It’s a great day and time to be an independant game developer. There’s a player and developer backlash against the antiquated notion that you need a team of hundreds, a budget of millions, and a timeline of years to create a video game. As the audience for electronic gaming widens, more and more [...] Keep Reading

The TOJam Arcade is tonight! TOJam Arcade Friday June 6th 7PM - Midnight The Blue Moon Pub Queen St. East (near Broadview) Save your quarters - admission’s free! View Larger Map 37 games … 157 developers … some of the hottest, sweatiest nerds in Toronto gaming … and ladies, they’re siiingle!!’. (Yes. All of them.) Keep Reading

The first art book released by French MMORPG team Ankama has been a staple in our collection since we were lucky enough to snag one at E3 a few years ago. According to Worlds in Motion.biz, Ankama has launched their closed beta for Wakfu, the follow-up to Dofus. Due to my addictive personality, i’ve avoided [...] Keep Reading

Pagination is a navigation style where you have a bunch of content that won’t fit on one screen, so you give your user BACK and NEXT arrow keys to flip through “pages” displaying the content. In many ways, it’s preferable to a scrolling navigation, because you don’t have to fill the box with all [...] Keep Reading

i was just reading an interview on the Worlds In Motion biz site with Jamie Ottilie, whose studio is set to release a kid-targeted MMO called Freaky Creatures. In the interview, Ottilie crows: The initial creatures come with 50 different parts, 20 powers and 4 objects that can be placed into the creature’s lair. The variety of [...] Keep Reading