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ARTICLES

  • Breath of Death VII: the post mortem

  • 30/09/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=On 23 September Zeboyd Games released a post mortem of their game ‘Breath of Death VII: The Beginning’.

  • How indie games took on the world (and won)

  • 28/09/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=What makes a game Indie? We stumbled accross a few definitions from indie developers in an article from games radar posted back in 2009.

  • Minecraft – building success, one block at a time

  • 24/09/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=World of Minecrack?We’ve been playing Minecraft, we’ve been dreaming Minecraft, we love Minecraft and we’re very pleased to hear about its success - and it’s not even out of Alpha! In the past 24 hours the much loved Indie game has sold nearly 20,000 copies… And all we can say is “YEEEEHAW!”http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=Apparently sales were just over 4,000 copies per day (pretty awesome) when a payment server meltdown occurred last week.

  • IGN starts an 'Indie Open House'

  • 23/09/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=If you live anywhere near the San Francisco area and need some office space for your Indie team, IGN might be able to lend a hand.

  • Developers Go Indie, Everyone Wins

  • 27/08/2010

    Wired have posted interviews from three games industry veterans/teams who have left big publishers to go indie and are making it work.

  • FIB, Sophie Houlden and Ludum Dare 18

  • 26/08/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=We were going to come on here and post a nice time-lapse of a game being made at Ludum Dare 18, and we still are, but first we wanted to give kudos to Sophie Houlden.

  • Big List of Game Development Resources

  • 24/08/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=PixelProspector.com posted up a massive list of game development resources.

  • Indievision: self publishing on XBLIG

  • 19/08/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=Indie support website IndieVision have a great article about the pros and cons of self publishing through the Xbox Live Indie Games channel.From their article: "XBLIG is an open channel on the Xbox 360 that allows indie developers to sell their games through the Xbox 360 dash without requiring any platform holder approval.

  • Interview with Rock Paper Shotgun's Kieron Gillen

  • 16/08/2010

    http://forums.blitz1up.com/download/file.php?id=The Blitz 1UP team interview Kieron Gillen, director of Rock Paper Shotgun and author of the infamous How to Use and Abuse the Gaming Press blog, to find out what lights up his inbox.1.

  • Palm wants to give you $1m in prizes!

  • 09/08/2010

    The lovely folks at Palm are giving away prizes to reward the developers of the hottest apps for webOS.

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