Benjamin is the founder of Inland Studios; an independent game company. He has dabbled in just about everything that has to do with gaming, from programmer to entrepreneur to writer. His love of all things pretty has taken him down a path of graphics programming and technology design.
A LONG look back at 2011, and how a $1 game became a universe that is imperfect and filled with strife. And how that journey was the release I needed to let go (for now) and enjoy being indie.
Not too surprising... I would have liked to play them if they were on PC or XB360. They looked like good games, but not 600 good after console games . Exclusives are nice from a development standpoint but it sucks to be in the sales department when you only have ...
@John they will likely close down that experiment or stop awarding points and just use it for random stuff like player stats and other useless bits of information : . As far as I know, the Rewards program has always been a form of Beta. I don't know if they've ...
I didn't explicitly mention it in the article but you can guess that this works with 2D games as well. Be aware however that if you design your gameplay for 480p be sure to use float based Vector2 instead of int as your position and velocity. You will need the ...
Dear Microsoft, Before you consider delivering gamification plugins how about you focus on the 1k known issues with Visual Studio and stop locking up my machine, crashing, or otherwise consuming all valued resources. I will happily reward YOU with an achievement if you manage to not release an IDE that ...
