News

Winter Competition: YoYo Games is sponsoring $1,000 as the grand prize for their latest contest. Theme is 'Winter', and the final submission date is December 23rd 2007. Two runner-ups are entitled to $500 and $250 respectively. [contest rules, current submissions]

- The game should not change the screen resolution and should run in a window.
- A member is allowed to submit at most two games in each competition.
- You can submit a game you created in the past but only if it is not already published on YoYo Games.

Indie Game Developer Showcase: ECD Systems is selling a collection of entries from their recent competition on DVD for $7.95.

Fedora Spade 3: The latest chapter in the Fedora Spade series should be out soon. [Episodes 1 and 2]

Indie Games Group: I + is a group on Opera with discussions centered around indie games.

Exile: Ovine by Design's Exile remake is out.

Platine Dispositif: Murasame drop a hint about his upcoming Comiket release. [Engage to Jabberwock mirror, map, article]

Hot Soup Processor: HSP (a Japanese equivalent of the popular Game Maker) is available in English. [source: Null1024]

Axiom Overdrive: A couple of screenshots from Reflexive's Axiom Overdrive can be found at it's official website.

Articles

MarkUp Issue 9: MarkUp issue 9 (the official GM magazine) is now available for download.

Acidbomb: David Galindo shares his experience of selling a commercial Game Maker production.

Interviews

InstantAction: GameSpot interviews Josh Williams of GarageGames. [source: Indie Informer]

Puzzle Quest: Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield interviews the COO of D3, Yoji Takenaka.