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Joystiq E3 Party Playtest Metrics and Pics

The Joystiq Post-E3 indie game party was great and it seemed like fun was had by everybody!  Thanks a ton to Joystiq for putting it on!  It was good to see a bunch of cool indie games in attendance, like Monaco, Retro City Rampage, Z0MB1ES, and Q.U.B.E. Hopefully this tweet by party-goer Andrew Schmidt is […]

Play SpyParty after E3 on Friday June 10th in LA

Update: Okay, Joystiq has finally posted the full details.  It’s at the La Cita Bar in downtown LA, from 5:30pm to 9pm on Friday, June 10th.   The other games being shown include Monaco, Nidhogg, Retro City Rampage, Q.U.B.E., and two unannounced projects, one from Harmonix and one from Ska Studios.  It should be a lot […]

Content Package Subsystem Working

Hallelujah, task #354 of 13,8771 for the Early-Access Beta seems to be working! The past few days I’ve been working on a package system, so I can bundle up all the content files for SpyParty into a single compressed blob, rather than having a zillion files in a directory hierarchy.  This is good for load […]

Indie Panel at UC Santa Cruz on May 26th

We just finalized this:  come see Alex Neuse (BIT.TRIP Runner, Beat, etc. etc.), Jonathan Blow (The Witness, Braid), and me at UC Santa Cruz on May 26th at noon o’clock, in the Media Theater (room TM M110).  UCSC’s campus maps are bad enough that it’s actually easier to just give you the latitude and longitude […]

Location, Location, Location

It is true: I should be working on the game right now. But I couldn’t resist more beta data!  Here are 5,871 geolocated SpyParty Early-Access Beta IP addresses: A few things of interest: I started to color code the points by the time they registered, and then I thought I’d do a gif animation over […]