Updated website!
Finally gotten round to updating the website as you’ll no doubt notice. There is no splash page now, it just goes straight to the blog with sidebar links to books, games and the forum....
Tony Cooper Blog
Indie games are all the same?
Just a quick post to say I am still alive! Been busy with my daytime work and writing my novel and have neglected this blog unfortunately. Thankfully other people have been keeping theirs more...
I’ve just come back from the IndieCity*
Recently, Blitz Games launched IndieCity, a publishing service for independently developed games. Having heard how difficult and random it is to get your games on Steam I thought I’d take a look at what...
New crowdfunding initiative for indie devs from Desura
Well this is interesting. Desura, the indie/Mod digital download website from the guys behind MODDB have started up what they are calling an Alphafunding initiative. It will act in a similar way to Kickstarter...
Short stories on Smashwords
As an update to my previous post, ‘Making Gods‘ is now on Smashwords and it’s FREE! If you go there you can browse and buy books in multiple formats (for iPhone/iPad, Android, PC, Palm,...
Short stories published
Well my short story collection is up on the Kindle Store. I’m not expecting any sales at all to be honest, it was done more as a ‘proof of concept’ to be sure I...
Short stories coming to Kindle
I don’t just do games you know! I’m currently prepping a short story collection to self-publish on the Amazon Kindle Store. It will contain three stories (two modern fantasy, one science fiction) of about...
UDK Royalty limit increased!
Apparently Epic have revised upwards the minimum number of sales a title must make before you start paying them royalties. Was $5000, now it’s $50,000. Which means my previous post about UDK is somewhat...
World of Love – 28th Jan – nobody told me!
As you can see from this post I went to the World of Love indie conference last year. I couldn’t wait for the next one same time the following year, and it looks like...
Weapon of choice
I’ve decided which engine/editor I’m going to use to make my first games. I’s called Construct, a free open-source 2D game creator and it’s by the guys at Scirra. I compared it with GameMaker...