Gamenerdery

The Cool-Cam

Or how going behind the project manager’s back on a game which was drastically behind schedule to add a new camera mode was enough to save it from the scrap heap

Tagged development stories.

Two Years of Fez (aka Two Years of Fail)

An awesome blog post by the developers of Fez showing a bunch of shots across the life of the project - from early stages of development until more recent builds.

Quite interesting to watch an awesome project develop over time :)

Tagged fez development diary blog.

Darwinia+ Docs

As a fan of independent gaming, I’m a big fan of the work the Introversion guys put out. Whilst they’ve put out companion discs for earlier titles, this is the first time that anyone has ever been able to put out development documentation from a top-tier console title (in this case being the XBLA version of Darwinia+Multiwinia).

They’ve released a bunch of documentation - from snippets of source code, Emails about the project, Project plans.

A lot of interesting material for anyone interested in what goes on in the back-scenes of games development…

(via Offworld)

Tagged development introversion darwinia.

I Get Your Fail

Probably not as much interest to the general populace, but as a wannabe-game-developer-nerd, this blog showing glitches in games happen to elicit a quite chuckle :)

(via @TehGrumpyDude)

Tagged development glitches.