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ARTICLES

  • Add Unity to your toolbox!
  • 03/06/2010

    Unity is a free to use 3D game engine that offers PC, Mac, and even Web Browser support.

  • Using Facebook to Promote Your Game
  • 03/06/2010

    Inside Social Games has a great article about covering how different companies have been using Free To Play facebook games to promote their boxed, XBLA or PC digital download titles.

  • Make 'em Up - Game Development Competition
  • 02/06/2010

    Game developer Turborilla have launched a new game development competition called "Make 'em Up' - we've got no idea if it will be any good, but we thought we'd tell you about it anyway!Looks like they're offering 65,000 Euros for a 50/50 split on the game.

  • Add PNGOptimiser to your toolbox!
  • 01/06/2010

    PNGOptimiser is a free tool that makes it easy to shrink the file size of your images without losing the quality.

  • DRM: The Programmers View
  • 01/06/2010

    I stumbled across a great article on terminally incoherent over the weekend all about the 'evils' of Digital Rights Management from the prospective of a programmer:"I make my living as a software developer, and this confuses people when they hear me bashing DRM.

  • The Indie Games Wiki
  • 01/06/2010

    The Independent Games Wiki is a collaborative website that aims to document everything related to indie games and the indie gaming scene (and also skateboarding).

  • Add Bulk Rename Utility to your toolbox!
  • 28/05/2010

    Never manually rename files again! Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming program for Windows that, as the name suggests, makes it easy to rename files and folders in bulk.

  • Self Publishing Lessons Learned
  • 28/05/2010

    GAMESbrief has a great series of articles from different developers about the lessons they have been learnt during the self publishing process.

  • Add Sculptris to your toolbox!
  • 27/05/2010

    Sculptris is a free 3D sculpting application from Dr.

  • Pixel - A Cool Pixel Art Documentary
  • 27/05/2010

    This is a fantastic 11 minute documentary exploring the merits and impact of pixel art, animation and chiptune music.

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