Posts Tagged ‘Indie Flux’

Preview: Awesome Soccer

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Awesome Soccer is Awesome.  Okay our next preview is a soccer game called Awesome Soccer by Red27 Studios.  You know what I played that as a kid for about a year or something in grade school.  There was this one game where I managed to score a goal, and it actually got in the paper (this was in Georgia like in the 80’s)  when I was i don’t know 3-4-5th grade.  Ever since then I liked soccer pretty good.  Of course now I don’t play and I don’t watch even though I dig the game.  But that’s another story for another day.  Here’s what Awesome Soccer is about

Awesome Soccer features a superb after-touch system that allows you complete control over the swerve of the ball…you can even bend it in both directions!  Score spectacular goals the great Roberto Carlos would be proud of!”

I mean how Awesome is that?!?

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10 more interesting links

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Igor Hardy has something to say about adventure games and other forms of entertainment on his blog A Hardy Developer’s Journal.

Mythbusters video on YouTube about lighter than air and heavier than air gases.

In the late 1920’s or the early 1930’s Robert Benchley, an American humorist of the time, wrote of a novel way to get things done.

Another awesome YouTube video.  Let’s just say it concerns Super Mario World, and make sure you have the sound on or else it won’t make sense.

The Ambition of the Independent Video Game by (I don’t know this guy’s name, uses the name mtvernon on his blog and writes about video games ‘cuz he “really, really” likes them), taken from an article about the short story but applied to video games.

Apparently Unity has a “free” indie license now, and also has Xbox 360 support in the works as told on Gamasutra in an interview with David Helgason (Unity CEO).

Mattias Gustavsson talks about old video games on old tv’s, and how we thought they looked better than they do mostly ‘cuz of color bleeding and blurring inherent on old displays.  He’s even created a filter for his game engine that emulates it.

Homepage of Michael Walthius the “Keyboard Wizard” who makes music using synthesizers and such.

Michael Thompson on Ars Technica extols the virtues of the dedicated server for multiplayer fps games, as it seems that Infinity Ward decided to drop dedicated servers from the PC build of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in favor of something called IWNET.

Jason Wilson on BitMob talks to for ExtremeTech.com editor Jason Cross on Windows 7 and gaming, it was originally shown in July of ‘09 but it’s still worthwhile reading.

Calling all Indie Game Developers – Indie Flux Banner Contest!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Update: Monday December 7th – Entries for the drawing are officially closed. A special thanks to all those who entered. Winners for the banner space will be announced shortly. Because of the lack of entrants I’ve decided everyone that entered will get a review. And the links to these reviews will be put into a sticky that’s up until the end of January. All comments on this post are closed.

Original: October 31st. —
Calling all Independent Game Developers!  Indie Flux wants to put your screen shot in the banner along with a clickable link to your game.  So we’ve decided to hold a sort of informal drawing.  Essentially between now and December 4th, 2009, we want you game developers to submit links to the screen shots of your independent game.  There are prizes (well sort of)…

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