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Rob Shillingsburg
Indie game developer (http://realmofthemadgod.com/), co-founder of Wild Shadow Studios (http://wildshadow.com/), ex-Googler
Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ - http://blogs.wsj.com/digits...
Am no fanboy, but...these are good.
- Rob Shillingsburg
GDC Europe: European Indies Will Take Over From the 'Failed' Industry, Says Tale of Tales' Samyn - http://indiegames.com/2011...
Trying to push games "beyond fun" is like trying to push TV "beyond shows".
- Rob Shillingsburg
I enjoyed some of the TV that went beyond shows.
- Amit Patel
Agile: The good, the bad and the ugly. - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r...
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Good stuff! I agree.
- Rob Shillingsburg
The Way of the Game – 79 – In Which War Is Declared Against Windsor, Colorado « The Way of the Game - http://thewayofthegame.net/...
Realm of the Mad God gets about 8 minutes of attention in this podcast (starting at 4:00).
- Rob Shillingsburg
XBL Indie Game Pick: Production Panic (Mike Enoch) - http://indiegames.com/2011...
Looks like RotMG's Sprite World dungeon. :)
- Rob Shillingsburg
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...and this is why Realm of the Mad God has no NPC merchants.
- Rob Shillingsburg
Hivemind The Gap « Oh No! Video Games! - http://ohnovideogames.com/2011...
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The "hivemind" aspect of RotMG groups has always fascinated me.
- Rob Shillingsburg
Realm of the Mad God - http://www.tigsource.com/2011...
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Derek Yu (of Spelunky fame, and TIGSource honcho) graces us with a mention. :)
- Rob Shillingsburg
Bullet Candy Perfect Is Free Today - http://indiegames.com/2011...
That is a LOT of bullets
- Rob Shillingsburg
Indie Game Pick: Space Rubbish (Slakinov) - http://indiegames.com/2011...
I like the look of this.
- Rob Shillingsburg
Build 116 - http://blog.wildshadow.com/wild_sh...
King Arthur’s Gold Build 40 - http://www.tigsource.com/2011...
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OK...this looks familiar
- Rob Shillingsburg
Woah
- Amit Patel
Non-twitch will make you rich - http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2011...
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World of Tanks, raking it in while targeting geezers...
- Rob Shillingsburg
Count me as a geezer. I like a slightly slower game that lets me think.
- Amit Patel
Trailer: Terraria - http://indiegames.com/2011...
As near as I can tell, this really is 2D platforming Minecraft: buy it and install it (not web based), players run their own servers, huge procedural world, chop & mine to collect resources, make a workbench, craft all your tools from the stuff you collect, monsters come out at night, protect yourself by building a fortress, etc.
- Rob Shillingsburg
I've played this game over 24 hours in the last 2 days. :( I missed four meals. I should take a break.
- Amit Patel
Terraria vs Minecraft: Why 2D Is King - http://indiegames.com/2011...
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Terraria is pretty fun.
- Rob Shillingsburg
I love 2D and I love building with tiles and I should be playing this game!
- Amit Patel
It's like an ant farm, and you are the only ant. Or at least the only one who knows how to dig. And the other ants are trying to kill you.
- Rob Shillingsburg
And kill me they do. So many deaths in so little time …
- Amit Patel
Build 115 - http://blog.wildshadow.com/wild_sh...
Trailer: Voxatron (Lexaloffle) - http://www.indiegames.com/blog...
A single-player top-down voxel shooter. Imagine this as an MMO.
- Rob Shillingsburg
Oryx's Wine Cellar - http://blog.wildshadow.com/wild_sh...
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The wine cellar is pretty cool.
- Amit Patel
Gamasutra - Features - Redesigning Wild Ones into Playdom's Top Game: A Social Game Design Reboot - http://www.gamasutra.com/view...
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A deep look into the soul of a social game designer. Also -- do you really win this game by just paying a ton of money?
- Rob Shillingsburg
Power gain per level - http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2011...
I love the idea of players of all levels working together. Everyone loves to level up, but levels normally end up separating you from your friends. Compressing the power gain per level is a way to retain levels while still allowing people of different levels to interact in the game.
- Rob Shillingsburg
Build 114.1 in Testing - http://blog.wildshadow.com/wild_sh...
Preview: Blockade Runner - http://www.tigsource.com/2011...
Cute! But will "low-res voxel builder" ever replace "gimmicky puzzle platformer" as the standard indie game genre?
- Rob Shillingsburg
Yes, until Nov 2012.
- Amit Patel
What happens then?
- Rob Shillingsburg
That'll be when people are utterly burnt out on low-res voxel builders ;)
- Amit Patel
And then it will be "pixellated permadeath mmo shooter" I guess...
- Rob Shillingsburg
Don't criticize Farmville! - http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2011...
Core gameplay is paramount, and games must be fun immediately. For web games, these things are even more important, as each new user has only one single click invested in trying your game. If you don't grab that user immediately, it's just one little click to move to the next game and forget about yours forever.
- Rob Shillingsburg
Build 114 - http://blog.wildshadow.com/wild_sh...
League of Legends 101 - part 1 - http://word-of-shadow.blogspot.com/2011...
LoL is an involved, complicated, frenetic team-based multiplayer game that I don't have time to learn. If I try, I'm pretty sure I'll forget the small amount of Starcraft II I've picked up.
- Rob Shillingsburg
New Testing Build 113.1 - http://blog.wildshadow.com/wild_sh...
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The vault is good. I am going to all buy it.
- MIKADO_RotMG
Realm of the Mad God | NextMMORPG - http://www.nextmmorpg.com/realm-o...
This review and a "Let's Play" from MMOHut kicked off a big surge of traffic a few days ago.
- Rob Shillingsburg
Main MMOHut link is http://mmohut.com/browser...
- Rob Shillingsburg
Announcing Spry Fox - http://www.spryfox.com/2010...
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Spry Fox launches; yes we are the "exceedingly unusual Flash MMOG"
- Rob Shillingsburg
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