YouTube Beard Drive Update
November 5th, 2010
Two days ago we started a YouTube subscriber drive to coincide with the shaving of my 2-year development beard. I pledged that if we could get to 5,000 subscribers in two weeks, I would live stream the shaving of the beard. After only two days of the promotion we've already broken 5,000 and this video below is ...
The Beard Ultimatum
November 3rd, 2010
If you're new to Wolfire, you might not have heard about the scraggly undergrowth I've accumulated beneath my chin in honor of Overgrowth. When we were first starting work on Overgrowth, I made a vow not to shave my beard beard until the foundation of our game's combat system was implemented. Over the course of our development ...
The Last of the Meebohecans
October 28th, 2010
As you may have seen on Wolfire's contact page, we have historically run a live Meebo chat widget on our contact page to make it easier for visitors to the site to reach us. However, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the Meebo era (along with bad blog post title puns using the word ...
Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
July 27th, 2010
In the last day, a number of people have sent me this awesome link, so I figured I would post it here as well. It is an awesome mix of HTML5, game tech, and nostalgia: Joe Huckaby of Effect Games has created a neat HTML5 tool for rendering old school game backgrounds that use color cycling. For all of the ...
Aquaria ported to the PSP
June 30th, 2010
This is a guest blog post by Andrew Church. He is a talented software engineer and OSS aficionado based in Japan. Since the Aquaria source was released, Andrew has been busy hacking away on an unofficial PSP version. Read on for his story: After discovering (and being completely enthralled by) Aquaria via the Humble Indie Bundle, I was delighted to ...
Lugaru comes to the Amiga
June 27th, 2010
One of the awesome results of releasing the source code to Lugaru in the Humble Indie Bundle is that Lugaru now runs on AmigaOS 4 and AROS! An early AmigaOS 4 Lugaru build, courtesy of MickJT. If you're not familiar with the Amiga, make sure to read up on it on Wikipedia, and then read the AmigaOS 4 page ...
What do you want from Meebo?
June 23rd, 2010
As I mentioned earlier, I spent the past week with Anton in LA attending E3 and hanging out with other indie developers. Unfortunately, with all the commotion that was going on you might have noticed that I neglected some of my Wolfire Live Chat duties. However, it's been long enough (especially considering all the visitors from the Humble Indie ...