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Guide to Making Your First Game
Game development has exploded over the last few years, and now it seems like everyone is making a video game. You've got big studios full of hundreds of people. You've got small teams making incredible games. There are more people in independent game development than ever. This is an amazing thing, because everyone brings their unique experience and sensibilities to game design. The more people who we can get making games and sharing their individual voices, the more we will see games evolve in new and exciting directions.
Believe it or not, this can involve you.
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Top 10 Games of 2013
I wrote a rather unconventional top 10 of 2013 list for giantbomb that is made up entirely of free games you can go play right now if you want.
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I'm Dying My Hair Because Of A Videogame
"There was this girl. She was a senior and she smoked and she seemed like the only other girl who felt out of place in our small hometown of 1,000 people. We became close over Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, a plethora of nerdy hobbies, and being the only two queers in town (that we knew of). I could never get her into my riot grrrl music though she’d support my bands so many times even if I was nervous singing in front of her. So many teenage nights were spent in the passenger seat of her car, smoking cigarettes and talking about how badly we should be in a band together until the day we went to get her a drum kit. Every night I spent with her I’d have to worry about getting red hair dye on things or her, lest we be found out, since when you sweat it causes bright red dye to run. She did help me redye it once or twice, which proved a good cover story for that. We got tattoos together, sneaking away to NYC on a train when I was 17. The most important things, the things I remember closely, are these small specific points in time that I felt so very alive with her."
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Let's Literally Break Pokemon Red
An internet friend was doing a Let's Play of Pokemon Blue to specifically show off glitches in the system. I asked if I could contribute a more literal interpretation.
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Indie Game: The Mixtape
A call to action to produce "mixtapes" of free indie games and share them with other people the way people have done for decades with music and playlists.
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