Mr. Phil Games

The DC chapter of IGDA is doing a Text Adventure gamejam this weekend at the Westwood college:http://sjklevine.com/igda_dc/textjam/I n...

Here's a small tech demo I've been working on.

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Jonathan Blow did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit Friday: I am Jonathan Blow, game development person; ask me stuff.I was specifically int...

The idea: - Make Many Games: Learn Many Things and Game A Week: Getting Experienced At FailureGame A Week: Facebook Group, subRedditLev...

Week 2Idea: Strategy game about screening army/infantry movements using Calvary (like Napoleon did.)What went right: Nothing really.Wha...

Adriel Wallick's wonderful post-mortem about her Game A Week experiment inspired me to try it out.Week 1Idea: How many games of pong ca...

Here's a wonderful webcomic about sustainable creativity by Stephen McCraine.

We often hear of Posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD, especially associated with combat veterans and difficulties they face returnin...

An extremely interesting article has been published in The New Yorker this week: THE OPEN-OFFICE TRAP I think this is a very important ...

Jonathan Blow of Braid fame gave interesting talks about making a new language to replace C/C++ specifically for making games.

I'm happy to report that the Greenlight page for Iron Roads went live last night!

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Exciting news!

This was my best GDC yet.

I went to PAX East!

I participated in the Global Game Jam this year.

This evening I worked on basic boiler plate stuff.

Updated 8/08/2013 Where to Start?

Futile is a framework that allows you to control rendering within Unity programmatically.

I highly recommend watching this video about adding "juiciness" to game design:

- **Date:** August 24th-27th 2012 - **Theme:** Evolution - **Duration:** 48 hours to create a game from scratch

**Theme:** Evolution

I first played "Small Worlds" by David Shute in 2009, and it won CGDC #6.

I added The Last Sleeper to my list of Kickstart projects today.

Here's another batch of interesting game project I've supporting on Kickstarter.

**Games I really liked**:

I've just finished Ludum Dare 23.

**Theme:** Tiny World

- Figured out how to drawn lines using sprites, Thank you to XNA wiki - Rail links between cities drawn - Added a bunch of cities: Spr...

One my achomplishments of the holidays was the sucessful launch of WAUUG or the Washington (DC) Area Unity3D Users Group.http://capitalg...

While working on Iron Roads today, I tried to use the custom font Radius (a free font from Urban Fonts.)

I was working with some code in a book today and could not figure out why a variable was giving me problems.

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I've added Venus Patrol to my stable of Kickstarter projects.

An interesting freeware project with an early America setting, funded on 8-Bit Funding.

I came across an interesting Kickstarter project today called Free RPG tileset for indie game developers.

If you want to help the victims of Irene start here: Network For Good: Hurricane Irene Hurricane Irene is causing a lot of stir.

Someone took Dr.

A collection of random links and observations:

I'm about half way through this weekend's Ludum Dare 21 (although the traffic level is really bad right now.)

Sick of fighting with Unity.

These are some thought provoking videos about the origin of art and creativity.

I didn't finish.

The XNA version of my game now surpasses the Unity version.

**Theme:** Escape

*Ludum Dare 20 game page.

It's going to be a hard Ludum Dare, because the theme is It's Dangerous to go Alone!

Ludum Dare 19 is right around the corner, so let's take a moment to review my Ludum Dare Career.LD #6 - Light and Darkness, 2005 Puzzle...

The film makers behind the Penny Arcade series are making a documentary about Minecraft (you've heard of Minecraft right!?!)