2008 May 12 | GBGames - Thoughts on Indie Game Development

Still Can’t Buy A Theory of Fun for Game Design

By GBGames, on May 12th, 2008%

Sometime back I was trying to buy Raph Koster’s A Theory of Fun for Game Design. It’s been sold out at every book store I’ve visited, including Amazon. Hopefully a new printing will be made soon.

While looking at the website, I noticed I could order the book through O’Reilly.com. It didn’t say it was . . . → Read More: Still Can’t Buy A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Thousander Club Update: May 12th

By GBGames, on May 12th, 2008%

For this week’s Thousander Club update:

Game Hours: 409.25(previous two years) + 74.25 (current year) = 483.5 / 1000
Game Ideas: 710 (previous two years) + 35 (current year) = 745 / 1000

I’m still trying to eliminate dependencies in my custom-built libraries. I was using libSDL 1.2.11, but someone complained that PulseAudio support was missing, so I . . . → Read More: Thousander Club Update: May 12th

Looks like I won't be using Echofon anymore: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5081/reviews/ 02:23:59 PM September 01, 2010 from web
Mmm, hair of the dog for breakfast! http://twitpic.com/2k3v1f 01:39:45 AM September 01, 2010 from Twitpic
Whew. Just wrote about 5,000 words across two articles for a newsletter in a couple of days. One more article to go. 07:43:50 PM August 31, 2010 from txt
Yeah, sure. Go ahead and raise the TV volume. Because everyone in the waiting room wants to hear your show. 01:25:54 PM August 31, 2010 from txt
GBGames' Blog update My Game Design Prototype Toolbox http://bit.ly/9br7xf 05:30:03 PM August 30, 2010 from twitterfeed
The planet is safe for another day. Good night. 02:59:16 AM August 30, 2010 from txt
Dear Web Sites: Please don't resize my web browser for me. I use multiple tabs, and you're not that special. 06:23:52 PM August 28, 2010 from Echofon
About to watch Scott Pilgrim. Wee! 02:44:30 AM August 28, 2010 from txt
@macshome I use vim, C++, and libSDL. 10:01:59 PM August 27, 2010 from Echofonin reply to macshome
@TheOfficeTroll Thanks! I'm quite pleased with it. B-) 07:19:15 PM August 27, 2010 from Echofonin reply to TheOfficeTroll

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