Daily Nuggets of Wisdom From an Indie Game Producer
Before the year ends, it’s worth checking out Steam hardware survey results. The graphs show that Intel is dominating on the CPU side (64%), most people have Windows XP (69%), have more than 2 gigs of memory (56%) and 85% have better than DirectX8 GPU (amazing I think).
Check out the stats – those are pretty interesting figures there.
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About - the guy behind the cut-scenes.
The release of my grandest project so far happened. Nowadays my days pass by me watching how this cute lil creature sleeps.
stu: "many AAA studios are already embracing it as sony is pushing it heavily and now with nintendo too, the breakthrough may not be that far. Killzone 3 is a good..." 12 hours 16 minutes ago. 
Joe: "Games involving hunting and gathering are fun. Pac-man was a hit in its day and is a basic from of hunting and gathering with the emphasis on gathering. Same with..." 12 hours 45 minutes ago. 
Juuso: "Okaydokie. Really cool games. The contest is ended now… and I’ll go through all the games and pick at least 3 to purchase (so many to choose from)...." 13 hours 6 minutes ago. 
David Amador: "Well I’ve already submitted mine. May the best ones win. I just wanted to say this is a great idea, I’ve end up buying 2 of the games listed,..." 16 hours 0 minutes ago. 
TheQuux: "There’s a reason that there are pool tables, volleyball courts, and ball pits strewn around Google, and it’s not just because they’re fun...." 1 day 14 hours ago. 
dr_bonzo: "For me, anything away from computer. Toilet, shower, eating breakfast (today twice) :)" 1 day 15 hours ago. 
Fili: "@Lumooja: it’s a little more complicated than a simple webcam that tracks your head. Nintendo 3DS uses something called a Parallax barrier over the screen..." 1 day 18 hours ago. 
budda: "Shower is the top place, followed by just washing hands. Must be something in the water….." 2 days 5 hours ago. 
Ilya: "My bet is that 3D platformers will benefit most. Racing and flight games too. All the games where navigation plays a major part, where you need to judge..." 2 days 9 hours ago. 
Lumooja: "The Nintendo DS “two layer” 3D effect how you call it, is just a simple headtracking :) DS uses however eyetracking, but it’s the same..." 2 days 9 hours ago. 
merc-ai: "Sofa FTW. For me, it’s perfect for refining or coming up with new game design solutions. Also, shower. And the perfect time for general thought sorting..." 3 days 9 hours ago. 
Spunkmeyer: "coding in dreams is possible :-) And riding the bus/train works for me too." 3 days 11 hours ago. 
Ovogame: "This is already in place for downloaded casual games. And to be honest this is a really bad idea. As a dev, we see very little money coming in from these..." 3 days 14 hours ago. 
