Star Command playable at PAX East

Star Command, the ambitious mobile sci-fi RPG assisted by the Kickstarter phenomenon, will be playable at PAX East.

"The PAX demo is gonna be a playable version of combat," Jordan Coombs, designer and art director at developer Warballoon told us. "We want everyone to get a chance to mess around with it and starting a new game from scratch can take a bit."

The Warballoon team will also give a talk at the Kickstarter booth about mobile development and how it's changed their designs, along with what they've learned since starting the project.Gallery: Star Command (iOS/Android)
(Continue Reading...)

How Resident Evil 2 helped Keiji Inafune become the indie dev he is today

Back in the mid-90s, now acclaimed Japanese developer Shinji Mikami was passionately toiling away on the first game in a soon-to-be hit franchise: Resident Evil. It was to be published by Capcom, but the company had reservations about the new intellectual property -- so much so that it nearly canned the project outright. Ex-Capcom global head of production Keiji Inafune recalled his side of the story during an impassioned GDC 2012 speech yesterday.

Inafune claims he watched from the outside as Capcom's support for Resident Evil faded, and while he worked on other titles within the same company. Mikami fought for the fledgling game, eventually getting it published for Sony's PlayStation. The rest, of course, is zombie-ridden history.

When Capcom began work on a sequel, Inafune says he... (Continue Reading...)


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45