This PAX East is turning out to be quite an exciting one, with a large amount of our studios showing games off at the Indie MegaBooth!

Our titles include:

• Drop that Beat like an Ugly Baby (Dejobaan, HybridMind, Zapdot)
• Drunken Robot Pornography (Dejobaan)
• Girls Like Robots (Popcannibal)
• Jungle Rumble (Disco Pixel)
• Monster Loves You (Dejobaan, Radial Games)
• PWN (82 Apps)
• SpinSpell HD (VTDA)

After that, most of us are heading out to San Francisco to the annual Game Developers Conference. See everyone in a week!

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.

Read more here.