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I just discovered a very useful interview over at destructoid. You can read how Moonpod answers questions about independend game development. Moonpod is a team consisting of only 2 people from the uk. Their famous titles Starscape und Mister Robot are award winning not only in the indie gaming scene.

They discuss the future of the game industry, marketing pain and development times. The interview is rather long but you can learn a lot, if you are interested what the life of an indie is all about.

Have fun with it!

Today just a small news about our own game. We of cause not lay back after we won the casual game contest. With the positive power of this success, we worked hard on the completion of the snowlevels for the game. Here is a mini screenshot for you, to get a feeling.

The snowlevel are pretty funny, because you can slide on ice, push snowman around or take a slayride just to name a few possibilities. But you also have to watch out for evil snowman, seals, penguins wich you must avoid in order to finish a level. Now its not taking long till the next and last theme for the casual game is finished. Be patient - its worth it!

Hey there, i just decided to compile a linklist for gamedev that helps the beginner, intermediate or even pro users to find helpful ressources for independent game development. I will always try to keep this list up to date and eliminate old/outdated links. Please dont worry, that i can not include all links, i want to keep it as clean and helpful as possible without too much confusing content.
It is not meant for the 3DGS A6/A7 user exclusively, but for everyone who wants to dive into game development and gather knowledge/tools. I also list freeware/cheap tools first, because those are meant for the indies. Note that all tools, links are tested and recommended by me and not just copied from somewhere. They are meant as a basic toolset or starting point, so you cant go wrong if you learn to use and master the things listed here!

You can find this link always under the “Freebies” Section and the sidebar, be shure to bookmark it and let me know if i missed/missspelled something, as this list will constantly grow. Thanks!

Remember: Not the tools make a great game, but the one(s) behind them!

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A new job board, www.indiegamejobs.com, just opened up that caters to the independent game developer. The site allows you to post jobs or searchthrough job categories including 3d, textures, programming, and level design. You can evaluate artists by previewing their work and reading feedbackratings from other users. You can also post and browse resumes.Here are some of the features listed on the site:

-Completely Free
-Easy to use Web 2.0 interface
-Intuitive rating system
-Profile section that supports images and links
-Messages Area
-Resumes Section

The good thing about this service is, that it is completely free of charge! Also note that it is not limited to 3DGS, you can find any good team member worldwide. So if you search for the next John Carmack for your team, go ahead and register now.

According to this thread and this picture. The logo from atari as well as the internet adress is inside the latest beta of lite-c. So whats the deal? Sold conitec something to atari? Did Atari sponsor lite-c? I dont know. Maybe the whole thing is just a hoax, but if not this could be very good news! Tell me if you can confirm this picture please, i cant download it at the moment.

Update: Doug posted this official link more will be available there soon!

Heelx wrote a nice free wrapper DLL for the FMOD audio engine. You can get it here! You may ask yourself, “Why do i need this plugin?”. The answer is quite simple. It does enhance sound playback, not only is it faster than standard hardware sound acceleration but also it has great features such as internet streaming, audio cd playback, spectral analysis and so on.

The only thing you need to know is that this wrapper allows you to use FMOD wich is free for freeware products, costs 100$ for shareware authors and 6000$ if you plan on using it in a commercial project. Word of Warcraft for example uses it. So grab this for your next freeware project or big commercial MMORPG!
Here is a quote from Heelx about his plugin:

FMOD is a cross-platform audio engine, which makes it easy for you to use current audio technologies in your software. No other audio engine offers such a rich and up-to-date platform support. FMOD isn’t only available for the Windows 32 bit system, but also for 11 other systems, among them e.g. Windows 64bit (AMD64), Linux, Macintosh and all game consoles available on the market. FMOD is being and was used by over one hundred commercial games, for example in “World of Warcraft” or “Flat Out”. With the Lite-C FMOD wrapper plugin DLL for A7 / Lite-C, all of those features will be enabled for you – no matter which edition of the A7 engine you own or if you „just“ use the free Lite-C distribution.