Overgrowth Alpha 85
June 29th, 2010
Here is what is new in Overgrowth in the 85th weekly alpha. If you are confused what a weekly alpha is, or even what Overgrowth is, please read our fancy FAQ. Basically, we are developing a massive video game from the ground up -- we are able to do this completely independently by accepting preorders for the game before it's ...
Lugaru comes to the Amiga
June 27th, 2010
One of the awesome results of releasing the source code to Lugaru in the Humble Indie Bundle is that Lugaru now runs on AmigaOS 4 and AROS! An early AmigaOS 4 Lugaru build, courtesy of MickJT. If you're not familiar with the Amiga, make sure to read up on it on Wikipedia, and then read the AmigaOS 4 page ...
Wall Run and Climbing Video
June 25th, 2010
If you've been following our alpha posts, you've probably seen that a lot of cool new features have appeared in the builds like wall running and climbing. However, if you have yet to preorder Overgrowth, you're probably curious about how these features work. Today it is my pleasure to reveal a demonstration of what we have so ...
What do you want from Meebo?
June 23rd, 2010
As I mentioned earlier, I spent the past week with Anton in LA attending E3 and hanging out with other indie developers. Unfortunately, with all the commotion that was going on you might have noticed that I neglected some of my Wolfire Live Chat duties. However, it's been long enough (especially considering all the visitors from the Humble Indie ...
Overgrowth Alpha 84
June 22nd, 2010
Here is what is new in Overgrowth in the 84th weekly alpha. If you are confused what a weekly alpha is, or even what Overgrowth is, please read our fancy FAQ. Basically, we are developing a massive video game from the ground up -- we are able to do this completely independently by accepting preorders for the game before it's ...
Adding a health bar to Lugaru
June 21st, 2010
This is a guest blog post from MCMic, a new regular in the Wolfire IRC channel. I asked him to share some thoughts on the blog because he added one of the first new features to Lugaru since it went open-source: the oft-requested health bar. Read on for his introduction: Hi, I'm MCMic. I'm a French student in ...
Hosting the Humble Indie Bundle on App Engine
June 20th, 2010
Over the past year, I have invited a number of people to write guest blog posts on the Wolfire Blog (and would love to have more, contact us) -- but now the tables have turned and I was invited to write a post for someone else: The official Google App Engine blog! Yes, a screenshot of a web page. Click to ...