Experimental Game Dev Podcast Show

Development of the game, Rocketbirds Revolution

Sian Yue from Ratloop Asia talks about their game, Rocketbirds Revolution

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/rocketbirds-gdc-2010-interview.mp3

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Social Game Flash Engine Tutorial, Part 1: Developing Your Own MMO

This is the tutorial that goes along with the FREE Social Game Flash Engine

Over the following set of articles we aim to give you all of the information you’ll need to create your own flash based social MMO.

For the most part we will be targetting Facebook. Facebook’s 400 million active users makes it an ideal platform to target. Their Flash API allows us to connect with the player and encourage them to share the experience with their peers. Allowing the player to interact and solve problems with their friends can help make for fantastic gameplay.

VetRanch is an example of an open source MMO aimed at Facebook that takes part in an Isometric setting, where the player engages in the exciting role of being a vet. The player must raise animals, care for them and release them when they have been nursed backed to health. We will be taking a look at the VetRanch code, and the way the game is set up and then use this as a basis to help you create your own MMO.

Using RightScale To Scale Your Online Game

Hunter of RightScale talks about their cloud management platform

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/right-scale-gdc-2010-interview.mp3

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Development of the student game, Puzzle Bloom

Daniel talks about his student team project, Puzzle Bloom

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/puzzle-bloom-gdc-2010-interview.mp3

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Development of the student game, Puddle

Remi talks about their student project, Puddle

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/puddle-student-igf-2010-interview.mp3

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Development of the game, Pocket God

Dave talks about his game, Pocket God

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/pocket-god-gdc-2010-interview-final.mp3

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Development of the game, Paper Cakes

Interview about the game, Paper Cakes

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/paper-cakes-gdc-2010-interview.mp3

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Development of the game, Owl Boy

Adrian, Simon and Jo of DPadStudio talk about their game, Owl Boy

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/owl-boy-gdc-2010-interview.mp3

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Meteor Games President Talks About Founding Neopets and Making Social Games…

Donna of Meteor Games talks about their new games as well as Neopets

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http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/meteor-games-gdc-2010-interview.mp3

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Free Friday: $50,000 Social Game Engine For Free…

Hey folks,

Many new indie/experimental game developers are succeeding with Social Games. We’ve convinced a group to help out indies and give out their Social Game Engine for any indie to use. They normally charge $50,000 to license the engine, but all indies can have it for free.

You can use it to make your own Flash Social MMO on Facebook or any other place on the web. Use it with the Free Social Game Development book released a while back to make your own successful game and live the game developer dream…

In the next few days, there will be a series of articles on how to use the engine…in the meantime, feel free to post any questions about the technical details here…we’ll see if we can find an answer to them 🙂

The Social Game Engine uses Flash for the front end and Google App Engine for the backend.

You can download the Social Game Engine here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/social-game-engine.zip

Keep in mind that this is an exclusive to the listeners/followers of the show…thanks again for your support and hope you find it useful…enjoy 🙂