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Focusing development by way of bootstrapping

boot-strap-ping To promote and develop by use of one's own initiative and work without reliance on outside help. [url=h...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 11/07/2006 (5:11 pm) Comment 5 comments

New Human 2.0

Welcome to the World, Jonathan William MacGregor Maruschak! Weight: 8 pounds and 13 ounces Length: 20 inches Time: 12:50 pm Date:Monday, October 16, 2006 [image]http://www.joemaruschak...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 10/20/2006 (4:55 pm) Comment 58 comments

The Finish Line

Whee! I can finally talk about one of the things I have been working on during the last year. This week,[url=http://zone.msn.com/en/...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 09/30/2006 (4:39 pm) Comment 35 comments

Value of a Thing

Sorry for the few months of no blog posting. I was away on vacation in July for 3 weeks enjoying some much needed R and R. Aft...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 09/03/2006 (4:47 pm) Comment 29 comments

The shape of things to come

I have a long list of blogs that I have started writing. I am not 100% done with any of them, and I am still deciding on the order and...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 06/18/2006 (7:14 pm) Comment 27 comments

Starting a Studio: Things we did right

As I read the blogs and forum posts here, I am constantly excited by the volume of new projects that are started, and constantly dismayed...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 06/11/2006 (3:57 pm) Comment 13 comments

You Can Do it!

Sorry for being so quiet for so long. It has been almost a year since I started posting my long rambling blogs, and a lot has happen...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 06/02/2006 (9:37 pm) Comment 53 comments

The importance of theme

So in this blog entry, I will seemingly become a hypocrite and state that while I think story is mostly irrelevant to game design,...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 09/05/2005 (4:55 pm) Comment 9 comments

More Musings on Game Design

Been very busy at work, but I thought I would take the time to continue my 'series' of game design blogs, and hopefully help out a ...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 08/18/2005 (5:52 am) Comment 11 comments

Ramblings on Game Design

So the news is now out in the open, and everyone by now should know that [url=http://www.garagegames.com/news/7999] GarageGames has...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 06/20/2005 (4:52 am) Comment 29 comments

ThinkTanks XBox

ThinkTanks for XBOX live arcade is nearing completion. I am pretty stoked as when we were first asked about if we wanted to do it,...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 04/12/2005 (4:40 pm) Comment 21 comments

Powerup example Shape

Hey all, been meaning to do this for a while. In the spirit of the http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/1449/6056, [url=http://www.joemaruschak.com/powerup.zip]Here is the Powerup s...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 02/07/2005 (10:34 pm) Comment 9 comments

Ship it!

After the great response I got to http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=7096, and getting a little inspiration from [url=http://www.garagegame...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 02/04/2005 (6:32 am) Comment 18 comments

Life as and Indie Developer

The last few plans that I have posted have been marketing related, and I have been so busy with work that I had not had the time to ...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 02/01/2005 (6:01 pm) Comment 32 comments

Bundle Pack

I know everyone is getting sick of hearing it.. but we released http://www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id=51 [image]http://www.bravetree.com/GarageGames/Bu...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 12/10/2004 (10:36 pm) Comment 7 comments

Tank Content Pack

Just finished with the http://www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id=53 and submitted the package to GarageGames for upload. This tank pack will be our first combinat...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 11/15/2004 (8:04 pm) Comment 8 comments

Content Pack Progress

. Yet again, I did not realize how much time has passed since my last .plan.. we have been hella busy at BraveTree with a LOT going...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 10/29/2004 (1:50 pm) Comment 26 comments

Blue Guy

I have gotten quite a few requests for this model: You can get it http://www.bravetree.com/GarageGames/BlueGuy.zip...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 07/13/2004 (4:23 pm) Comment 19 comments

BraveTree: state of the Union

wow, It had been a long time since http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=4689 I had not realized so much time had passed. We may not ...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 07/01/2004 (3:03 pm) Comment 26 comments

ThinkTanks Active X demo

The IndieGamesCon is a few days away and we are really excited. I am really looking forward to meeting everyone and putting faces with the names. So you can find us, this is what we look like. [im...

Author Joe Maruschak Date 10/08/2003 (4:41 pm) Comment 7 comments

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