Posted a GDC coverage article about how rewind works in Braid:
https://www.gamedev.net/columns/events/gdc2010/article.asp?id=1808

Control Inspiration
Mark "messhof" Essen and Daniel Benmergui (developer of Today I Die)

This session was titled "Control Inspiration," but was actually less focused on controls and perhaps more on inspiration by itself. The format was extremely informal and was basically just two separate talks give…

How to Manage an Exploratory Development Process
(Kellee Santiago and Robin Hunicke, thatgamecompany)

For this first session of the day, the presenters focused on solutions to problems that arise when developing games like Flower where experimentation is required to find the "magic." These problems w…

Alright, my journal has been activated, so I'm ready to start covering the second day of the Independent Games Summit. About to head over to the Moscone Center now and find a seat.

UPDATE:
Sitting in the IGS room waiting for the first presentation to start.

Schedule for the day:

10:00 - How to Manage a…

Holy crap, I haven't updated this thing in... well, possibly ever. I also haven't updated my main blog in forever, either. However, I'm paying for this one, so it should probably get some use.

So, let's see... currently I am an "actual" game developer (well, paid summer internship), which is interes…

Seeing as it appears to be The Thing To Do, I am preemptively closing this journal before anything goes wrong.

Actually, though, this whole closing fad is somewhat mean. I think I'd be ticked off if I was in EDI's shoes at this point. I could get into a philosophical description of why it isn't help…