As an indie developer I’m always keeping an eye out for independent game competitions to participate in. Alas, a new breed of competition has appeared. This new breed doesn’t pay you in money, or critical reception like a real competition would. Instead, it pays you in vanity.
In their latest attempt to legitimize legally dubious actions, pirates have launched a website called The Pirate Google. They claim that the recent court verdict condemning The Pirate Bay, a popular search site for downloading copyrighted material without paying the copyright holders, should also be used to convict the owners of Google.
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Back in November I flew to San Diego to meet up with the rest of the Urbansquall team for our annual get together. This year’s theme was a game in a week. We rented out two hotel rooms, opened the connecting door in the middle, and spent five days doing non-stop game making. The fruit of our labor was a demo for a little game we called Bloody Fun Day. After another couple weeks of updating the game in my free time, we were ready to release it into the wild. And what happened then?
