Games are Art, here’s my example

July 2, 2010

in Business

So, Roger Ebert finally accepts that he “…was a fool for mentioning video games in the first place.”  But, he isn’t convenced that some game, somewhere might be art, just leaves that it is possible, maybe.

Here’s a game that I have no doubt is art:  Every Day The Same Dream

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Funding a Movie

May 20, 2010

in Business, Projects

I am funding a movie!

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LD17

April 22, 2010

LD #17 is upon the Earth.  I will fight this menace to the doom.  Follow along or participate: Ludum Dare #17

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Goodbye Shoppe

March 31, 2010

I knew when Amazon.com bought Reflexive that my game shoppee’s days where numbered. It is a big reason why I left Vermont and found a “real” job.  Today, my instincts where proven correct, by this email:
 

Dear Valued Affiliate,
I wanted to write to you today to thank you for your participation in the Game Center Solution Affiliate Program [...]

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SteamBirds

March 10, 2010

Imagine if someone updated that old Atari combat game.  You know, the one with the planes flying in circle and hiding behind the pixel cloud.  Mix in a story about cold fusion, make it turn based and you’d have: Steam Birds The interface is well done, and a joy to interact with.   The story [...]

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PAX BRITANNICA

March 9, 2010

Found this wonderful space strategy game called Pax Britannica.  It’s more of a demo, but good for a few minutes of fun.  I like the interesting trade off between time, the need for superior numbers and the fighter’s need to be launched in large groups to be effective.  The game is a the results GAMMA IV [...]

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Mini Ludum Dare #16: Constraints

February 19, 2010

I’ll be particpating this weekend in the Mini Ludum Dare #16, who’s theme is Constraints.  As usually I’ll run the dev diary on Ludum Dare’s site under the name MrPhil.  For this, contest I’ll be using Python + Pygame.  It will be my first stabe at Python or Pygame.  I hope they live up to their reputation of [...]

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The Money Pit Dilemma and Sunk Cost

February 2, 2010

Imagine, there is a treasure worth $10 million buried at the bottom of a 150 foot hole.  It was put there by someone who does not want anyone else to have it.  There are lots of tricks, traps and other things that make getting to money next to impossible.  Let’s say you have already spend [...]

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Shoppe is back up

January 26, 2010

The Mr. Phil Games Shoppe’s database crashed horrible this weekend.  I tried several different ways to get it back in operations, but wasn’t able to truly fix it.  I’m not sure what happened, but I suspect someone was up to no good.  The shoppe is back up, but I think it’ll crash again eventually.

The shoppe simple isn’t worth [...]

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Whitney Hess

January 19, 2010

I discovered http://whitneyhess.com/blog/ thanks to http://www.gaminghorror.net/ today and watched her presentation Evangelizing Yourself.  It’s interesting, and I don’t disagree with anything she said, but I do wonder if it really applies to everyone.  I think programmers and game designers do blog a lot about their field, but I also think evangelizing is a goal in itself.  Writing isn’t easy [...]

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