Reporting From E3
June 17th, 2010
As some of you may have heard, I've been hanging out at E3 this week. My week started out a little rocky when I was road-tripping to LA with a friend on Monday and 3 hours into our drive from San Francisco, our car lost oil pressure and blew a rod. My friend was able to coast us into ...
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 ...
Indie Game: The Movie
May 20th, 2010
A new documentary called Indie Game: The Movie has just been announced with the goal of providing an inside look at the art and craft of making indie games. The production team, BlinkWorks, has announced that it plans to travel around North America filming the major characters on the indie gaming scene. I'm completely blown away by the production ...
The Humble Indie Bundle
May 4th, 2010
Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle! This is an awesome pay-what-you-want indie video game / charity promotion that we are trying out. Please watch this video to find out what it's all about, or read on! The Humble Indie Bundle Pay What You Want Basically we're taking 5 classic indie games: World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD and Penumbra ...
The Wright Stuff
April 7th, 2010
Tonight we had the great honor to hear Will Wright, one of our favorite game designers, speak in Berkeley. He gave the room a lightning fast summary of his entire game development career and answered a number of questions. Here is a summary of the interesting takeaways we can remember. Will Wright and John Despite his huge success he is ...
Overgrowth Interviewed in Strana Igr (Gameland)
March 21st, 2010
You might have seen the interview on RPS that Alec Meer featured yesterday with Aubrey and me. That was totally awesome and we are very thankful to the RPS guys for giving indies like us a voice. However, I wanted to draw your attention to another interview that won't be as accessible because it's only going to be ...