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Super Tuesday!!!

If you live in the US and you aren't completely consumed with your Second Life then you know that it is Super Tuesday. If your state is voting today, don't forget to get out to vote. Remember......

Author Anton Bursch Date 02/05/2008 (9:11 pm) Comment 17 comments

Indie First Person Shooter

So, the Gap is the latest corporation to get caught using child slave labor. They claim no knowledge, that it was a subcontract from one of their contractors. Ok. Maybe. Doesn't change the fact th...

Author Anton Bursch Date 11/05/2007 (2:16 am) Comment 24 comments

Social Impact of Games or Are Games Just For Fun?

Are games just for fun or can games make serious statements and raise serious questions about social and political issues? Should they? Music, paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, movies... ...

Author Anton Bursch Date 09/22/2007 (10:19 pm) Comment 7 comments

Beowulf: an Indie game

Well, I'm busy for the next year working two part time year long contracts. A 20 hour a week and a 30 hour a week. Making pretty good money. Not to bad for my second year working full time on game...

Author Anton Bursch Date 06/18/2007 (6:12 am) Comment 18 comments

Car Datablock Edit Gui

Hey, I just made a gui for editing the wheel vehicle car and tire and tire spring datablocks while driving around. Would that be something worth posting as a resource? I know I sure hated messing w...

Author Anton Bursch Date 05/25/2007 (9:23 pm) Comment 12 comments

FREE MIT COURSES ONLINE

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html I am so excited right now that I can barely contain myself. This link above is to a MASSIVE repository of actual MIT courses from under-graduate to gratuat...

Author Anton Bursch Date 03/28/2007 (10:34 am) Comment 10 comments

One Year Anniversary

March 15, 2006 was the day I was hired by Big Time Games and began my career as a full time game programmer. Today is my anniversary. In this year I've gone from $10/hr to $30/hr. I've got my name...

Author Anton Bursch Date 03/15/2007 (11:07 pm) Comment 14 comments

Do We Need Game Producers?

A thread http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=54877 got me thinking and talking about the role of game producers. The thread was a discussion about who should fol...

Author Anton Bursch Date 01/02/2007 (11:59 am) Comment 23 comments