I’ve been really surprised (and thrilled) by the response to Ruins since I released it about 3 weeks ago. It was written about by Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Popmatters, Boing-Boing, PCGamer, IndieGamesChannel, IndieGames.com and Nightmare Mode, as well as some really nice posts by game developers I greatly respect: Robert Yang and Bredon Clay. I [...]

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‘A House in California’ is one of 8 finalists for the Nuovo Award at the 2011 Independent Games Festival! The Nuovo award is a category of the IGF designed to “honor abstract, shortform, and unconventional game development which advances the medium and the way we think about games.” I’m totally thrilled to have [...]

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Pictured: MONSTER PARTY by Dessgeega (detail)

Last night I participated in a two-hour game jam called “Themed Trainwreck Thursdays,” hosted by Glorious Trainwrecks. Glorious Trainwrecks is an online community/wiki/forum for game developers, with the stated goal of “bringing back a time when you didn’t care so much about ‘production values.’” The hallmarks of their [...]

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