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Giving indie developers a boost

ARTICLES

  • How To Use And Abuse The Gaming Press...

  • 15/06/2010

    ...And How The Gaming Press Wants To Use and Abuse You.This is a superb article by UK gaming press veteran Kieron Gillen.

  • Gamezebo article on casual pricepoints

  • 15/06/2010

    Where have all the good games gone?http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=GameZebo ran a great article at the start of the month discussing the changing market for casual games:"Over the past couple of months, it has become painfully clear to me and many of you at Gamezebo that the quality and quantity of download games is dropping.

  • Free GDC Vault Indie Articles

  • 14/06/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=The various Game Developers Conference events that take place each year are a source of great articles and discussions about all aspects of game design and production.

  • DIYGamer: Where Indie Ends, Mainstream Begins

  • 07/06/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=DIY Gamer posted a great article over the weekend about how the term Indie is defined and used."the definition of the term “indie” is a bit muddled and difficult to decipher.

  • Activision launches $175k Indie competition

  • 04/06/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=Activision has announced that they are running a competition to look for new, aspiring indie development talent.

  • We got nominated for a Develop Award!

  • 04/06/2010

    We've just found out that we've been nominated for a 'Business Development' award at the prestigious Develop Awards that will be taking place in Brighton this summer.

  • Make 'em Up - Game Development Competition

  • 02/06/2010

    Game developer Turborilla have launched a new game development competition called "Make 'em Up' - we've got no idea if it will be any good, but we thought we'd tell you about it anyway!Looks like they're offering 65,000 Euros for a 50/50 split on the game.

  • DRM: The Programmers View

  • 01/06/2010

    I stumbled across a great article on terminally incoherent over the weekend all about the 'evils' of Digital Rights Management from the prospective of a programmer:"I make my living as a software developer, and this confuses people when they hear me bashing DRM.

  • Self Publishing Lessons Learned

  • 28/05/2010

    GAMESbrief has a great series of articles from different developers about the lessons they have been learnt during the self publishing process.

  • Developer Stories: Airplay Adventures

  • 26/05/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=Mid-cycle.

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