Level Designers wanted

Just a quick word to note that the Source Engine modification I’m working on, Nuclear Dawn, is looking for fresh level designers. If you’ve got a fair amount of experience with VHE and some kickass work to show, don’t hesitate to apply ! Development has been a bit slow at …

The city had nothing to lose

I’d like to share some of my favorite free (and legal) music I found on the web. Nathan Wiley is a pop/folk musician and singer from the great Canada, which over the past five years has released 3 albums on an indie label. His most recent album was released last …

Disarray

Cliff Bleszinski recently told MTV Multiplayer the following in an interview: I think the PC is just in disarray… what’s driving the PC right now is ‘Sims’-type games and ‘WoW‘ and a lot of stuff that’s in a web-based interface. You just click on it and play it. That’s the …

No Blog for Old Men

Five reasons why No Country for Old Men deserved to dominate Oscar night: Bardem: Take a sniff of Lecter, tone down the voice to bass level, add the worst hairdo since Prince became a symbol and you’ve got Anton Chigurgh, which might be the most ruthless villain in film history. …

Pay attention to the man behind the curtain

After a second playthrough, I must say Call of Duty 4 is hands-down one of the finest games you could buy in 2007. It really puts the focus on certain points which have an enormous impact on a player’s perception of the game, points where other game developers usually beat …

Autoviewer XML Generator

For my webdesign activities, I sometimes use the great Autoviewer, which is a handy flash application to quickly display images in a slideshow fashion. Recently, I implemented this in a small website for a company. They were going to add photo’s every day, and don’t know how to edit XML …

Steamworks

A big announcement was made by – ah well, it is my favorite game developer after all – the great Valve yesterday. They are going to release the back-end resources which have proven to work in their recent high-profile titles to other developers, for free. Steamworks will be a platform …

ModDB MOTY Results

The results are up ! Some surprises in there though. When it comes to indie games, there’s a strong move towards the ID Tech 3 engine, which was GPL’ed recently. It’s nice to see that because of ID’s engines are OpenGL-based most of these new games run multi-platform. In the …