Welcome to the future of gaming: InstantAction, featuring 3D games in a browser. Alex Swanson, lead developer of popular sports arena game Rokkitball, talks about what it was like to develop for this unique web platform.

Author Alex Swanson Date 06/12/2008 (1:47 pm) Comment 13 comments

As many of you who have been working with Torque Game Builder know, the art included with the base "TGB" package has not changed for quite some time! As a result, most of our tutorials and a lot of n...

Author Alex Swanson Date 10/04/2006 (2:41 pm) Comment 15 comments

Just a quick update to point out the move of the Exporter Matrices from my personal site to http://tdn.garagegames.com/. They have been renamed "Exporter Feature Charts" to be more c...

Author Alex Swanson Date 02/15/2006 (5:52 pm) Comment 13 comments

The journey to Marble Blast on the 360 has finally come to an end. Today at around 2:30pm PST, the game went up on XBox Live Arcade servers. Since then, over 1000 people have posted high scores on t...

Author Alex Swanson Date 01/25/2006 (7:07 pm) Comment 29 comments

A friend of mine who visited the site commented that I should perhaps update my blog, as I had not written since January. I have been waiting to write a plan until I had something major to announce...

Author Alex Swanson Date 07/01/2005 (1:06 pm) Comment 8 comments

It has been a long day since the 4:00 pickup by Jay and Julie Moore for Jay and my flight down here to San Francisco. After a quick layover in Portland, we landed in San Francisco just before 9:00. ...

Author Alex Swanson Date 01/10/2005 (9:15 pm) Comment 8 comments

It has been an exciting 2 months since Pat arrived and work on Marble Blast for Xbox. Things were a bit rocky early on, with unclear and constantly updated UI requirements coming in. Every page of t...

Author Alex Swanson Date 09/03/2004 (11:30 am) Comment 18 comments

I've put together a http://alexswanson.com/torque/dts/ that I am aware of and their features. It is at this point nowhere near complete, but I think that it...

Author Alex Swanson Date 06/29/2004 (10:54 am) Comment 24 comments

Gone for the Holidays, back Jan 2nd 2004

Author Alex Swanson Date 12/27/2003 (10:05 pm) Comment 3 comments

Planning major projects for 2004: Torque Documentation, Make Games Site Enhancements

Author Alex Swanson Date 12/03/2003 (4:11 pm) Comment 3 comments

Back from Europe, looking for work, and preparing for IGC.

Author Alex Swanson Date 09/19/2003 (3:37 pm) Comment 2 comments

Well, finally back from GDC. It was a lot of fun - very intense. I'm a bit behind on my classwork, but I'll be done with that by the end of the week, for better or worse. Level building will be the big priority after that -- Marble Blast addicts beware :)

Author Alex Swanson Date 03/10/2003 (3:57 pm) Comment 0 comments

Marble Blast finished! Christmas break and the new year shall bring new excitement...

Author Alex Swanson Date 12/19/2002 (9:45 pm) Comment 2 comments

Marbles almost finished, starting to think about the next project...

Author Alex Swanson Date 11/14/2002 (12:49 pm) Comment 1 comments

Internship at GarageGames!

Author Alex Swanson Date 06/20/2002 (3:02 pm) Comment 4 comments

Figuring out what we need in order to create a game...

Author Alex Swanson Date 08/25/2001 (3:11 am) Comment 0 comments