Category Indie Games

Winnipeg Envy

This week is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which I, sadly, am not attending.  An unfortunate side effect of being a poor grad student is the fact that I have to pick and choose which conferences I’ll be…

Money Making Game from Legend of Zelda

Money Making Game

I got a survey about game development in my inbox today.  The questions were mainly focused on economics and employment, but they made me think.  Of course, as an academic, my research deals primarily with the videogame industry, so I…

'Splosion Man

Attack of the Clones

About three weeks ago, Capcom released a game called MaXplosion for the iPhone. In the game, the protagonist runs about a science lab, blowing himself up as a means of locomotion. Sounds inventive, right? It would, if it weren’t for…