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Author Archives: Jana

The Sun Is Deadly – Post Mortem

Don’t worry. It’s still TRI we’re working on! But together with four other developers we did a jam in April to make games AND raise some money for our main projects. It seems that all of our games are initially made for game jams. And so it happened with The Sun Is Deadly, too. The first version of our vampire [...]

Warum spielen Frauen nur Kram?

Dieser Blogpost ist eine Antwort auf Scheinproblems “Frauen die Computer spielen… “-Posting. Er war als kurzer Kommentar zu ihrem Text gedacht, irgendwie wurde dann aber mehr daraus. ——————- Über das Thema denke ich auch ziemlich oft nach – Frauen und Computerspiele. Obwohl ich mir immer noch nicht sicher bin, wie man als Frau eigentlich einen explizit weiblichen Gamerblog führt – [...]

Ludum Dare #23 games I really enjoyed

The 48h game jam Ludum Dare celebrates its 10th anniversary! And the party is huge – about 1400 games where made within 48 hours (competition) or three days (jam). I try to give you a start with the games I really enjoyed. They are presented in no specific order and if you think I forgot some of the hidden pearls [...]

Day 2 and 3 – Amaze Indie Connect

Missed Day 1 of our Berlin adventure? Click here! After I failed at being more business-like and professional, we really enjoyed talking to all the Indies. Especially what they are working on, where their secret jelly glass filled with coins is to be found and, of course, how their business works. This whole Indie thing was some kind of conference [...]

Quo Vadis + A.Maze Indie Connect Day 1

All game lovers, business suits and socializers had their reason to be the whole week in Berlin, since the Deutsche Gamestage (German Games Days) took place from April, 24th until the 28th. This event covers the Quo Vadis (business meeting and developer conference), the first German Indie Festival – A.Maze Indie Connect, the Lara Award (German Games Award) and a [...]

Indie Buskers Post Mortem

Indie Buskers – Yet another game jam? Introduction Rock, Paper, Shotgun titled “2012 will be the year of the gamejam” and it absolutely is! Ludum Dare has more entries than ever before, the Global Game Jam is in the Guiness Book of Records for being the biggest jam ever and Anna Anthropy argues in her book “Rise of the Video [...]

Indie Distribution Platforms that are not Steam

(The original posting is in German, on Indie-Inside.) Foreword – Sale Week Last week (March 10th to 18th) the annual 7-Day-Roguelike Challenge took place – the event for which Pitman was developed last year. That’s why our yellow dwarf celebrated his birthday that week, and because the 7DRL Challenge always gets some attention, we decided to link it together to [...]

Me Against The Mutants – finished

The 7-Day-Roguelike-Challenge is finished for us and you can now get mindfucked up with infinity, bunnies and mutants: Play it HERE! (There definitely will be a more detailed writing about the game, but for now we need to sleep, eat and see something “they” call the “sun”.) BTW, the game was part of the PITMAN  Birthday Sale Week!