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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Steve — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:02:25 +0000

This looks like it’s going to be great.

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XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

World of Goo Rapid Prototyping Framework

Steve — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:47:00 +0000

2D Boy, the folks behind “World of Goo”, have released a Rapid Prototyping Framework.

IAC Buys UrbanSpoon Based On Good Recommendations

Steve — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:35:56 +0000

IAC Buys UrbanSpoon Based On Good Recommendations .

Making Money with iPhone apps

Steve — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:31:57 +0000

Newsweek has a story about people who are making big bucks with iPhone apps.

Game Design Tour of World of Goo

Steve — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:04:52 +0000

Wolfire Blog has a great game design tour of World of Goo

Design Tour – World of Goo from David Rosen on Vimeo.

Really great observations. It’s a great game too. Just $15 on WiiWare. You can also get World of Goo for the Mac and PC

Do Something About Good Ideas Or Someone Else Will

Steve — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:36:57 +0000

Here’s an article entitled Good Ideas Have Lonely Childhoods. Go read it.

One Day’s Work Nets iRetroPhone $30,000 – So Far

Steve — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:17:15 +0000

Developer ObjectGraph built iRetroPhone, an iPhone app that lets you dial your iPhone as if it were an old-fashioned rotary dial phone in a day… first day sales at $2.99 each? 15,000 copies.

See the details.

Flixster Buys iPhone iApp for iUndisclosed iAmount

Steve — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:59:48 +0000

Techcrunch is reporting that Flixster bought an iPhone application called Movies.app last week, and re-released it last night. It’s basically an app that shows movie times, has maps to local theaters, and lets you watch movie trailers.

I’m a little surprised that Flixster went out and bought the App, when it could have been developed internally. Maybe they learned a thing or two from the Hasbro vs Scrabbulous fight – if you see a great program, buy it. Now Flixster has a popular app under it’s umbrella. Hasbro has a replacement app for Scrabbulous, but I hear it’s not as popular.

Update Techcrunch says that Scrabbulous has been taken down world-wide now…

The Story Behind Braid

Steve — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:26:36 +0000

Indie game developers always hope that the game they’re working will be the “next big thing”, and ‘Braid’ designer Johnathan Blow seems to have done just that.

It’s a platform game in which you manipulate time in various ways, going back and forth to correct mistakes and manipulate your environment to solve puzzles.

Braid is out now through XBox Live Arcade and will be out for the PC in the future.