The Global Game Jam <https://globalgamejam.org/> is almost here! …

For a limited time — until February 4, 2020 — “Obversion” can be bought with a 15% discount on Steam. “Obversion”, a first-person puzzle-platformer game that has been in the works for a year, has finally been released on Steam on January 28 this year. This game…

Short summaries of gaming-related and tech-related news. Yesterday — April 21, 2019, Sunday — was the 30th anniversary of the Game Boy’s release in Japan. Despite being technically inferior to its fourth-generation competitors (Sega’s Game Gear, Atari’s Lynx, and NEC’s TurboExpress), the Game Boy received praise for its battery life…

Today is International Women’s Day 2019. This is a small list of women who made contributions to the videogame industry. #InternationalWomensDay2019 #InternationalWomensDay Last year, I gave a talk about female inventors from the Philippines, at Noisebridge’s “5 Minutes Of Fame — International Women’s Day Edition”. This year, I will make…

Videogame developers of all skill levels, from beginners to professionals — including programmers, artists, and musicians — participated in the Global Game Jam of 2019. This year’s Global Game Jam happened on the weekend of January 25 to January 27. What Is The Global Game Jam? For those of you who don’t know, the Global Game…

What can indie videogame developers (or any videogame developer or software developer) learn from these trends? The end of a year is usually a time when there are restrospectives of what happened in the preceding 12 months; as well as a time to forecast and predict what is yet to…

QConSF is a developer conference made by InfoQ, held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco’s Embarcadero District. This year, the conference itself is on November 5, Monday, to November 7, Wednesday; with additional workshops on November 8 to 9. The Origins When I looked up InfoQ, I got this Wikipedia definition…