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Comment In: Sega throws in lot with Ouya, brings Sonic 4 to the platform [News - 06/05/2013 - 11:46]

Yes and no. Most of ...

Yes and no. Most of the lag was actually caused on the developer side. One of the early Unity plugins had terrible lag like 0.5s and some games and apps that haven 't been updated still suffer from it. r n r nThere are also some poor quality ports from ...

Comment In: The Perfect Console for Indies [Blog - 06/04/2013 - 12:46]

Coming from a background of ...

Coming from a background of making games for mobile, and now on the OUYA, most of the things you describe are like Well, duh, it 's always been like that. Why would it be any other way r n r nI think the software side of things has already been ...

Comment In: BazaarBot: An Open-Source Economics Engine [Blog - 06/03/2013 - 09:15]

Time to remake transport tycoon ...

Time to remake transport tycoon r n r nThis actually would have been perfect for a game I was making a while back now sadly abandoned / put to one side . But this sort of engine could be perfect for simulating supply and demand for the economy and trade ...

Comment In: Characters and Worldbuilding: Analyzing the Strength of Japanese Games [Feature - 05/31/2013 - 04:00]

I know certainly for some ...

I know certainly for some novel writers, they will create vast internally consistent worlds, of which only a fraction of that creation ends up in the story. It definitely helps that sense of a deeper world, that goes beyond just what we see, to come naturally to both author and ...

Comment In: Words and Feelings: Thoughts on PR for Indie Developers [Blog - 05/28/2013 - 06:45]

Thanks Some food for thought ...

Thanks Some food for thought since I 'm finding myself increasingly coming into contact with the media

Comment In: E3 and the start of an unprecedented generation [News - 05/28/2013 - 04:13]

@Benjamin r n r nThe ...

@Benjamin r n r nThe problem is the underlying sentiment is not how you describe. r n r nI 've not been to E3, so I 'm only commenting from afar, but the practice demonstrates a number of obvious weaknesses within the industry. It 's not easy to change these ...

Comment In: Party's almost over for GameStop's used games business [News - 05/28/2013 - 01:18]

Excuse my ignorance, but what ...

Excuse my ignorance, but what is to stop AAA games being released purely on digital download How many sales would that game lose by not being available in shops

Comment In: Indie vs Retail [Blog - 05/21/2013 - 07:22]

Heh, Solicitation has a very ...

Heh, Solicitation has a very different meaning here in the UK both legally and general parlance . The plan was approved by the higher ups in GAME before I was given permission to do this. r n r nThing is, what I was doing directly helped GAME get more OUYA ...

Comment In: Unity's mobile licenses are now free [News - 05/21/2013 - 05:07]

I hope this includes OUYA ...

I hope this includes OUYA as well since it 's based on Android

Comment In: Crazy idea: how about we give multiplayer back to humans [Blog - 04/22/2013 - 12:45]

I 'm making a local ...

I 'm making a local multiplayer game for console at the moment, but approaching it from a rather different angle. I 'm taking inspiration from board games, the mechanics of which are usually designed around player to player interaction and putting inter-player relationships at the core of the game. I ...

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