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Last weekend, indie game website Game Jolt hosted its first Jam. This differentiated from its competitions by dropping the competitive aspect and focusing on getting developers to share their work regularly and, in general, have fun doing it. Most participants set up Livestream accounts and broadcast live video footage of them working on their entries. […] More

Received an e-mail today advising me that issue 9 (March-April) of the commercial Indie Game Mag had been released and was available to download. One change since the last edition – they have changed their re-use message from a Creative Commons license that enabled anyone to freely share the magazine to a copyright statement.  As FredFredrickson commented […] More

The final issue of GMIndie magazine has been released.  Download PDF (1.5MB) To quote from the welcome message at the start of the issue “We are constantly working on multiple projects at once. It’s fun for the first few minutes. Then it gets tiring” – reminds me of something I may have mentioned last month. […] More

YoYo Games moderator RedChu has published the first issue of Overbyte which “will try to be a monthly magazine”. Unlike many other Game Maker magazines Overbyte does not take itself too seriously – a good idea of what to expect comes for the very first page, headed “OHAI”, which states: “This being our first issue, […] More

Note: This review was originally written for GMTech Issue 17 back in September ’09. However, the GMTech website is down and no news on it has been heard of for several months so I’m sharing it here. Do you ever play a game which is really, REALLY addictive? As in, you stop playing after five […] More