog) I bumped into an article by David Perry called Game Design: A Brainstorming Toolbox – Game Worlds, which was an excerpt from his similarly sounding new book. The excerpt focuses on game worlds, and the author goes on to dissect game worlds, explaining design mechanics and onto what drives awesome designs in general. If you feel like reading, go check it out
I was going to give you a run-down on all the 2010 IGF Student Showcase Winners, but since I ran out off time today and am spilling on to the next day, this will have to wait. But do check out the winners, I assure you that you won’t be disappointed :)
If you love strategy games and the like, I’m pretty sure you have come across Sid Meier’s Civilization.. and if you have dug deep looking for more awesome games like Civ, you might have heard about this really awesome Open Source Game Project called Freeciv! Freeciv is a multiplayer, turn-based strategy game very similar to Civilization II. Freeciv has been around for almost thirteen years now, so what’s new? Now you can play it in your browser! That’s right, login with your id, make a new one or use your facebook account to connect and play Freeciv alone or with others online through your browser. Check out http://www.freeciv.net for the prototype and take a look at the project on Google Code.
I can’t help but lament, is Streets of Mumbai ever coming out? Lets all send a mail and ask the people at Trine Games about what’s going on over there. I wonder when they will realize that the IP they are sitting on will sell like hot cakes unlike Yoga on the wii.
Speaking of games from India, I found two brothers, Pallav and Gaurav Nawani, based out of Dehradun who founded a company called Ironcode back in 2003 and has been making games ever since.. Short and sweet eh? Well yes, and so are some of their games. While I didn’t focus on their previous releases, what really caught my eye was this point and click adventure called Pahelika. The game instantly reminded me of other games in the same genre like Scratches or Dracula Origin. This is an interesting game with a very Indian back story to boot; yes, it might have its kinks and loose ends, but it tries to do things really nicely as well. Take some time to check out the Video, download and play the small demo of the game as well. You can read an interview with the brother’s regarding the development of Pahelika and about work at Ironcode here in an interview with gamezebo.com.
That’s it for the time being, Hope to catch you all soon with more interesting stuff form out there!
Oh.. On a side not, do check out the thread where you can add links to your favourite developer, journo or artist talking about games(indie) in general. I’ve added some to get the list going, but feel free to drop more and we will get them all aggregated at one place so I possibly can stop writing and actually make some games. Yesh!! with that thought in mind, off I go yet again, hoping to give you more thoughts and what nots on games and gaming and anything else I remotely care about.
On yet another side not further down, go watch some Zero Punctuation ppl!
