As I was walking to the cafe today I walked by a guy with scabs all over his face who was blankly staring off into the void. He's obviously wasting away on some nasty substance. A lady was trying to give him a few dollars but he didn't even acknowledge her. I'm so thankful I'm not that guy. If there was a big red button [...]
A few indie developers have been talking about the indie bubble and how it's going to burst. The indie bubble is the large influx of developers moving into the independent game space, all of those developers releasing games, trying to get press for said games, and trying to make money. A lot of people are going indie simply due to the ease of being able [...]
This is a quick tutorial designed to teach you how to tile an image in photoshop. Before learning this easy method I would cut/paste a piece of my image until it filled the screen. That was such a waste of time. After you learn this trick it'll literally take you 16 seconds to tile an image in the future. You want to turn this: into this: [...]
My new game, "A Spire To The Gods" has been entered into the IGF. There are over 600 IGF Games this year, so good luck going through ALL of them. A Spire To The Gods is a tile-based dungeon crawler with Minesweeper elements. It's basically a mix between Diablo and Minesweeper. You tap on tiles to reveal what's underneath which could be Lots of Loot [...]
Here are the iOS device statistics for 3 of my games. I've included both the device info and firmware versions (AKA the iOS version). WarGames: WOPR has both 3 months and 1 month of data, the others just have 1 month. The 3 months of data are from 05/15/2013 to 08/15/2013 and the 1 month data is from 07/15/2013 to 08/15/2013. All this data was gathered [...]
You can now listen to some of the Be-Rad music tracks on SoundCloud and BandCamp. The BandCamp link currently only has the WarGames: WOPR tracks and they're available to download if you pay at least $2. The SoundCloud page has the WarGames music, the Lame Castle theme, and a couple tracks I made a looooong time ago for a prototype and tetris clone that I [...]