John's development environment
February 7th, 2010
Last month, we put a call out on the blog asking for community questions to answer. We promised to answer the questions with the most "Likes" in the comments. It got pushed into the background by the success of the organic indie preorder pack but the most popular question, with 62 "Likes" (a Wolfire Blog record) was from Liam Rudel ...
Oh no, more Meebo!
February 6th, 2010
Our live chat widget proved its worth again during the preorder pack promotion. At times I seemed like I was giving support to ten people at once. In other practical live chat news, we had a visitor from NBC who wanted us to sign a release to allow Black Shades to become a featured prop for an episode of Mercy ...
Web applications on the iPad
January 28th, 2010
Today, Apple announced the new iPad and humbly claimed that there will be a "gold rush" of native apps for the App Store. Sure, but what I find more interesting is that Apple also ironically created the most promising open web app platform, which may eventually undermine the App Store itself. Everything shown in the keynote looked great (imagine playing ...
Visiting Anton at Skywalker Ranch
January 21st, 2010
Anton Riehl, who has provided us with the amazing live flute performances for Mikko Tarmia's Overgrowth Soundtrack, invited us to visit him at the Skywalker Ranch yesterday. For those that don't know, Skywalker Ranch is George Lucas' giant private resort/workshop. From left to right: Anton, Aubrey, John, Pink Beard I think there is an implicit NDA that ...
Mikko on game music composition
January 11th, 2010
This is a post from Mikko Tarmia who is the composer for all of Overgrowth's music, about the process of making music for Overgrowth (and games in general). On game project length Being involved in a game project requires lots of patience because it can take years for a project to finish. For example, I've been writing songs ...
Organic Indie Preorder Pack FAQ
January 7th, 2010
We had a really crazy launch this morning of The Organic Indie Preorder Pack. It's hard to believe that there are still six days left! We've been inundated with support questions, so to help clear some up, we wrote the the OIPP FAQ! Q: You guys are awesome but I am totally faithful to Steam! I will only ...
Phil Carlisle on AI in Overgrowth
January 4th, 2010
This is a guest post from Phil Carlisle, best known for his work on the Worms series. He appears from time to time in Wolfire IRC and I finally coaxed him into writing a guest blog post! He will introduce himself below. I was talking to a few people on the Wolfire IRC channel the other day about potential for ...