It's been a long time!

When I founded Perfect Minute Games a few years back, I thought I'd be a lot further ahead by now. Instead I've practically given up game development while working on a novel.

It's a long road between then and now. I wasn't able to preseve that incarnation of PMG, but I manage…

I mentioned before that I had founded a game studio focused on short, incredible games. We are making slow, slightly unsteady progress on our first game, so I've decided to start looking around for an artist who

Believes that short games can and should be the best games

Has the experience and artist…

I'm doing a pre-incubator business class/program at the Genesis Centre here in St. John's, and I'm actually learning a fair bit along the way. At the moment my big challenge is proving the working model for Perfect Minute Games. This is a place where the artist/auteur in me comes up hard against th…

Myself and a buddy here in Newfoundland have founded a game development company called Perfect Minute Games. Thus far it's going pretty well; I've had a year or so to really get my feet under me since moving home and now I am at last reasonably stable again, so it is a good moment to dive back into…

I started prototyping something new tonight. Nothing very difficult, just a 2d particle fountain with some on-click effects. But it reminded me of something that has recently hit home: even very simple mechanics, paced correctly, can lead to deep gameplay. More importantly, the simpler a prototy…

I know this isn't particularly related to my Two Things, but forgive me, I haven't set up a formal AppDev blog, and I wanted to get this thought down.

I was reading O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0 and I read this:

Quote:BitTorrent thus demonstrates a key Web 2.0 principle: the service automatically gets b…

Getting my brain handed to me on a plate by a Google tech screen has convinced me that I need, regardless of my professional life, to have at least some kind of relatively advanced technical effort going on at all times if this is actually going to be my life's work. The work I'm doing is, in larg…