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Over the past couple of years, we’ve been blessed with some stunning indie games from Braid to World of Goo.
But not every great independently-produced game proves to be a success – which is why a new group aiming to give struggling developers a helping hand has been formed in Britain.
Indievision has been created by former programmer Robert Swan, who has worked for top development houses Kuju, Climax and Sony, and Richard Hill-Whittall, the founder of Icon Games. Read the full story »
Amateur programmers have been given a great opportunity. They can upload games to Microsoft’s Xbox Live network and earn money from their efforts. It’s a move that benefits many bedroom coders and something which harks back to halycon days of the 1980s when a bit of programming knowledge and a good idea would turn into a potential money spinner for the developer.
GAMES designers are today urging the Scottish parliament to help push through tax breaks for the videogame industry amid fears Ireland could be set to lure British talent overseas.
Nottingham is set to host an expanded indie gaming festival this week.
Indiecade Europe will return to the city for the third year as part of GameCity Squared.
It will showcase independently produced titles from across the …
With Beneath a Steel Sky last week and the release of Monkey Island in the Summer, there’s been something of a point-and-click adventure renaissance.
Were or are you still an avid player of Scrabulous, the word game application that took the social network, Facebook, by storm? If so, then you were one of thousands, nay hundreds of thousands, of people who were gripped by what was, in a sense, a rip-off of Scrabble.
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One of the most prolific and talented game creators on Facebook is a chappy called Kevin Owocki who has been providing more than a few extra reasons to log on the site.
But if you think Scrabulous is perhaps treading a fine copyright line, then Mr Owocki tends to not only cross it but reach the pavement on the other side.
When we watch films, we escape into a world of fantasy, becoming enthralled by the moving pictures, the blisteringly loud sound and the engrossing plots.
There’s something magical about the movies – it’s why we adore actors and directors and pay billions of pounds each year to watch their end results.
But just as much as we enjoy watching the blockbusters, we also find fun in making our own films.
Over the past couple of years, there has been a point-and-click adventure revival.
The iPhone is already blessed with the Secret of Monkey Island but now Revolution Software is getting in on the act with a …
Americans Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler, known collectively as 2D Boy, are former EA designers. They’ve broken away from EA, set themselves up as an independent developer and they’ve created a new game called World of Goo. It’s a physics based puzzle/construction game in which you attach balls of goo to each other. The game is going down well on the PC and the Wii – a brilliant success story for an indie developer.
Amateur programmers have been given a great opportunity. They can upload games to Microsoft’s Xbox Live network and earn money from their efforts. It’s a move that benefits many bedroom coders and something which harks back to halycon days of the 1980s when a bit of programming knowledge and a good idea would turn into a potential money spinner for the developer.
One of the most prolific and talented game creators on Facebook is a chappy called Kevin Owocki who has been providing more than a few extra reasons to log on the site.
But if you think Scrabulous is perhaps treading a fine copyright line, then Mr Owocki tends to not only cross it but reach the pavement on the other side.
Well you’ve come to the right place. Here you can add your own ads without cost.
Over the past couple of years, we’ve been blessed with some stunning indie games from Braid to World of Goo.
But not every great independently-produced game proves to be a success – which is why a …
With Beneath a Steel Sky last week and the release of Monkey Island in the Summer, there’s been something of a point-and-click adventure renaissance.
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