Make Mac Games

GBGames has a nice introduction to object oriented design for game development. GB does a nice job of summarizing some basic concepts that can be incredibly powerful for simplifying your object model as well as future-proofing your design. I’ve used these techniques extensively for application development in my day job as a C# developer. As [...]

All coding for the next Bullfrog release is done. I’ve been testing it on my two PPC machines. My primary development box, a Dual 2.0GHz G5 PowerMac and an 800MHz G4 Titanium PowerBook. What I need is someone with an Intel Mac to help make sure the Universal Binary build works on their machine. This [...]

Peter Cohen of MacWorld Magazine writes in his The Game Room column: Support original Mac game developers. It’s nice to see MacWorld push this point of view. I hope it helps.

For the past year or so I’ve been organically growing my RSS feed collection with a focus towards what other indie game developers have to say. My collection has grown to a pretty good size including game industry veterans and stalwarts to first-time designers and rookies. There is a lot to read, and many to [...]

Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel (Avernum, Geneforge) describes his View From the Bottom of the game industry over on RPG Vault. Or what Joe Indie calls the “anti-Pavlina” view of game development. What is the moral of this? The game industry is a highly competitive, scary place. It’s not hopeless, but it’s a tough road. And [...]