Experimental Game Dev Podcast Show

Free Open Source Flash Mini Game…

Hey folks,

Here’s another flash mini-game that is open sourced 🙂

Feel free to use/modify it for your games 🙂

http://www.indiegamepod.com/flash-mini-game-source-2.zip

Developing The Game… Bumble Tales

Billy, from Perfect Dork Studios, talks about the development of Bumble Tales

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/agdc-bumble-tales-interview.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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Community Game Dev Project Update…

Hey folks,

Based on some suggestions, we’re going to revise the first project a little. Specifically, the goal of these projects is to do something in a new and experimental area of gaming.

Making a variation on a shooter game falls short of this goal. So we’re going to revise the project to focus on more innovative areas of games. For example, we may do an ARG in the future. For now, we’ll focus on some of these games on social networks.

The way this will work is that we’ll have an indie team that is already working on a game show it off. Then folks in the community can offer feedback, etc. The team may take the feedback or not…it’s up to them since it’s their game. However, they will share stats/updates on the game so that folks have an idea of how things are going with the game.

These dev projects offer other indie/experimental game devs a feeling of creating a new game without having to dedicate time/resources to making it work.

With that said, “Community Game Dev” seems to be a misnomer…post any suggestions on what these projects should be called in the comments below. Thx 🙂

Maybe something like “Experimental Game Dev” project?

Details on the first game should come out next week.

Developing Successful Social Games on Facebook

Blake talks about building hit social games on Facebook like Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/agdc-blake-zombies-vampires-interview.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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Win an iPhone FMOD License + Using Sound Design To Enhance Your Game

FMOD has been nice enough to give away one license to an indie developer for either indie or iPhone audio development. To see who gets the license, we’re holding another contest…post why you need an FMOD audio license…like what game will it be used for…and the indie/team most likely to release a compelling game the soonest wins it.

Now…onto the podcast…

Ben, from Firelight Technologies, discusses the importance of audio in games.

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/agdc-ben-fmod-interview-final.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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Using Games to Get People To Recycle…

Here’s an interesting and compelling use of games to get people to recycle…a glimpse on the power of fun to change behavior…

Announcing the “Community Game Dev” project…

The show is going to try a little experiment…mainly, we’re going to have a little “community game dev” project…something that will be developed on the show…and listeners can provide feedback/suggestions/modifications…and the game will get updated accordingly.

This will be a good way to get some experience in developing a simple game…and will keep things interesting.

The goal is to make a game that is interesting, unique, and gets played. Every aspect of these projects will be transparent including play and revenue stats.

Let’s keep the first project simple…it’ll build off the open sourced space shooter code recently posted on the site.

Here is the working version of it…this will be version 1.0….post your suggestions for the next step in the comments below. We’ll spend the next 2 weeks iterating on this project and then “releasing” it to players around the world 🙂

Free Open Source Flash Space-Shooter Mini Game…

Hey folks,

As part of the commitment to help indie game developers, the show releases freebies as often as possible 🙂 Today, you can now download free code for a simple space shooter game in Flash.

Feel free to use this code as a mini-game in your own RPG game, MMO game, or even simple space shooter game 🙂

If you have suggestions for future code you’d like to see, post it in the comments 🙂

Thx 🙂

http://www.indiegamepod.com/space-shooter-code.zip

Indie Version of Unity Now Free…

Hey folks,

The indie version of Unity is now FREE…you can check it out here…
http://unity3d.com/unity/download/

The Benefits of Unity for Game Development

Note: The contest took place in August…this is a re-airing of the August interview 🙂

Tom, from Unity 3D, talks about their cross platform game development tools

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/cc-unity-interview.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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