Archive for April, 2012
80s corporate name and logo
Notch has offered to add names of indie game studios to the world of his upcoming game 0x10c, apparently as fictional hi-tech companies. Megastructure Industries is already a tongue-in-cheek kind of name. It means to invoke Tsutomu Nihei’s fictional company Toha Heavy Industries, as well as give the feeling of a cyberpunk megacorp, with either millions of […]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: 80s, corporate logo, epic megagames, header, incorporated, letterhead, logo, megastructure industries, megastructure technologies, notch, ox10c, tsutomu nihei, twitter
Presenting FEX
This Friday, after five years, Fez is finally coming to households everywhere! … if you have an Xbox, of course. And if that wasn’t enough to give me a Feeling of Missing Out, a select elite who got the game early have already flooded the twitternets with reports of how wonderful the game is. My […]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: daniel, fex, fez, flash, flixel, game, music, polytron
GDC12 Pirate Kart games
Thanks to the efforts of ExciteMike (and the incredible Glorious Trainwrecks!), over 1000 games were collected for a “GDC Pirate Kart”! The concept is simple: getting to GDC is expensive, and putting up a booth is even more expensive. Making a pirate kart that would be displayed on the GDC floor enabled a conference […]
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