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Archive for January, 2009

Thousander Club Update: January 26th

Posted by GBGames on January 26th, 2009

For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 576 (previous three years) + 53.25 (current year) = 629.25 / 1000
Game Ideas: 775 (previous three years) + 3 (current year) = 778 / 1000
I had another fairly productive week, but I had to take massive action at the end to have something to show for it. [...]

Thousander Club Update: January 19th

Posted by GBGames on January 19th, 2009

For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 576 (previous three years) + 38.25 (current year) = 614.25 / 1000
Game Ideas: 775 (previous three years) + 0 (current year) = 775 / 1000
I think this past week has been my most productive week! Since I’ve released Walls for Windows and GNU/Linux, I’ve been interested in [...]

GBGames Releases Walls!

Posted by GBGames on January 13th, 2009

While many of you read the blog, you may be unaware of my main site at www.GBGames.com. If you go there now, you’ll see a new link to my recently released Walls!

It’s a very simple yet fun game that lets you practice your mouse-fu! To play, move the mouse cursor towards the goal while [...]

Thousander Club Update: January 12th

Posted by GBGames on January 12th, 2009

For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 576 (previous three years) + 18.25 (current year) = 594.25 / 1000
Game Ideas: 775 (previous three years) + 0 (current year) = 775 / 1000
I spent this past weekend working on my submission for MiniLD #6. The rules were pretty cool: each participant will be making a [...]

2009 IGF Finalists Announced

Posted by GBGames on January 8th, 2009

The 2009 Indie Games Festival finalists have been announced. The competition has been getting tough!
It’s good to see Jason Rohrer’s name among the finalists, and it is appropriate that his entry is nominated for the Innovation Award. Rohrer was the developer of Gravitation, an artistic game.
But there are other innovative games in the running, and [...]

Thousander Club Update: January 5th

Posted by GBGames on January 5th, 2009

For this week’s Thousander Club update:
Game Hours: 576 (previous three years) + 6 (current year) = 582 / 1000
Game Ideas: 775 (previous three years) + 0 (current year) = 775 / 1000
The first week of 2009 was a short one, and I’m off to a slow start. I spent the majority of my time [...]

Join The Thousander Club in 2009

Posted by GBGames on January 5th, 2009

In the last three years, I’ve been participating in The Thousander Club. Scott Hsu-Storaker started in back in 2006 after reading my blog post called Action vs Waiting, Practice vs Talent, which focused in part on the idea that to become an expert on a topic, you need to put in a lot of practice. [...]