Back at IGC 2007 I showed off a little TGB game called Debris. Here's what Chris Faylor of Shacknews had to say about it in his Indie Adventures coverage of the conference: [quote] Billed as "the...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 12/06/2008 (2:34 am) Comment 2 comments

A week ago I was almost positive that I'd be purchasing iTGB. There was one nagging gut feeling though that I just couldn't shake. It was a feeling of uncertainty. Before pulling out my credit card...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 10/20/2008 (5:51 pm) Comment 38 comments

The new Games Demystified is up on Gamasutra today. http://www.gamasutra.com or http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3770/games_demystified_portal.php I primarily scoped it to the "flingi...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 08/26/2008 (4:04 pm) Comment 4 comments

If you pass by Gamasutra today take a look at the Cover Feature. It's an article I wrote detailing the physics in Super Mario Galaxy. There's some source code with it as well which is nice for conce...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 03/27/2008 (6:10 pm) Comment 3 comments

As I'm nearly done with the low spec PC port of Full Contact Debate (www.fullcontactdebate.com) so I thought I'd get a little head start on the Oust style Statue of Liberty map which is coming up. I'...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 03/10/2008 (10:05 pm) Comment 5 comments

Full Contact Debate (www.fullcontactdebate.com) multiplied its player base this weekend in large part because of the Mac port. The game is now hosting more than 1,200 players with new users joining b...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 03/10/2008 (4:35 am) Comment 1 comments

The Mac build of Full Contact Debate is now up: [url=www.fullcontactdebate.com]FullContactDebate.com[/url]. If anyone has a Mac and has been even remotely interested in testing this game I'd lov...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 03/06/2008 (12:17 am) Comment 3 comments

I had planned to wait on porting Full Contact Debate to the Mac. However, I decided that I needed a TGE 1.5 build of the game and while I was at it I might as well start on a different platform just ...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 03/04/2008 (7:39 am) Comment 0 comments

Coming to an end of our first complete week of play these are the poll numbers coming out of Full Contact Debate: [url=www.fullcontactdebate.com]FullContactDebate.com[/url] =======================...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 02/29/2008 (7:24 pm) Comment 3 comments

In a recent forum discussion I mentioned that piracy was dead. Someone else mentioned Steam as a solution. To a degree Steam is a solution. More to the point though is that content is going free. As s...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 02/25/2008 (6:33 pm) Comment 25 comments

I'm mirroring this email to the Full Contact Debate Community here so any people still on the sidelines can get involved. ===========================================================================...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 02/23/2008 (1:45 am) Comment 0 comments

[url=www.fullcontactdebate.com]FullContactDebate.com[/url] Click on the Game link to download the game from one of the mirrors. For all the Ron Paul fans out there, we got him in today ;) About 2...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 02/21/2008 (2:56 am) Comment 6 comments

Usually, when a musician goes political the death knell of their career isn't far behind. Pearl Jam and Eminem are just a couple of recent musicians who made this turn for the worse (musically) and t...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 02/19/2008 (10:14 pm) Comment 12 comments

Check it out... [url=www.fullcontactdebate.com]FullContactDebate.com[/url] The game isn't available just yet but there are some screen shots on the site as well as a video. The open beta goes l...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 02/13/2008 (3:06 am) Comment 6 comments

Aerial Antics is a lot of fun for me and there's so much that I want to do with the concept that I still haven't done (somethings are actually planned for a whole other series of games). Anyway, ther...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 09/25/2006 (11:44 pm) Comment 8 comments

This is a pretty straight forward concept. If you want to get ahead in life you need to produce more than you consume. This is something I think about often as I head into development on a title (ok...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 09/19/2006 (1:23 am) Comment 7 comments

This past weekend we had some friends and family come by the house for a holiday get together. I took the opportunity of course to put some...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 09/05/2006 (8:02 am) Comment 6 comments

It's been a while since I've blogged about anything which wasn't more or less technical in nature. So far 2006 has been a year of experimentation for me. It's been nearly 4 years since I created Aer...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 08/31/2006 (7:39 am) Comment 8 comments

A decent amount of progress has been made on Oust since last IGC. - 1.4 Build - TSE Build - Numerous Gameplay Tweaks On the whole not much that anyone would notice too much actually... ...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 08/29/2006 (8:55 am) Comment 2 comments

As I'm working on my latest I've realized how important it is for the player to be able to predict his/her immediate actions but also how important it is for those actions to surprise them sometimes. ...

Author Jeremy Alessi Date 07/27/2006 (9:35 am) Comment 5 comments