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 3000 words each for just 99p.…
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 redundant in terms of the royalties…
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 neither could they, as there is…
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 8 from YoYoGames, a very similar…
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It’s a lovely world
I was at the World of Love indie games conference last Friday (25th June) and I have a head full of ideas and thoughts and comments ready to spill out when they are slightly more fully formed than now. However, a…
E3 thoughts so far
Bombarded. And pleasantly confused. Like an old man at a Playboy hottub party who can’t remember his name. That’s my overall feeling seeing the all the news, videos and screenshots being disgorged from the overstuffed bowels of E3. Lots of…
It looks really nice
I got myself a PS3 Slim a few weeks back (yeah I know, I’m always at the head of technology) along with copies of Uncharted 2 and Heavy Rain. Not played that much of the latter so far, mostly because…
Piracy by the bundle
I’m sure all of you bought the Humble Indie Bundle last week (if not, shame :), and it’s still on sale!), which raised over $1million for charity, indie developers and the EFF. It was a very successful experiment in both…
Some links you may like
Nothing deep or meaningful to say in this post really, just wanted to bring some useful website to your attention: The first is RockPaperShotgun – a PC games blog run by several well-respected games writers. Always fun, and always finding…
Indies think big! Small.
I know we’ve all been battered over the head by developers (large and independant) telling us that the best way to start making games is to start small, but don’t you just want to launch into that massive genre-defining RPG…