Archive for the ‘Indie’ Category
Austria Game Jam 2012
This year the third Austria Game Jam took place at the St. Marx Media Quarter in Vienna. In the last two years I couldn’t attend due to an unfortunate date collision of the game jam and the GFG, a small but high-quality game dev conference held in Hannover, Germany. Unfortunately, it didn’t take place this year. When I was approached by Jürgen Musil, one of the AGJ organizers, if I wanted to…
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Tags: austria game jam, game dev, global game jam, jürgen musil, leap of faith, paper prototype, vienna
Machinarium
Even though the new family member (PS®3) combined with the new games (The Beatles™ Rockband™, Little Big Planet™ and Arkham Asylum™) keeps me quite occupied and highly entertained I have not forgotten my passion for smaller adventures and indie games.
Ages ago I stumbled over the game Samorost and …
Filed under: Consoles, Design, game, Indie, Mac, PC, PS3 | 3 Comments
Tags: adventure, amanita design, arkham asylum, console, linux, little big planet, Mac, PC, point and click, PS3, rockband, samorost, samorost 2
1st Game Designer Get Together
Yesterday, the first get together for local game designers took place. We decided to kick off at the werkzeugH in Vienna.
Filed under: Board Games, Design, Game Design, Game Design Get Together, Indie, iPhone, mobile, PC | 2 Comments
Tags: Board Games, challenges, christmas, console, creativity, events, experience-base, game designers, game jams, get together, holidays, ideas, kick off, knowledgebase, meeting, party, PC, project, vacation, vienna, werkzeugH
Rolando for the iPhone
The fun begins December 18, 2008! – Rolando for the iPhone and “shocking” news about Coke.
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Tags: accelerometer, cephalopods, chtulhu, coca cola, coke, contraceptive, dynamic, intuitive, iPhone, lovecraft, lovecraftian, mythos, narration, rolando, system, touchscreen
If you can play it – make it!
Playing a game, enjoying a game and finding flaws in a game doesn’t necessarily mean that this enables someone to do it better, in the end.
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Tags: appearance, casual, creative, Design, Experimental, games, Indie, innovative, mechanics
