I'm Back!

I'm sure some of you have noticed that I haven't been very productive on the game development front lately. I've been taking a bit of a break from serious game development for a while, exploring other media and dealing with school.

It's Christmas break now and I have time to get serious about a game project. I'm also planning on participating in Ludum Dare 16, which is taking place December 11-13. Last time I did a Ludum Dare, Broken Cave Robot was the result. So if all goes well, I'll release two new games within the next little while. I'm also working on a redesign of my site, which should be finished sometime soon as well. Lots of progress ahead!

Meanwhile, Raocow has started a Let's Play of RunMan: Race Around the World! He previously did an LP of An Untitled Story and it was a blast to watch.

Elsewhere in the indie world, exciting things are happening! Shaltif's Sill, a C++ 2D game engine, is inches away from an alpha release. And Chevy Ray's FlashPunk engine is a Flash raster-game engine which is also close to a first release. Oh, and Unity is free now for indies (!!!).

Let's Play...!

I've been alerted to the fact that a man known as raocow is doing a Let's Play of An Untitled Story. What interests me most is that he has decided to do the playthrough blind. Because so much of An Untitled Story was designed to confuse/intrigue the player (hopefully in a good way), it'll be very interesting for me to watch and gauge his reactions to the game as he goes. He's also playing on Difficult first which... well, we'll see how that goes.

There has been other Let's Plays done of AUS, namely those by hateworkboy (whose screams of rage towards the end are hilarious) and CeilingNinja (whose LP I haven't gotten around to watching yet).