Typically, speakers at GDC's annual developer rant panel take to the microphone to rant for their allotted five minutes, but this year, design veteran and SpyParty creator Chris Hecker let the industry do the talking for him.
Cat writes, "Next week at 12:01 a.m. on July 1st, the inaugural Indie Games Month hits N4G.
"Every single day of July we’ll be featuring indie devs and their work with interviews, reveals, guest blogs and perhaps most important to your greedy little hearts: GIVEAWAYS. Yes, there will be free games, gift cards and hugs given out every single day during July.
"Worried about missing something? We’ll have a beautiful widget occupying mainpage space so all you have to do is visit N4G.com every day while your eyes are open!"
The Octodad devs are Chicago based? I didn't know that. We'd probably have more developers in the area if Chicago/IL was a better place for doing business...or better at just about anything else.
I'm glad someone else is enjoying my awesome map :D
I ran into that in a couple places I lived, though New Orleans notably comes to mind...some places just lack the infrastructure for an industry. Advantage to the idea that indie devs are necessarily nimble? Slovenia! Buenos Aires!
Cat writes, "After months of planning in my über secret lair, I'm more than a little excited to share that this July we will host our first ever Indie Games Month at N4G! A month-long celebration of indie developers and games, we’re giving indies main page N4G time with demos, trailers, previews, interviews, guest blogs and giveaways."
Bleszinski, Cage, Schafer, Romero, Chen, and Hecker on ego, morale, and the pearls and perils of gaming fame
with more ram comes better characters and a new play style... alright than