The Bard of Valiant posted about a note-worthy RogueLike – an anime-ish, graphical RogueLike with some network capabilities. It even looks accessible to boot too (something most rogue-likes are nefariously bad at)! Who says you can’t teach an old dog new trick? Old genres can be brought back to life again!
The Flagship has sunk – the ship in question here refers to Flagship Studios and how even ex-Blizzard greats could make mistakes. At GDC 2009, there a session which goes through at great length what independent game developers could learn from the mistakes of this sinking of a titanic proportion.
CoolBeat and me collaborated on ClickTris; I was responsible for the original game concept and CoolBeat expanded on it and implemented it using Game Maker 7. The result? Watch the video below