It was about time to make an update for my Universal Boxing Manager game. I’m adding some things, is just a minor update, nothing comparable to the latest expansion pack for Magic Stones. But is also true that certain games are more easily expandable than others (and UBM wasn’t really made for future expansions).
Still I’ll add a new search boxer feature that was requested since long time, hope my customer (and non customer) will like it!
Gameproducer.net has published live the sales stats for the game Tribal Trouble. I have been selling it as affiliate from some time and it is doing well from my site too. I personally think is one of the first indie games (if not THE FIRST one) to have a production value comparable to commercial ones!
Well done, Oddlabs.
In his blog, Phil Steinmeyer’s talks about the fact that portals are good. Those discussion are fun to read as always, but I want to talk more to another aspect of the “problem”. How can you define yourself indie when you’re using a portal? Everyone who worked with them, knows that they often require changes to your product (not all portals do that, but many yes). Isn’t this falling back to the old “boss that tells you what to do” idea?
You can tell me “yes I just change some minor things and earn 50k euros for that” – well is fine, I don’t talk about the money, but about the principle and the fact that you shouldn’t define yourself anymore “indie”. You’re just another small development team, skilled as you want, but that have to take orders from someone… 😉
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Yes finally after reading some enthusiast reviews I decided to order my copy of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the latest chapter of the Elder Scroll saga by Bethesda. Sigh I still remember playing the great Daggerfall long time ago with my 486DX2 (those were the DOS times, not even windows 95!).
Anyway I can’t wait to play it… seems very promising. I just hope I won’t need a new pc to play it…! 🙁