Blogs about: Independent Development
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Happy New Year?
2008 closed with bad news for the East Midlands, with Free Radical Design going into administration (Edge Online gave some of the best coverage), though so far it seems not liquidation. The gamers I k… more →
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Happy New Year?
davidhayward wrote 10 months ago: 2008 closed with bad news for the East Midlands, with Free Radical Design going into administration … more →
Sense of Wonder
davidhayward wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been slowly (too slowly) working my way through these Sense of Wonder Night videos from T … more →
Indie Arcade
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: One of the events we ran in London last week was the Indie Games Arcade, which was a huge success. W … more →
NC Allstars
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: It’s just over a month since speculation surfaced on cuts at NCsoft Brighton, with the situati … more →
Reduction in Reviews to Hit Indies?
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: From the Introversion forums comes disturbing news that online game review sites may be cutting back … more →
Emote Get £600K
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: Midlands games developers seem to be well ahead of the rest of the country in utilising funding offe … more →
Paper Protoypes
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: Game Career Guide posted a truly excellent article yesterday, on teaching game design without comput … more →
Monumental Expands
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: Nottingham, UK based Monumental Games are rapidly growing, having gone from 35 to 60 staff in the pa … more →
The Art of Digital Distribution
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: (Above: Preliminary artwork from the development of Braid) It’s unprecedented: The Daily Mail … more →
Indie Developer Talks To Pirates
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davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: Indie developer Cliff Harris posted a request for comments on his blog last week: “I want to k … more →
Global Game Jam
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: I got this in my inbox, and it’s definitely worth passing on. Game Jams have been a venerable … more →
Jonathan Blow: Slides Online
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: Many more of the slides from Games:EDU will be online soon, but for now I’d just like to draw … more →
Develop: Studio Sales
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: (The quotes in this post are paraphrased from my notes on this session) One of the sessions I went t … more →
Games:EDU Jonathan Blow
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: Jonathan Blow gave the closing keynote for us at Games:EDU on Tuesday. The most interesting point he … more →
Neil Young Leaves EA
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davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: N’Gai Croal broke news on Wednesday (early hours of Thursday GMT) that Neil Young has left EA … more →
Metanet on XBLA
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: I have a lot of time for Metanet, mostly because they did such stunning work with the flash version … more →
IGF Winners
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: I spent good deal of GDC on the Expo floor, talking to indie developers and playing their games. RPS … more →
A Tale of Two Kyles
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: Not only was the GDC session “A Tale of Two Kyles” one of the best named sessions we … more →
Amateur Versus Indie?
davidhayward wrote 1 year ago: It started with a GameSetWatch op ed: The gaming press is conflating two trends in game development … more →
