Studio Profile: Ideomen
Interview with Liz Canacari Elizabeth “Liz” Canacari, Founder and Project Goddess at Ideomen, has over 10 years experience in the development of online and entertainment applications from both the...
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Interview With Peter Alau How did Digital Extremes get going? Digital Extremes was founded in 1993 to create shareware during the craze of the early ’90s. Epic Pinball was a 10-month project written...
View ArticleStudio Profile: Six to Start
Interview With Adrian Hon How did Six to Start get going? We started the company in fall 2007, a little after Dan and myself had left Mind Candy, where we’d been working on Perplex City. We had some...
View ArticleStudio Profile: Gas Powered Games
Interview With Chris Taylor How does Gas Powered Games generate game ideas? In the old days, ideas were much more random and usually came from an inspiration, a book, a movie or even another game....
View ArticleSTUDIO SPOTLIGHT: GAS POWERED GAMES
Interview With Chris Taylor How does Gas Powered Games generate game ideas? In the old days, ideas were much more random and usually came from an inspiration, a book, a movie or even another game....
View ArticleAussie Indies
By Ashley Zeldin By the time Luke Muscat was hired at Halfbrick four-and-a-half years ago, the independent studio already had carved out a niche doing contract work. “Whenever we completed a contract,...
View ArticleWicked Witch Tackles AFL Wii
By Daniel Visser Research and Development We had conducted research and development (R&D) on the Wii platform prior to winning the Wii AFL project. This is our usual method of development, as we...
View ArticlePractical Usability Setup for Mobile Device Testing
Our studio, Total Eclipse, is a small indie studio located in Thessaloniki, Greece. We have been making games since 2005, mostly for the desktop, and more recently for mobile devices. Even though we’re...
View ArticleThe New Musketeers: Structuring The 21st Century Video Game Development Company
Can a company thrive when it lives up to the ideal espoused by Cervantes in The Three Musketeers – all for one and one for all? Twenty years ago, a cover story in Bloomberg famously envisioned a world...
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