Top 10 Indie Video Games for the Holidays
December 19th, 2008
Here are some kick ass independent games to play while you are waiting in-between alphas of Overgrowth! Why should you check out indie games? I think Ron Carmel of 2D Boy says it best: "The video game medium has been in a bit of a rut for about a decade. Many truly great games have come out in the last ...
Overt Ops continues!
December 18th, 2008
Hey guys, here is a small update to Overt Ops. In case you don't know what this is, the idea is basically that Wolfire is a tiny, indie game company. However, the world is a huge place. While we can contact most of the video game magazines and websites in the US, we don't even know the first ...
Overgrowth Alpha 5 unleashed!
December 17th, 2008
Hey guys, you can get the fifth weekly alpha of Overgrowth in the usual place! If you haven't preordered yet, I hear that this week is the best week to preorder Overgrowth. New this week are a bunch of new models, textures and art from Aubrey. We will probably be showing them off soon in dedicated blog posts with ...
Gish design tour
December 15th, 2008
This third design tour is about Gish by Cryptic Sea. Be sure to click here to watch this in HD! Press the triangle button for captions (download transcript) I asked Edmund McMillen (co-creator of Gish) what he thought, and he said, "I thought it was a well thought out critique of the things that made Gish an important indie game ...
6 Tips For Game Devs (from the Gaming SDForum)
December 15th, 2008
Hey guys, I recently attended a conference about the video game industry: the Gaming SDForum. During the conference I had the chance to hear the inside scoop from a lot of industry professionals. I left with 6 major takeaways that I think can help every game developer. 1. Make your game fun! This was opening speaker, Bernie Stolar's, main ...
Wolfire now accepts Google Checkout
December 14th, 2008
Hey guys, I know a lot of you have avoided PayPal and have been contacting us on AIM, etc. for ways to buy Overgrowth without using it. It's frustrating because for a long time, PayPal has been the only way to order Overgrowth and we know that a lot of you guys have been holding off because of anti-PayPal ...
First Building in Overgrowth
December 12th, 2008
Aubrey was showing me some of the new assets he has been working on as of late. He has been making some awesome blocks, pillars, walls, roofs, and other architecture. He was showing me how they can be put together in a number of ways to make a house using Phillip's awesome map editor (post on that coming soon ...