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Byron AtkinsonJones's Blog
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Byron Atkinson-Jones is a coder and Director of Xiotex Studios Ltd an indie game company. He has been developing games for over 13 years and coding for over 28 years, having cut his teeth on writing demos for the Commodore 64 and Amiga. Byron is a generalist and has a burning passion to try all aspects of game development and as such has been both a coder and producer. His hobbies are small game development, art and composing music. You can follow Byron on twitter via @Xiotex and of course the website www.xiotexstudios.com.
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Expert Blogs
Call for Entries - GDC Plane Jam 2013!  |
| Posted by Byron AtkinsonJones on Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:37:00 EST in
Indie,
Design
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| Are you going to GDC 2013? Are you going to be sitting on a flight patiently waiting for it to get to SF? If so, if you have the guts - join us in Plane Jam and make a game during your flight. |
| Read More... | 7 Comments |
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Can you mainline Kickstarter? |
| Posted by Byron AtkinsonJones on Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:10:00 EST in
Business/Marketing,
Indie
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| What nobody tells you about doing a Kickstarter campaign is that watching the progress of it is like a drug. |
| Read More... | 0 Comments |
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Hard choice |
| Posted by Byron AtkinsonJones on Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:01:00 EST in
Indie,
Production
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| Should I spend money going to GDC this year or spend that money finishing my latest game? |
| Read More... | 5 Comments |
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Indies, we aren’t in competition with each other, no, really… |
| Posted by Byron AtkinsonJones on Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:11:00 EST in
Indie,
Business/Marketing
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| There's a lot that Indie developers can do to help each other out with selling games. To do that though we have to break through this illusionary barrier that we are in competition with each other. |
| Read More... | 3 Comments |
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Who controls the App Store? |
| Posted by Byron AtkinsonJones on Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:53:00 EDT in
Smartphone/Tablet,
Business/Marketing
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| Who really controls the App Store? An opinion piece about the recent changes to the iOS developer terms and conditions that could possibly have a large impact on the way that indie developers thrive on the App Store. |
| Read More... | 5 Comments |
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Boardtastic - project planning with post-it notes |
| Posted by Byron AtkinsonJones on Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:51:00 EDT in
Production,
Indie
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| Quite a few of the dev studios I have worked at moved to agile based project planning and used post-it notes on boards to show progress and track tasks. I wanted to be able to do this but remotely and so Boardtastic.com was born. |
| Read More... | 1 Comments |
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Byron AtkinsonJones's Comments
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Comment In: Call for Entries - GDC Plane Jam 2013! [Blog - 02/12/2013 - 08:37]
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We are organising it all ... We are organising it all here: http://xiotex-studios.com/planeJam.html sign up in the forums. |
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Comment In: Who controls the App Store? [Blog - 10/02/2012 - 07:53]
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Nice article. r n r ... Nice article. r n r nHere 's an interesting question: What constitutes manipulation of charts In the past this used to bogus companies offering to boost App Store ratings, leaving reviews etc.. but promoting Apps by featuring it in your own App, be that through a 'Free App A Day ... |
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Comment In: Nintendo: We Should Have Explained Wii U Better [News - 06/10/2011 - 05:20]
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My wife watching the press ... My wife watching the press conference and commented that she thought they would be releasing a new console instead of just a new controller, so yeah, you kind of let the ball drop there Nintendo. |
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Comment In: Opinion: My Producer Hates Me [News - 05/23/2011 - 04:23]
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I must admit I prefer ... I must admit I prefer small teams and when it comes to choosing where to work next my preference does sway it that way. Having said that I have worked in some pretty massive teams in terms of being on of the team and leading them. As for guessing, yeah, ... |
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Comment In: Molehill Programming Tutorial [Blog - 11/18/2010 - 02:38]
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Looking forward to playing with ... Looking forward to playing with Molehill even if it's for 2D games only since it should finally give us the real hardware acceleration we have been calling for. |
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