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App-a-Day #2: GardenGrow

And the second app in my App-a-Day for 30 days project has been completed and submitted to Apple! This application is a fun little toy where you grow flowers by playing music.

Author Dave Calabrese Date 06/12/2009 (2:48 am) Comment 6 comments

App-a-Day #1: Tic-Tac-Bacon

The first App-a-Day has been submitted to Apple. A quick and quirky first title, it's Tic-Tac-Bacon!

Author Dave Calabrese Date 06/11/2009 (3:42 am) Comment 3 comments

An iPhone App a Day - for 30 Days

I'm going to need a lot of coffee for this. Like, a real lot of coffee. A gallon an hour perhaps. Not at first, of course - initially I'll just need a few mugs a day. This will quickly ramp up to a gallon an hour, which I will insist on drinking from a collector's cup shaped like a whale.

Author Dave Calabrese Date 06/09/2009 (12:30 am) Comment 11 comments

Gaslight Studios Developing iPhone Games with iTGB

Gaslight Studios, Inc. Has Announced the Development of Games for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch Devices Using the iTGB Game Engine by GarageGames, Inc., the First to be a Collection Game.

Author Dave Calabrese Date 05/10/2009 (10:07 pm) Comment 1 comments

Making Games Seminar Footage

It took us some time to clean up the poor audio from the seminar (our mic cut out at the last second and we were forced to rely on the camcorder mic). But the audio has been cleaned up to the best it ...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 10/07/2008 (6:52 pm) Comment 5 comments

Events, Cinematics & Easy Control of it all!

With a solid knowledge of Torque and a little ingenuity, one can do quite a lot. However, like any game engine, Torque doesn't have everything one might need in producing a game. One of the first proj...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 09/30/2008 (3:07 pm) Comment 8 comments

ARRGH! Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Avast! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day once again! And a happy one to all of you at that! Don't know about this scurvey holiday? Aim your mouse-clickings here: [url]http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/w...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 09/19/2008 (8:40 am) Comment 5 comments

NDK 'Making Games' Seminar a Success!

Nan Desu Kan has once again come and gone, however as always it was a blast - especially because Gaslight Studios was able to host a seminar on making video games! We had a great turnout, and got ...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 09/16/2008 (9:10 pm) Comment 5 comments

'Making Games' Seminar Radio Commercial

The fine gentlemen over at IndieZen Radio have offered us advertising space for the upcoming NDK 'Making Games' Seminar! We've put together a quick, fun and cheesy commercial just for them. Head on ov...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 08/30/2008 (1:09 am) Comment 0 comments

"Creating Video Games" Seminar at NDK 2008!

Gaslight Studios is proud to announce that we will be hosting a "Making Video Games" seminar at the annual Denver Anime Convention, "Nan Desu Kan!". Here is the body of our public announcement: [qu...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 08/16/2008 (6:34 pm) Comment 0 comments

Igniting the Flame of "Gaslight Studios"

It has been a long, well tread road that I have traversed over the past 7 years that I have been a professional developer of video games. I know that I am certainly not the first person to go this rou...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 07/29/2008 (9:36 pm) Comment 15 comments

TTQFE Experiment Pack 1 Released!

An all new set of unsolved experiments have been uncovered as the first Experiment Pack for TubeTwist: Quantum-Flux Edition has been released! Titled "Unsolved Twisteries", this pack includes 10 all n...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 03/26/2007 (1:09 pm) Comment 0 comments

Orbz Course Pack 6 Now Available, Just in time for the Holidays!

The holidays approacheth, and 21-6 is not going to forget its fans! Prepare for Course Pack 6! This latest rendition of the Course Pack has 47 courses! Yes, you read that right... 47. Fourty Seven. A ...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 12/19/2006 (4:07 pm) Comment 4 comments

Great Games Experiment TubeTwist Fan Club

If you are a member of the Great Games Experiment, and you love TubeTwist (and who doesn't!), come join us in discussing the physicy-fun! The TubeTwist Fan Club: http://www.greatgamesexperiment.co...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 12/10/2006 (12:17 pm) Comment 0 comments

TubeTwist - Up for the 2006 Players Choice Award!

TubeTwist has been nominated for the Players Choice Awards at GameTunnel! We ask all fans of TubeTwist to take a minute out of their busy schedule to vote! Don't know what TubeTwist is all about, or w...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 12/06/2006 (6:21 pm) Comment 4 comments

Orbz Course Pack 5 Released

It's been quite some time since anything Orbz related has been discussed. Thanks to the incredible community support from the player 'Slacker', an all new course pack has been released. This new pack ...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 08/02/2006 (11:21 pm) Comment 11 comments

New TubeTwist Edition Needs Testers!

It's been awhile since TubeTwist has been mentioned publically since its release, however the time has come to announce something! We have been hard at work on an all new edition of TubeTwist. Ladi...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 07/31/2006 (7:24 pm) Comment 2 comments

My First Dev Article

In the interest of enhancing my understanding of advanced game development and design, along with giving back what I do learn to others out there, I have started writing some articles on game design a...

Author Dave Calabrese Date 04/24/2006 (7:31 pm) Comment 2 comments

Plan for Dave Calabrese

Game Development - The Game

Author Dave Calabrese Date 08/31/2005 (8:01 pm) Comment 2 comments