I'm an Indie game dev, designer, writer, aspiring game artist and one half of Super Smith Bros with my bro Graham (coder & artist). Developer of Windows Phone & Xbox Live Indie Game Obsessive Collecting Disorder. We're currently working on Windows Phone game Drawtopia which we hope to release in June. I also write reviews & news for XboxRamble.com and teach game design.
I play a pethora of game genres with RPG's probably my most favoured, Minecraft and Pokemon not so much, as in never although Minecraft's design genius is undeniable. Like many gamers in their thirties I've been playing games since the ZX Spectrum/ NES days & I still dig the hardcore difficulty lacking in so many modern titles.
You can find me on Twitter @SuperSmithBros & my bro @HypedHamster as well as on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SuperSmithBros
Obsessive Collecting Disorder: A Post Mortem of our first game release (XBLIG & Windows Phone). Written on 25 October 2012 for SuperSmithBros.com (site isn't quite finished yet).
What 's been said so far seems spot on, the breadth of experience you have is indeed important but an employer wants to see focus in terms of your skill set not such a scattershot approach. Developers/ publishers don 't need an everyman they require a person to do that ...
Thanks Josh, I haven 't worked in the triple A side of the industry so it 's great to to hear from someone that has that some of the bigger studios are allowing for smaller more indie like teams. Just like with films I think many triple A games suffer ...
A wonderfully practical guide to indie development Tom My bro I released our 1st game on XBLIG last year with no prior development experience it did okay, we didn 't overtly think of or know 'the market ' beyond playtest feedback. Released on Windows Phone it 's now at 250 ...
A wonderfully positive XNA article Nathan My bro I Super Smith Bros only really started using XNA a few years ago for our first foray into game development without it we wouldn 't have released our first game or even begun this whole Indie thing with a view to becoming ...
To me this is exactly the same as a politician who lays blame on a particluar game for copycat violence yet when questioned about its content has only seen a few screenshots if that. You absolutely cannot pass judgement over a game if you haven 't at least played it ...
I always love reading about Indie devs previous projects and their continuing game development. It 's also great to see that despite many of your earlier games not hitting the heights as it where you knuckled down and carried on regardless, eventually to Power Up. The mixture of concept art, ...
