I know some of the guys at Introversion; they're the nicest bunch you could ever hope to meet.  Yeah, they made mistakes (something which Paul Eres seems to be incredibly unforgiving about) but, in my mind, it takes a real strength of character to admit when you’ve been wrong

I really hope everything picks up for them. Subversion looks incredible.

I WAS.

I slept like 2 hours the night before, I didn't win my IGF award, and I was about to eat a really sketchy cheese burger from Denny's.  IT WAS A LONG DAY.

Denny's gave me the fear.

However it was the Sony party that made the fear real.  Even free booze couldn’t improve Sony's rotten attempt at fun-mongering

Maybe we should start our own IGF Europe independent of the GDC Europe... 

This years London's Games Festival is going to have a some indie events, it's still early days but we might be helping put something together ...

scoooby?

they make you not breathe

and, in my case, cry like a little girl.

We're all moving to Phoenix.

I'm seriously considering it.

Move to London, it's awesome because everything is old and everyone is british

Also, we do hobo properly: 




PS: Thanks Adam, I wont miss you also - bastard!

Cactus kissed my neck - I'll never wash again...

Man, that sucks...

Dont worry about the Greyhound, I did a 50 hour stint on one a few years back - it was boring as hell and completely uneventful

Great seeing you guys at GDC – can’t wait for next year 

I'm staying at the hotel union square also...

Everyone from Beatnik is coming - hopefully the rest of the team should manage to snag reservations

Yup the game is XNA. If you run the setup.exe (not the MSI) it should detect and install .NET 3.5 and XNA 3.0 redist

As we found out last night. If you have XNA 2.0 installed setup.exe sometimes doesnt detect that you need an upgrade

Links

XNA 3.0 redist : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6521D889-5414-49B8-AB32-E3FFF05A4C50&displaylang=en

.NET 3.5 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6

Cheers

[What is it?]

EDIT: current download link is down- please go to www.plainsightgame.com/beta for a list of mirrors.


Hi Folks,

We've just launched the open beta of our first game Plain Sight.



What is it?

Plain Sight is a multiplayer arcade games that uses death as a tactic, not a punishment.
You’re a little robot. You start with one point. You get more points by killing more robots with your sword. As you get more points you get bigger, brighter, faster and better.
However, you only get to bank these points if you blow yourself up.
The bigger you are, the bigger the bomb. The more people you take out in the explosion, the higher the multiplier to your banked score. Respawn and repeat the process – the player with the highest banked score wins.

The game is to be released sometime Q1 2009 on Steam

About the beta:

The beta is currently limited to only one game mode (standard deathmtch - as described above)and three levels. The beta will be for 3 to 4 weeks.

We'd love to hear your feedback (especially criticism) and suggestions

Direct link : http://78.129.232.238/PlainSight_v0_8_1_0.rar

Cheers

Robin

I can post it up for you if you like.

That'd be awesome mate, thanks! I'll get involved in the discussion once I'm allowed to

Cheers

A better place to ask would be on forums.indiegamer.com which is more business oriented.

http://forums.indiegamer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2

Alright mate,

That was my original plan, but I have to wait 48 hours after creating my account to make my first post! As I’m in a bit of a hurry, I thought I'd try my luck with the TIG crowd first 

Really appreciate everyone’s feedback! If i get any solid figures I'll let everyone know...

Cheers

Does not compute.

"Independent" inherently implies that there is no "industry."  As such, there is no "industry value."  There are no company earnings reports, no shareholders to appease, and basically... no numbers.

Someone would have to contact every independent game dev who sold a game in the last 5-10 years and ask them personally how much they sold.  As far as I know there are no figures readily available the way there are with industry companies.

Hey,

Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, you're right, this is a major problem!

Because of this, I was thinking more along the lines of independent game studios that have been published, rather than bedroom hobbyists.

Rather than looking at company reports, I was hoping to use information from publishes. I know some do keep track of % game sales from indie studios however such info is hard to find. An amalgamation of such figures from numerous publishers could give a general overview.  Again, hard to find/do....

I was hoping someone might have read an article that had some figures on the indie dev scene..

any other suggestions?

Hi folks,

I’m looking for some facts and figures on the indie games industry for a presentation I have to do. As I’m based in the UK, it’d be great if I could find figures for both the UK and globally. I’ve been trawling the internet for a while and have so far come up with very little. There’s probably a website dedicated to such things, I just can’t find it 

Roughly, what I’m looking for is : what % of dev market is independent (including number of people working in industry, how many games released, value of industry as a whole etc ) and growth over the last 5-10 years.

If someone could suggest a site to find such information I’d be incredible grateful!
 
Cheers

Robin
 

hey guys,

Was a blast - thanks for coming! Hope you all had a great time...

Shame we're in the middle of a crunch here at Beatnik (hence why Alex and I were knackered 24/7)  - next time we'll be far more entertaining!

A big thank you to Donald for doing all work and getting everyone/everything together.

Im certain I'll be seeing many of you guys v.soon

Cheers! 

London is like the devil's bottom, and I don't want to get lost there!

If London is the devils bottom, Vauxhall is certainly its sphincter.
 

we entered Plain Sight, but (as it's still heavily in development) we're really not expecting anything. Honestly, I'm just looking for an excuse to go to San Fran in March

Oh yes, can we upload new versions of our game after the 1st November deadline? We're currently working on a few major features - i'd be nice to be judged with those in !

PS: loved Dyson! looks stunning and the gameplay is rock solid - think you're onto a winner there!

Yup, dangerous highschool girls was there however it was only for a few hours on the last day. I had a play, it was great fun!

If you have a look on Eurogamer.tv you'll see a video of people talking about their top games of the expo, the indies get mentioned a few times! woop!

lunchtime seems to be the best time for everyone ...as mentioned previously, drop me a line when you arrive

Oh yes, if you're coming from Vauxhall station just walk up the river (with it on your left) after about 10 minutes you'll see black prince road on the right ... you cant miss southbank house after that

Cheers