Adding a health bar to Lugaru
June 21st, 2010
This is a guest blog post from MCMic, a new regular in the Wolfire IRC channel. I asked him to share some thoughts on the blog because he added one of the first new features to Lugaru since it went open-source: the oft-requested health bar. Read on for his introduction: Hi, I'm MCMic. I'm a French student in ...
Hosting the Humble Indie Bundle on App Engine
June 20th, 2010
Over the past year, I have invited a number of people to write guest blog posts on the Wolfire Blog (and would love to have more, contact us) -- but now the tables have turned and I was invited to write a post for someone else: The official Google App Engine blog! Yes, a screenshot of a web page. Click to ...
Thoughts on OnLive
June 18th, 2010
Today OnLive officially launched. If you haven't heard of it, OnLive is an ambitious new gaming service with a unique proposition: instead of downloading and running games traditionally on your computer, you run the games on their remote data centers and they stream the audiovisual output to your computer. Regardless of whether or not it works in your area ...
Early Gish hacking
June 5th, 2010
Shortly after Alex Austin released Gish's source code, Gish got its first new public feature courtesy of FrozenCow. I find these "zero day open source contributions" really interesting. It reminds me of the immediate rush to crack DRM or to exploit a newly disclosed vulnerability, but this is unequivocally awesome, feels good, and is only motivated by positively helping ...
Activision Indie Games Competition
June 4th, 2010
You may have heard that Activision is hosting an independent games competition, like a much higher stakes version of the Independent Games Festival. We've been getting messages from fans about it, encouraging us to enter. However, after reading the finalized terms, this seems to be an entirely different kind of competition: an indie game / business plan jam to create ...
Aquaria goes open source!
June 3rd, 2010
Aquaria has gone open source under the GPL! Now all four of the games that pledged to open in the Humble Indie Bundle are officially open source -- the others are Lugaru, Gish, and Penumbra Overture. I am especially excited about the modding possibilities for Aquaria because of its excellent level editing tools. Here's a video showing an early version ...
Gish goes open-source
May 30th, 2010
As promised in the Humble Indie Bundle, the classic indie game starring your favorite 12-pound ball of tar, has now had its secret sauce released under the GNU General Public License. Ever wonder how Gish's famously fluid physics system was put together? Well now you can take a look for yourself. Alex Austin has just made the source code ...