A few of you know this already, but I've been having to keep it under wraps internetwise for the last month or two.  My company (I incorporated last month!) Spooky Squid Games is recieving a grant from the Ontario Media Developement Corporation to help us make the protoype for Guerrilla Gardening: Seeds of Revolution.    This is pretty much the ( Read more... )

I've been helping out to organize this new series of gaming and culture events as part of the newly formed Hand Eye Society, a loose organization trying to tie together all the random game stuff going on in the city - like T.O.Jam, the Artcade and Artsy Games Incubator.  Our first event is this Thursday and is being hosted by the mighty Jim Munroe ( Read more... )

Indiegames.com's has a bunch of best of indie games lists they've been posting over the last few days. The Best Freeware Arcade Games of 2008 list just went up and Night of the Cephalopods is on it! They asked me to write a bit about making the game, what's next etc. which was fun. Best Freeware Arcade Games of 2008

There are a bunch of other great ( Read more... )

The Artcade a few weeks ago went awesome and it has started to get some good press.  GameSetWatch has a particularly detailed review of the event and they had this to say about Night of the Cephalopods:

Night of the Cephalopods. This is probably one of the most exciting titles, because it does something that I can't think of any other games doing ( Read more... )

Following in redknot's footsteps I'm taking part in the new round of the Artsy Games Incubator. Each round author Jim Munroe, who organizes it, invites a group of artists to get together and learn how to make their own games.

We start with easy stuff like creating a level for Metanet's game N and then move on to more complex tools for creating our own ( Read more... )

One of my favourite games from this year's Independent Gameplay Summit at GDC just got announced, which means it now has a name: Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure.

This was the game with the amazing "It's Tea Time!" Big Ben -> giant mecha transformation sequence.

Kotaku has a press release with images on it.

I can't stop watching and re-watching the new Zelda Trailer, I'm loving the new Shadow of the Colossus/Miazaki inspired creature designs. Soo pretty.

So for those of you who don't check video game news blogs compulsively every 15 minutes. The Nintendo Wii is launching Nov 19th for $250 USD with one controller and Wii Sports. Also last night they launched the Japanese website, and of course I had to spend a good half browsing about it blindly at 3am ( Read more... )