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Lux Delux features game trailer

dustin — 2011-07-04T17:23:03-04:00

Lux Delux was recently updated with a fullscreen mode, new options, and new maps. We created a new video trailer showing off the current features of Lux Delux:

YouTube - Lux Delux Features Game Trailer

Fun Sailing Simulator Game

dustin — 2011-04-26T02:58:25-04:00

I was recently looking at games available on the Mac App Store and my favorite discovery so far is Sailboat Championship.

The game lets you control a small sailboat using simple controls. It's fast and fun. It's also hard, which lets you appreciate your improvement, including racing against a "ghost" view of your previous run.

It's also available for iPhones, so find it in either app store.

Stone Cold Indie Gaming

dustin — 2011-04-14T01:39:54-04:00

The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle - pay what you want for five awesome video games!

Underwater Adventures

dustin — 2011-03-21T06:38:03-04:00

I've been staying up late nights this week captivated by the computer game Aquaria. It's a thoroughly enjoyable underwater adventure game, with an immersive world of different environments, delightful art, fitting musics, and a fun storyline. It reminded me of classic Zelda games in many respects, with its own unique aspects.

Highly recommended, it's available to download for Mac and PC (and maybe Linux).

Castle Vox - Axis vs Allies Game Trailer

dustin — 2010-12-10T17:10:40-05:00

Here's the second trailer for my new game Castle Vox. It's a combination of Risk with Diplomacy with Axis & Allies. Available to download now for PC, Mac, and Linux.

My new computer game Castle Vox

dustin — 2010-10-18T21:08:31-04:00

The computer game I've been working on for the past 2 years has just been released. It's called Castle Vox and I encourage you to check it out.

The gameplay is a simultaneous-turn-based strategy model. So you don't have to wait for all the other players to take their turns, you're always taking your turn (except in-between rounds when the battle resolutions happen).

Here's a screenshot of the Napoleonic Wars map:

The full version has 35 maps and counting. The game includes a map editor so you can make your own, or edit the existing ones.

So go play: Castle Vox - Diplomacy game meets Axis & Allies

My Favorite Mac OS X Games

dustin — 2010-04-01T15:55:03-04:00

I just updated my list of cool Mac OS X Games to Download. Mac gamers should take a look and have some fun.

Osmos - Relaxation Game

dustin — 2010-03-23T06:02:38-04:00

Osmos is a fantastic game based around the concept of planetary orbits, and set in a relaxing ambient space environment. I highly recommend you try it when you're in the mood for a chill activity.

Watch this video trailer for the game, or download the free demo to dive right in.

Gaming can make a better world

dustin — 2010-03-20T06:34:11-04:00

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

Olympic... um... Games

chrisdye — 2010-02-11T21:42:32-05:00

Of all of the Olympic Mascot flashgames,
recycling bin curling is the best.
(Although I like the music for Soaring Sumi).

I Don't Dare Start One

vinny9 — 2010-01-19T17:23:57-05:00

20 free Browser RPG games

Popomatic cupcake

Bryan — 2010-01-06T21:10:56-05:00

http://www.steelheadstudio.com/100cupcakes/

How many cupcake games can you name?

I got 45. I think you can beat that, nerdz!

Star Punch

vinny9 — 2009-05-12T08:59:27-04:00

Plus, Doc Louis training

Fun game

vinny9 — 2009-04-24T12:36:59-04:00

Flight Control for the iPhone/Touch is a great game. For it's temp price of 99c, it's a total steal and very much worth it.

Zoetermeeriment

chrisdye — 2009-04-04T14:57:04-04:00

Zoetermeer is a city (pop. 119,000) near The Hague and Rotterdam. On the city council website are Zoetermeer-themed computer games. One is a sort of SimZoetermeer, like SimCity except that the city grows according to the history of Zoetermeer from 1960 (when the town had only 6,000 people) to today. The other is Castle Zoetermeer. I haven't tried that one yet.

I think that all city council websites should have video games.

2008 Lux Awards

dustin — 2008-10-23T16:41:39-04:00

The Luxtoberfest 2008 award ceremonies are being held inside online Lux Delux on Sunday at 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern / 8 PM UK / 9 PM Europe time.

All Luxers are eligible to vote for the best map of the year. Please vote now!

Top Score

vinny9 — 2008-09-16T12:37:25-04:00

10 hip-hop songs that sampled video games

Luxtopia - Lux Map of the Week

dustin — 2008-06-17T19:45:14-04:00

Luxtopia

Normally a peaceful land, Luxtopia has thrived under Lord Quasar. But unrest is brewing in the countryside.

Find your home in Luxtopia - whether it be one of the churches, a local landmark or even in Noob Village and DEFEND YOUR TURF.

Be careful, game... [read more...]

Luxtopia was created by RandomGuy. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

Platforms to Stand On

dustin — 2008-06-09T19:15:13-04:00

My company currently makes games for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

The first 2 have a good business case. Lots of people run Mac OS X and Windows, and buy games to play. (Thank you to all the customers who keep us small developers alive.)

Linux doesn't have as good a business case for us. Not very many people buy the Linux versions of our games. But, I foresee Linux continuing to grow in leaps and bounds on the desktop. And our codebase is in Java, so it isn't that much extra work to make Linux versions.

Going Mobile
The mobile OS wars are warming up fast. In the past we've gotten some scattered requests for PocketPC or Palm versions, but it hasn't seemed worthwhile. Apparently there was good money to be made selling Palm apps in the past, but greedy distributors (hearsay says Handango) and a decaying platform have destroyed it.

J2ME and BREW cellphone apps are making money, but only for a few big companies (at least in North America). The carriers have been very greedy distributors, and locked down their platform tightly.

Apple's iPhone is fresh mobile platform coming on strong. They've publicized their app distribution rate as taking a 30% cut. That's a lot better then most desktop games distributors (Yahoo Games typically takes 70%). Apple has been tremendously successful at iterating the iPod from version1 to perfection. They're following the same process with the iPhone, building a mobile platform from the ground up. I think the iPhone will be one of the long term mobile platform winners.

Google Android is the other mobile platform I'm keeping an eye on. Open-source and available for carriers to build on. Apps are written in the Java language, but using G's own VM and libraries. (A nice end-run around SUN, straight to Java developers.) It hasn't launched on any real phones yet, but I think it has huge potential. The first Android phones are supposed to be available "soon."

You already have a computer in your pocket (your cellphone). The big question for software developers is: what platform is your next one going to run?

Castle Lux MP - Lux Map of the Week

dustin — 2008-06-09T18:25:03-04:00

A Castle Lux optimized for quicker multi-player games.

Rules:
- Beware of the troll on the bridge, he'll devour 2 of your soldiers for crossing!
- Any area touching a castle wall can attack that wall.

Story:
After the IV Luxdom War of 1224 the countryside was gripped by a devastating ice age. Luxtopians were forced to retreat into the extensive caves under the North Shore Mountains as bitter cold laid waste to all of Luxdom... [read more...]

Castle Lux MP was created by Sillysoft Games. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

Vidfest and the Pop Vox Awards

dustin — 2008-05-01T20:19:01-04:00

Vidfest is the Vancouver International Digital Festival, happening May 21-24, 2008. It's got a keynote from Chris Anderson of Wired, a day of "creative exchange" conference sessions, a day of "International Partnering Forum" one-on-one meetings, and the PopVox Digital Media Awards.

Lux Delux is in the running for the best casual game award. Please show your support and vote for the entry (you have to register an account for the Vote button to show up).

Launch Party 4 is also happening on the 21st, celebrating the local startup scene. And the Vancouver Game Summit runs concurrently on May 21-22, mostly focused on console business.

Techcouver is being used more as a nickname for Vancouver. Cool beans.

Create your own Custom Anime Avatar

dustin — 2008-04-12T19:52:52-04:00

Tektek.org's Dream Avatar is an awesome avatar creation game that has been sweeping the Lux Forums like wildfire. Lots of cool stuff to choose from and output is a PNG on a transparent background. Sweetness.

Their HTML output code is missing some "s in it unfortunately, and won't work in a comment here without being fixed.

Abandon The Run

vinny9 — 2008-01-25T23:43:05-05:00

http://www.abandonia.com/

An online repository of abandonware (games which aren't sold anymore and are released into the public domain).

Space Quest! Quest for Glory! Lemmings! I so don't have time...

Angry Nintendo Nerd

registeredname — 2008-01-17T23:33:17-05:00

I stumbled on this today and thought it was hilarious:

The sad thing is I was bad with every game I played on the NES.

Other good ones to check out are :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMg6_IXCjo4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p713bNaO4A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raUvGNbZFg&feature=related

Tetris: in 3D

Adrienne — 2008-01-05T13:28:59-05:00

Tetris fun the game show way

Awesome human representation of the game

I should really learn how to add videos.

YAY FLASH GAMES YAY

Sean — 2008-01-03T21:46:24-05:00

I do not play many games but here are two flash games I read about recently at MetaFilter and am now pretty much in love with:

Cursor 10 is a truly original, beautiful and downright exciting game - quick-witted, challenging, and ingenious. All you need to know: YOU HAVE 10 CURSORS. WORK TOGETHER. (not much replay value though.)

Shuffle is like curling or pool or shuffleboard, but with no walls, no nonsense, just balls and shootin' and your heart in yr mouth. Devilishly simple.

Go Medieval On Your Chess

vinny9 — 2008-01-01T14:06:21-05:00

Tafl games (medieval Scandinavian board games)

Map Porn

dustin — 2007-12-14T17:23:31-05:00

This post has screenshots of some of the hottest maps for the computer strategy game Lux. Images below the cut (work-safe).

US Map aka USA Map aka Map of US

Map of Iraq

Hey, you made it to the bottom! Share the wealth and spread this post on your favorite network. Your friends will love you for it!

PS: Map porn? Oh yeah, baby. Deep, wet, glistening rivers. Rock hard mountains. Trade routes spread wide open. Yours to dominate. This stuff is nasty dirty. ;-)

Sillysoft Games Exposed

dustin — 2007-11-12T23:08:52-05:00

Luxtoberfest included a series of competitive "LuxShoppe" photoshop showndowns. It's all come down to a final epic match running now between Sasquatch and MBauer. The results so far are spectacular, and include these behind-the-scenes look into Sillysoft's secret operations.

The last one was just a dream. I think. Maybe a vision.

Luxtoberfest 2007

dustin — 2007-10-01T05:40:03-04:00

Luxtoberfest is a series of tournaments and awards for my Risk inspired computer game Lux.

There are lots of maps (RSS) and people in the running for the Lux Awards. You have 1 month to send in your votes...