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Autonauts Are Go!

WHAT’S THAT? Like Aaron and me, you like the likes of that Factorio thing but fancy something a little less hardcore – something a little bit different? Well do we have the game for you… I confess that this particular…

Mechanised Fun

I love video games of course, but I’ve always had an interest in mechanical games when they pretend to be a video game. Arcades are an easy source of examples. Besides Pinball and Foosball there’s loads of ticket redemption ‘skill’…

VR is Reality

Wishing upon a VR. It’s 2016 and Virtual Reality is finally here. It’s pretty big, colossal even, and it’s tough to avoid. Gone are the years of awkward prototypes, over hyped nonsense and that Murder She Wrote episode. Over a few…

The Wisdom Of Gold Five

Focus is often the most under-appreciated tool we have in our creative toolbox. As an example of why focus matters so much consider this: I woke up one hour late yesterday and yet I left the house at exactly the…

Indigitulgence

HEY, HAVE YOU EVER felt your fingerprints? Not just touched them – I mean really FELT them. No? You should. Let’s do it now, together. First, find a quiet spot where you can concentrate. Why, you might even prefer to…

Hot For Teacher

I tried to be a teacher once. I decided I’m not very good at it. But I sure had a load of fun using the programming tool Scratch. Some background: Growing up in the early 80s there were few people…

Demise of the Programmer

Secret sorcerers behind the scenes.   If you want to make a game you need a programmer. Simple really. Though only after interviewing a few of the Dare to be Digital teams this year it would appear not. Last year…

Elephant Juice

I DOUBT it’s something that’s ever kept you awake at night, but if you were to ask me which animal reminds me of game development – no, wait: which animal does game development remind me of – I wouldn’t have…

The Means to The End

Warning – this post may contain unreleased details about our new game. In our last post we explained the importance of the Denki Difference. Today, we’re going to show how we practice what we preach by looking at how we’ve…