From The Day the Music Died, I learned that Microsoft is pulling the plug on the servers used for verification of their MSN Music service. Even Wired repots that Microsoft is pulling support for MSN Music DRM.
So what happens on August 31, 2008? On that day, Microsoft will turn off the servers that they […]
RMS is known for his promotion of Free Software, or maybe more so for his disdain of non-Free, proprietary software. So it came as a surprise to many visitors to the GNU home page to see an announcement not asking for a call to arms against software patents or so-called DRM, but to say that […]
I hate Half-life 2.
I hate it because one night I found that I was still playing the game at 3AM, and I was supposed to be waking up in only a few hours to get ready for work. When you have to worry about using the words “tonight” or “today” to describe “now”, you stop […]
GameSetWatch reposted an article by Dr. Colin Anderson of Denki, creator of Denki Blocks. The article appeared on Gamasutra first. Opinion: Denki’s Anderson On Why Casual Game Cloning Makes Sense argues exactly the opposite of what many indie developers would claim: that allowing games to be legally cloned actually fosters innovation and is good for […]
PlayNoEvil Game Security News and Analysis wrote an interesting post regarding DRM as a broken system. Microsoft’s Digital Restrictions Management for Windows has been defeated. Again. Nothing too newsworthy about it.
What’s interesting is the following statement:
In fact, as I’ve noted before (repeatedly), DRM is built on a flawed model.
Traditional cryptographic security systems are designed to […]
The Free Software Foundation launched GPLv3 yesterday. You can read the wording of the license in its final form.
What does it mean for software developers and indie developers in particular? I don’t know. The GPLv2 was written over a decade ago, and this new version deals with software in the face of new technologies […]
Thanks to GameDaily, I learned about a British Board of Film Classification report about the reasons people play video games.
There were a number of findings that surprised me:
There is a sharp divide between male and female games players in their taste in games and how long they spend playing. Some of you […]
The other day I was thinking about Zorro. Frankly, I love stories about Zorro and The Three Muskateers. I have only recently started playing Dungeons and Dragons, and when I created my character, I decided that he should be a fighter with high dexterity and speed. He also gets a cloak and […]
It has been about a year since I first formed my LLC, and I have already submitted my tax return. Without going into specifics, GBGames, LLC posted losses in its first year. Looking back, I can say that one of my problems was that I didn’t do a very good job of managing […]
I recently finished writing an article called What an Indie Needs to Know About Copyright.
I wrote it because it still amazes me how many independent game developers do not know about copyright. Either they overestimate what it is that copyright does for them, or they underestimate what it does for other people. […]
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