Holy wow it's 4am. Hells yea for 3 hours of sleep!

Three Rings Studio tour


I tagged along with the IGDA student scholars (one of whom I'm mentoring) as they went for a tour of the Three Rings offices down the street from Moscone.

While Daniel James, Three Rings CEO, managed to stand and talk to the I…

Two great sessions from the Indie Games Summit this morning - Rob Pardo from EA's casual games label talked about being an indie from the viewpoint of the "big players". He dispensed wisdom including what kind of budget breakdown you should expect in your projects, what to do when (not if, when) yo…

What a day. Seriously, I can't believe it's only Monday. How will I survive this week?? Well, I've done it before so, I can do it again!

Indie Game Summit Coverage Day One
After rushing out of the press lounge at 9:55 because I didn't realize that the Indie Game Summit was in North Hall (and the pre…

So the afternoon sessions kicked off with a panel on monetization and business models for Flash games. Again, it was a panel session and I can't take notes to save my life during panels... and my audio recorder ran out of batteries. Well crap. However I can check with Mochi and see if they recorded…

So we're pretty much all here in the Press Lounge at GDC planning out our day. It's pretty simple for Mon and Tues seeing as that you can either do a full-day tutorial or a full-day summit. Here's what everyone plans to cover today:

Myself: Indie Games Summit
Sean "Washu" Kent: Localization Summit
Dav…

I attended the Flash Gaming Summit this morning because Seyi was drunk with lack of sleep and ended up missing his flight out to San Francisco last night... and not just one either. But I'll let him tell you about that story for your enjoyment.

The FGS is being put on by Mochi Media, and is the firs…

Wednesday, March 18th

Holy wow what a long day. I was up at 9am to catch a train into NYC for a meeting with NBC executives and fellow local game developers to discuss an upcoming conference in Philly this October. Super stoked about being involved with that and look forward to getting GDNet more in…

So, I've already confessed to the evil deed of stealing my father's internet password, now as promised I will declassify the operation codenamed... uhm... crap I never thought to give this project a code name. How lame is that? LAME!! Well, anyways it was an operation that took place in my high sch…

Mod Census

This week I've begun taking stock of our moderator population. We have three main types of active moderators:

• Senior Mods: These guys have been around pretty much since the site's creation, or just practically live here in the forums. They keep watch over the entire community, sign off on …

GDC Preview

I was talking with Richard (superpig) the other day about GDC coverage this year as he is currently working on assembling the coverage portal. I really like the way we did things back in 2008, with blogging and highlight picture posting during the conference, and full reports and complet…