I'm a game designer/programmer living in Melbourne, Australia. During the day I work at Wicked Witch Software developing console and handheld games. I spend my nights and weekends working on small scale indie games, including an iPhone game currently in development. What? Do I what? What is this "sleep" you talk of?
If you're interested in getting in contact with me, feel free to shoot me an email at jason.bakker@gmail.com .
This post covers my development team's first steps in making our iPhone game, describing the engines and APIs that are currently out there and the decision-making process that I went through in choosing which engine to go with.
This article outlines a Game Design Document template for independent developers, that's less focused on target markets and saleability and more on information that's actually useful in small-scale game development.
Interesting stuff. I'm working with some darker themes at the moment, and figuring out how to be engaging without necessarily being fun is going to be a major part of the next iteration. Also, couple of spelling/grammar mistakes in the article, missing a mentioned or something after Smith also regarding ...
I think the fail early, fail often mantra is around to create the situation that Ubisoft are currently in for Assassin's Creed II, where they have already made a game and know their failures and their successes. When you're not in a situation where you're basing your game off a ...
If you're into dark fantasy I'd suggest the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. It's a great dark fantasy series, and is the one that the Dragon Age developers actually mentioned as a big influence which was what initially got me interested in Dragon Age .
Good stuff, Enrique I'm kind of working through some similar issues to those mentioned - my game http://dfgame.wordpress.com doesn't yet have enough visual polish or an obvious gimmick, which makes me worried about actually getting the word out about it. I like the idea of featuring an interesting gameplay system ...
@Alan Thanks for your clarifying response - all said and done, I like the idea of a service that takes care of promoting my game with a fairly small taken, and when we get closer to release we'll probably be looking at Ngmoco as a potential partner in that.
