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Of course you do! And there’s a new contest out there that will allow you to do just that! Win money!
(are you convinced that you need to win money yet?)
What’s even better is that it’s being hosted by Intel. Now, Intel is advertising that you could win money, a powerful pc or some really cool development tools, so why not give it a try?
All you have to do is send in a game demo that you have created and they’ll sit around, check out the demo, do some backflips and then boogie on down to …read more

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No, not ho, ho… but… ho ho ho. Like Santa. I would never call you a ho. I’d call Howdy Doody a ho, though. Puppets scare me.
Anyways, I’m just flew in from my adventure in Utah and boy are my arms tired! HAH HAH!
Oh wait, that was always a lame joke.
Please forget I ever said anything.
I had a lot of fun on my vacation and I had a lot of work to catch up on, so that’s where I’ve been, not that any of you actually care. Because… like, the only people who leave comments …read more

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Yep… I am going on vacation to the snowy planes of Utah. Pray that I do not hydroplane off the icy freeways! That’s never fun… I’ll be back on March 20th, so come back then… or keep coming back until then and be bored. Your choice!

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Damn, I was trying to go for alliteration for my title. It didn’t work… at all.
Kangaroo. I’m a freak.
Anyways, news from GameDev says that Click Gamer, a website devoted to PDA/Mobile games and the like are putting on a competition for you, the awesome developer of games. If you like to program PDA games, now is your chance to submit them and get money from it.
It looks like Click Gamer will allow you to submit a game and they will give you $5,000 worth of free advertising to promote your game. And the best part is that …read more

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While checking out Game Dev, I ran into this intriguing article that makes me want to kill some aholes! Well, maybe not kill, but the article still made me upset.
There’s a guy out there by the name of Jeff Vogel who is a game developer… actually, I’m lazy, here’s the Wikipedia entry on the guy:

Jeff Vogel is the primary programmer for the company Spiderweb Software, which produces shareware computer games for Macintosh and Windows PC platforms.
To date, his most successful games have been the Exile series, its facelifted cousin Avernum, and Geneforge.

Okay, background completed.
Anyways, this is a …read more

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While perusing Game Dev, there’s an article advertising the Texas Independant Game Conference (wow, 3 links in ONE sentence. I am the shizzle!). The conference will take place in Austin, Texas from July 22 – 23.
I took the time (it’s so valuable!) to see what the conference would be talking about. Now without further ado, the conference topics:

Veterans and Visionaries – hear from those that have been there and done that…and people who have a keen eye for the future…on what is coming down the pike for indie games.
Market Place – how to commercialize indie games. …read more

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You’re a game developer. You’ve worked for months, maybe years to develop a game that is top notch and you know everyone will love. Problem is, you don’t have a publisher to push those games out to the public. You’ve tried and tried to get someone to like your game enough to get you some money for all your hard work. They tell you, “Thanks, but no thanks. And please lose my e-mail address. Loser.”
You cry.
A lot.
But, you get back up on your horse and do a little research on Digital Distribution, …read more

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If you go on over to Gamasutra’s site (and no, that is not some kinky sex site. They talk about game development stuff! Duh!) , you’ll find this article explaining why FPS games are “more attractive” to game publishers… It’s because game publishers are primarily men and they like to blow stuff up. And that’s cool.
Well, I don’t know if that’s true or not. The article doesn’t actually SAY that, but from a woman’s point of view, I’m confident in my analysis. Heh.
They also say that sports is unattractive for most publishers and that EA …read more

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