This month, the adventurers Chloe, Arianna, Dirk, and Benjamin spend the whole time trying to get through the first five mi...

Author Jay Barnson Date 07/30/2007 (11:43 pm) Comment 7 comments

Chloe: EWW! Pus! I hate these things. Arianna: Waitaminute! That's PUS covering these monsters? Chloe: Worse. I think these are pus-golems, creatures magically built out of ...

Author Jay Barnson Date 06/29/2007 (11:41 am) Comment 6 comments

Last month, I talked about how I would be publicly documenting my development on Frayed Knights. So far, it has been a successful experiment. [image align=right]http://www.rampantgames.com/...

Author Jay Barnson Date 05/28/2007 (11:01 am) Comment 10 comments

Many moons ago, while shooting off my mouth on these very forums about how you didn't need a big budget and premium tools to make games, Tom Bampton called me on it and dared me to do just that - in a...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/28/2007 (10:01 am) Comment 8 comments

It's http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/2007/04/beyond-gate-jason-compton-on-making-of.html again at Rampant Games! This isn't very Torque-related, but it is indie-related. Her...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/16/2007 (10:07 am) Comment 13 comments

Interview Time! So what does it take for an indie studio to publish successful downloadable games for the new consoles? I got the chance to ask Steve Taylor of NinjaBee this question (and LOTS m...

Author Jay Barnson Date 02/21/2007 (8:33 am) Comment 7 comments

As I said earlier, I'm trying to do monthly-ish interviews with indie game developers or other notables from the industry. This month, I interview Georgina Bensley, creator of the award-winning, best-...

Author Jay Barnson Date 12/04/2006 (8:37 am) Comment 3 comments

I managed to score a (fairly lengthy) interview with Amanda Fitch, the indie developer who created the hit indie fantasy RPG, "http://www.rampantgames.com/aveyond.html," over at [ur...

Author Jay Barnson Date 11/13/2006 (11:30 am) Comment 10 comments

I did a little write-up over at http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/ about my effort to combine Torque Game Builder with the latest (1.5) version of the Torque Game...

Author Jay Barnson Date 11/10/2006 (12:33 pm) Comment 9 comments

Those who were fans of computer RPGs and Adventure Games in the 80's and 90's (yeah, I know there's a bunch of us old farts around here) probably already know who Scorpia is. Those who don't, well, sh...

Author Jay Barnson Date 10/24/2006 (8:51 am) Comment 7 comments

Mike Rubin (AKA "Rubes" here in the GarageGames community) is doing some fascinating work in bringing old-school "Interactive Fiction" (Adventure Games) into full 3D environments. His project is calle...

Author Jay Barnson Date 08/07/2006 (1:36 pm) Comment 5 comments

The Avatar of Ultima VII now has a new party member... Yeah, this is a silly bit of Forrest Gump-ery. Though I did a littl...

Author Jay Barnson Date 06/30/2006 (8:03 am) Comment 15 comments

Wow. The first Utah Indie Game Developer's meet about nine months ago was something like 10 people. The next one was 13. The following one was 16 people. I worried we might not sustain our growth ...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/27/2006 (11:40 pm) Comment 7 comments

I left the video game industry in September 2000 (though I kept coming back as a consultant into October). I had a lot of reasons. I was fed up with some of the practices in the industry, and bored wi...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/17/2006 (7:38 pm) Comment 13 comments

In-between job interviews and Disneyland trips and handling a handful of "honey-dos" my wife has arranged for me during my current unemployment, I've managed to get a ton of progress done in [url=http...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/07/2006 (10:16 am) Comment 10 comments

More bits from the http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/2006/02/kicking-tail-and-making-games-pt-1.html. Tentative title: "Cutter Hawke In Apocalypse Cow." The graphics a...

Author Jay Barnson Date 03/19/2006 (12:43 am) Comment 14 comments

I didn't have much time for game development this weekend, but what I did have allowed me to get "in the zone" for a few hours. This is by far some of the most productive time to be had. I cleared a t...

Author Jay Barnson Date 02/12/2006 (11:56 pm) Comment 9 comments

Last night was the http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=38491 (I don't know if it has an official name yet - it's just what I call it)....

Author Jay Barnson Date 01/19/2006 (1:01 pm) Comment 6 comments

Productivity Tip - The List

Author Jay Barnson Date 12/16/2005 (12:42 pm) Comment 4 comments

Prototyping Means Sucking Less Sooner

Author Jay Barnson Date 11/12/2005 (10:36 am) Comment 8 comments