I want to talk about about why cutscenes need to die. Once upon a time, I would play games and look forward to the cutscenes. I fondly remember playing Starcraft and watching the cinematics with great anticipation. Actually, that’s the last time I remember really enjoying watching cutscenes. Interestingly enough, Starcraft came out shortly after…
On Sept 9th, Kickstarter began officially supporting Canadian kickstarter campaigns. As expected, a wave of Canadian Kickstarter campaigns followed, including a few by friends of mine. I love my friends, and I’ve always said: “If you kickstart something, I’ll back it.” as a universal rule. Making something on your own is one of the…
You know that old trope in cartoons, where a character has a devil or angel on their shoulder who criticizes their every decision? I have one of these on my shoulder. I have an Invisible Alec Holowka. For those who don’t know, Alec is a long-time indie developer. He is the co-creator of Aquaria, host of…
Last week I did a little survey on Facebook and Twitter (thanks to everyone for the RT’s) asking game developers to pick 3 games from the current generation (last 8 years) that they feel are “Must Play” games for other developers. There are a lot of great games out there and it’s easy to miss…
Three years ago I launched my first indie game: a high speed platformer made in Flash called Ray Ardent: Science Ninja. It was well received, landing on the front page of Armor Games, Kongregate, New Grounds and many other portals. It’s been played over 3 million times. I think it’s a pretty shitty game. It…
About a couple of months before Brian Provinciano’s Full Indie Summit, Brian asked me if there were any talks I wanted to do. I thought about redoing my GDC talk (Shellrazer – Designing In App Purchase Without Losing Your Soul), but honestly, it was so close to GDC, I was a little burnt out on…
It’s been a long time, for that I apologize. The past 8 months have been great! Shellrazer has launched for Android on Google Play and has been given an amazing content update. I’m continuing to work with the gang at Slick Entertainment on some new ideas and we’re having a blast. I’m also working on…
Shellrazer, the game I collaborated on with Slick Entertainment and Maple Syrup Sound, launched a week ago today. The launch has gone great. Over the weekend, on the Paid App charts, we hit #2 in Canada, #3 in Australia and #8 in the USA. We also did great in France, Germany and many other countries.…
I’m putting on a huge sale of Ninja Robot Dinosaur t-shirts until June 2nd. All t-shirts, all designs in all sizes are $9.99. As I’ve never put the shirts on sale before, you might be wondering why I’m doing this now? Back in university (a long, long time ago), a friend of mine, also named…
