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            The Ramblings of an old Games Developer...

"It is very easy to get a lot of people to almost give you a lot of money."

- Stephen Clark Wilson
About the process of getting a publisher to fund your game.
Posted 2008/06/23 22:44:56 by Jake Simpson

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Links Page


Friends Sites
  • BJ West
    My good friend BJ West, 3d Modeler extraordinare and now set builder extraordinaire.
  • Asia Carrera's website
    Well, I stole some of pics, seems only fair to put up a link here:)
  • Cliffy B
    Cliff Bleszinski is a long term and very well known Epic level designer. He's also a fashion pimp of the worst kind:) What up 'ho?
  • Mr. James Monroe Home Page
    James in another programmer mate of mine.
  • LevelLords Web Site
    my friend Mr. Level Lord. He's out at Ritual, and is completely insane. Have fun there.
  • Lowbrow!
    Well, this doesn't appear to be updated anymore. Shame, it was rather good.
  • SixSixFive
    Silliness and weirdness abound, but in a good way.
  • The Register
    A daily read for me, since it's both from home, and also covers lots of IT stuff that other sites don't.
  • Why Is This?
    Kinda of a stream of consciousness. You may well recognize the format:)
  • Writers of the Lost Ark
    Kenn Hoekstra and Bob Loves writers website. This one has loads of stuff worth reading on it.

Gaming Blogs
  • Brenda Brathwaite
    Brenda is a game designer and boy, she knows her stuff.
  • Black Company
    Chris Chapman's small indie company based in Scotland.
  • Scott Jennings
    Scott has lots of stuff to say about everything. A regular updater!
  • Wolfgang Engel
    Wolfgang is, along with Tom F., one of the premier graphics guys out there. He's forgotten more about shaders than I will ever know.
  • Jamie Fristrom
    My Good Friend Jamie Fristroms game dev blog - he's the CTO of Torpex games, a company very much in the same space I'd like to get into.
  • Tom Forsyth
    Tom's my mate and one of the premier graphics gurus on the face of the earth. Plus he's funny.
  • Japanmanship
    A veeery interesting blog from a UK games developer working in Japan
  • Mainly about Games
    FreakyZoid is a video game designer from the UK who has been in the industry for 'quite a while' now
  • Mundinator
    John Mundy, designer for Perpetual.
  • Cory Ondrejka
    Cory was my old boss at Linden Lab
  • Random Encounters
    Vox is a designer who has lots to say on the current state of MMO's etc.
  • 7 Degrees
    Tony Albrecht of Pandemics blog. Another jobbing programmer like me.
  • Stacey Diana
    EX-Designer for Midway (sadly). Loads of concept art!
  • T=Machine
    Adam Martins blog - he's an mmo engineer working for NCSoft.
  • Harvey Smith
    Good old Harvey. His Blog.
  • Bruce On Games
    Lots of insightful stuff about developing games here...
  • Clint Hocking
    Clint is the lead designer on Crysis 2
  • David Jaffe
    Love him or hate him, the creator of God of War and Calling All Cars has his own blog!
  • DeadRock
    Alex's thoughts on game development.
  • Rich Carlson
    Rich is one of the people behind Digital Eels success with Weird Worlds, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space and Soup du Jour
  • SnipeHunter
    An acquaintance from a forum I frequent, Snipehunter is a developer with things to say.
  • Chris Survival Horror
    Another acquaintance who runs a blog on horror games.
  • Justin Chin
    My old friend Justin Chin's blog on his design stuff. He is one clever dude.
  • Mischief and Soap
    Maciej Sinilo's blog (he's in Warsaw dontchaknow)
  • qDot
    My good mate Kyle Machulis - he of the Teledildonics fame.
  • Unobscured View
    Dan Merchants blog on making games and how we can do it better.
  • Raph Kosters MMO Blog
    Raph is making MultiVerse, a potential Second Life competitor. Good luck to him!
  • Tom Plunkets Agile
    Tom is a Dev Friend who is Mr. Agile. He has many thoughts on it, and these are some of them.
  • Jon Jones
    Outsourcing consultant extraordinaire!
  • Mattias Worch
    Mattias works for Factor 5 as a designer.
  • The Pickford Bros
    Ste and his brothers thoughts on Game Development
  • Rob Fermier
    Rob works as a programmer for Ensemble.

Humor
  • Zero Punctuation
    Incredibly funny Australian reviewer who never pauses for breath. Not Safe For Work, lots and lots of bad words.
  • UK Resistance
    Sega loving and Sony hating very funny gaming based website.
  • Penny Arcade
    Possibly the funniest cartoon about the gaming world around. Certainly makes me laugh.
  • Sean Baby
    You MUST read some of the Probe entries. You'll be laughing for a few days over those.
  • SomethingAwful
    Mr. Lowtax's efforts at entertainment. Worth a peruse if you have some spare time:)

Gaming News Sites
  • The Adrenaline Vault
    This one often has some good articles on it.
  • Blues News
    Where would a link page be without this one?
  • Evil Avatar
    Another site that just HAS to be linked to
  • ExtremeTech
    I have a very very long article up there which is essentially a re-hash of Anatomy of a Video game brought up to date.
  • HomeLan
    JCal has finally done his own thing.
  • Joystiq
    Great humor based reporting site. Lots of video:)
  • PCZone
    This is where the fair Rhianna works.
  • VoodooExtreme
    Apache and Co will entertain you with their own brand of news reporting.

Online Games you should try
  • Laser Reflections
    This one made me think for a while..
  • Collapse
    Thanks to Rhianna for linking this to me. I've lost countless hours to this one.

Misc.
  • Woot!
    This is great! One sale a day, usually gadgety - always a low price. Look out for the bag o'crap!