Killing "ShareThis"
January 2nd, 2010
For a long time, we've had a ShareThis widget embedded for each blog post, in the hopes that people would click on it and then share the post on one of 50+ different sharing services (del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, etc.). For a content producer, the idea of ShareThis is really appealing, and I had assumed it was a ...
Happy new year!
January 1st, 2010
Happy new year from San Francisco!
Happy holidays!
December 25th, 2009
Happy holidays from the Wolfire Team! View the original
Desura: a new digital distribution platform
December 17th, 2009
The awesome guys at ModDB just announced they are launching a new digital distribution platform called Desura. A lot of Steam competitors come and go, but Desura is definitely one that we are going to be heavily supporting. What is Desura? To understand Desura, you first should understand ModDB. ModDB is essentially a giant community-run site that tries to catalog ...
Hanging out with Unknown Worlds
December 13th, 2009
We spent this evening hanging out at Unknown Worlds' winter party. For those of you that don't know, they are a small development team making a sweet RTS FPS hybrid called Natural Selection 2. We first met them at the San Francisco Postmortems which they host every month and we have since been bouncing ideas off each other about ...
Last day in Lyon
December 10th, 2009
Today is our last day in Lyon. In a few hours we'll be boarding another Fokker 100 on our way back to San Francisco. Game Connection was an incredible experience and we're extremely grateful for the Level Up scholarship which allowed us to attend for free. At first, we were a little dubious of the value of Game ...
Bonjour from Lyon
December 7th, 2009
For those who don't already know, Jeff and I are in Lyon for the Game Connection conference, which is sort of "speed dating for game developers". We were selected for the "Level Up" scholarship, so we are able to attend for free! We've got some awesome meetings lined up with some pretty big names, so we are pretty ...