The Star Wars Galaxies servers have officially been shut off in preparation for the massive launch of The Old Republic. I did QA on Galaxies for over a year from 2004-2005 and have some fond memories of the game. Actually, I wouldn't even call it a game, but I WOULD call it a virtual world with plenty of dancing, blasters, and the occasional lightsaber. My [...]
When I first saw the headline saying Steve Jobs had died I was shocked, and immediately hoped it was a joke. A really awful joke. I had the same thought as when I can't find my keys or cell phone, just hoping that someone's playing a trick on me and they'll pop out at any moment to make things right. But no, it wasn't a [...]
Be-Rad Entertainment is officially headed to PAX East 2011 to let the world play our new unannounced game. How can someone play an unannounced game you ask? It's simple, you announce it! Or really you let the publisher announce it. Stay tuned in the next couple of weeks for, uh, the announcement. I'm really stoked to be a part of what's going on, and to [...]
The sweet music of Lame Castle is now available for free, right here, right now. It was made by Alex Vaughan who also did all the sounds for the game. During development of Lame Castle I had to listen to this song over and over and ooooooover again and I must say I never grew tired of it. That means it's great. The Speed Of [...]
As far as Lame Castle goes the app store is proving to be way way better in terms of exposure and sales compared to the Android market. LC isn't doing record breaking sales, but the first 3.5 days have seen roughly 350 downloads compared to just under 300 for Android (minus returns) during a much longer time period. Apple has a bigger market share and [...]
Lame Castle won't show up for everyone in the Android Market. It was built using Unity3d and since the Android license is a recent addition for Unity it's apparently incompatible with some phones. If it's incompatible it just won't appear in the android market for you. Sorry! You can still play Lame Castle on the web. As soon as I figure out a safe way [...]