Dev Links: Underbelly
Indie Fund, game jams and other topics to choose from in today’s Developer Links.
Indie Fund: Striving for irrelevance (Games Industry)
“Nathan Vella, Matthew Wegner, and Aaron Isaksen on balancing fiscal responsibility and creative risk to empower an industry”
What about love? Inside a game jam revolution (Gamasutra)
“The portrayal of romance in games has been an open discussion in traditional game design circles, and players and creators alike have longed to see how we can explore the deep and nuanced tonalities of love in interactive entertainment.”
Lostcast 30: Launchcast (Lost Decade Games)
“Lostcast is the Lost Decade Games podcast, where we talk about running our independent HTML5 game company. New to the show? Get your feet wet with our most popular episodes HTML5, The Bad Parts or Quite an Impact.”
do your nails in the dark (Auntie Pixelante)
“well, if i’m gonna make one sequel, why not do another.”
Week full of good news (Winter Wolves)
“After some rather sad/grim posts in the past, today I’m pleased to make a very happy one. :)”
Democracy 3′s Minister portraits (Positech Games)
“Here are a bunch of close-to-final randomly generated minister portraits for Democracy 3. They are made up from a large number of layers, with a different image for each jacket, shirt, tie, eyes, glasses, hair, skin and so on… it makes for quite a complex image, but means I can vary the color of someones tie and shirt independently so I get tons and tons of variety. It really bugged me that I had such a limited choice of minister portraits for Democracy 2, because it made it really obvious how limited the game was in that area. I know it’s an indie game, but your chancellor shouldn’t use the same character sprite as you law and order minister right?”
The Video Game Kickstarter Report – Week of April 12 (Zeboyd Games)
Good Morning Gato # 116 – Joy of Boxes (Ska Studios)
“As promised here are this week’s burning questions. Let us know if you enjoy this new feature of Good Morning Gato and we’ll keep doing it!”
