A quick tour of the Indie Game Collective space
Strangers sometimes walk up to me on the street and ask, “What does the Indie Game Collective look like, anyway?” Here’s a quick tour, someday to be replaced by a better tour.
- Ichiro
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Planned in Boston: Games are Better When We Do Them Together
It’s not unusual to hear stories of big successes on the part of small development teams. Two-person teams will sell millions of units of a quirky title, as was the case for Super Meat Boy and World of Goo. But those are the success stories; other independent developers struggle with the challenges of being small. Those who set up shop in the Boston area, though, can become part of a supportive community that will help get them over the hurdles and into success stories of their own.
Read more at Boston.com/State of Play.
Ichiro Speaks at GDC China: First steps and avoiding pitfalls
Dejobaan’s Ichiro Lambe spoke at GDC China in Shanghai this past month. The focus was on starting an independent studio, and the talk touched on 9 common pitfalls that plague all new small game dev businesses. Gamasutra posted a writeup of the talk:
Ichiro Lambe has learned a lot of hard lessons since he founded independent studio Dejobaan (AaaAAAAAaaaaA: A Reckless Disregard For Gravity) over twelve years ago. At a talk at the Indie Game Summit this week at GDC China, Lambe whittled these down to the nine common pitfalls that most indie studios are in danger of facing.
Spoiler: Don’t do a 3-person MMORPG as your first title.
Dejobaan to speak on procedural content generation at MIGS 2012
Ichiro Lambe of Boston studio Dejobaan will speak about Procedural Content Generation (PCG) on November 14th at the 2012 Montreal International Game Summit. The Procedural Content Generation wiki defines “PGC” thusly:
Procedural content generation (PCG) is the programmatic generation of game content using a random or pseudo-random process that results in an unpredictable range of possible game play spaces.
It’s both the Holy Grail and flying car of video games — a panacea always 5 years off. What’s the hold-up, why will PCG be vital to us over the next 10 years, and why should you be thinking more seriously about it in your game design? Dejobaan has used PCG within its award-winning 2009 indie title, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, and has been developing techniques for its upcoming, entirely procedurally-generated Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby.
