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The Apple Developer Connection just posted a new developer interview. This time they talk to Freeverse, developer of “WingNuts 2” and publisher of “Heroes of Might and Magic V“, “LineForm“, and “ComicLife“.

The 11-person team at Freeverse, Inc. might be small, but the company has scored big with the action arcade game Wingnuts [...]

GameProducer.net has published the past five years of sales stats for Chronic Logic’s game, Triptch.
It’s interesting to see the “self life” of this Tetris-like game over an extended timeframe.
The total sales numbers are pretty darn good for 3 weeks of development and $200 in art and sound expenses.

Apple has just listed my game, Bullfrog, as a Hot Pick and Featured Download.
More Details over on the company blog: Apple Hot Pick: Bullfrog

Chuck Arellano has some nice words to say about my Happy Birthday post.
It turns out that I’ve managed to help inspire him a bit to move forward with his own game development projects with a bit more energy.
To me it appears that he’s well on his way with some published source [...]

iDevGames.com has announced their next game development contest:
“21-Days Later: Carlosvision”

Carlosvision – The Concept
Since 1998, the Editor-in-Chief of iDevGames, Carlos Camacho, has been tirelessly promoting gaming on the Macintosh platform, as well through building a strong community of indie Mac game developers. He now invites the community to show appreciation for these efforts by re-creating [...]

Jeff Vogel, Spiderweb Softare (Avernum, Geneforge), shares more wisdom from his 10+ years of indie game development in View From the Bottom: Part 3. This time he discusses his experience with trying to innovate.

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 [...]

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 that’s [...]

I thought I would share this list of quotes I’ve collected that I like to read every now and again for inspiration:

“Make something people want.” — Paul Grahm
“Break, stretch, an rexamine all the rules.” — Unkown
“A good game is a series of interesting decisions. The decisions must be both frequent and meaningful.” — Sid Meier
“Explore [...]

If you haven’t heard by now, you may want to look into the OMG Contest over at iDevGames.com.

Contest Overview
The OMG (Original Mac Games) Cup is a new game programming contest established by iDevGames, in connection with Freeverse Software, to encourage unique Mac game development. iDevGames is proud to partner with the Mac platform’s leading game [...]