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This is a long-needed change to the Mac versions of my games. In the past, my Mac games worked on both the old PowerPC-based Macs as well as the newer Intel ones. Well, now the PowerPC Macs have graduated from "old" to "ancient", and Apple has been gently nudging developers into working only with newer releases.

And that extends to the...

Tech support tip for independent game developers selling game downloads

Gmail is a GREAT tech support tool.

I've been selling downloadable games on my website since 2007. And in those years I've had plenty (and by plenty I mean hundreds) of emails to support@thecodezone.com from people who need help. 99% of the emails fall into two...

Okay, I just got a dozen requests for reviews from O'Reilly and Packt, so I thought I'd post the whole set here. If there's something you'd like to see reviewed, by all means tell me in a comment and I'll make sure it happens:

O'Reilly
ActionScript Developer's Guide to PureMVC
Google Script: Enterprise Application...

Been about forever since I posted a good deal. So here's a good deal.

Three good freebies from Daz3D.

Mind you, it requires that you sign up to a newsletter and such. But still, they're some fun 3D programs if...

First off, apologies to Kobold Quarterly for this. I promised a review of their book a while back. And I actually wrote the review. But we're having a bit of a problem with Gamedev's CMS right now, so I'm going to do an end-run around it and post it to the blog.

Problem is, the Amazon-scraper we use to grab book covers and links and info about...