Out of the Mouths of Babes: The Tim Interviews

By: Derek Yu

On: April 23rd, 2008

Tim W., editor of the almighty IndieGames.com blog, has compiled a list of his awesome indie developer interviews, including one with the notorious MDickie.

His latest interview, with Tommy Refenes (shown above), is not currently in the list, but must be read at all costs. Tommy’s multiplayer action/strategy game Goo! was an IGF finalist this year. A public PC demo of the game is available from his website.

P.S. Tim, I still want to do an interview with you. Please return my calls! :-*

GDC: Third Night

By: Derek Yu

On: February 18th, 2008

Hope you guys aren’t too tired of photos yet! Here’s the next batch.

For me, a big part of the draw of the indie games scene is that it’s so personal. You can very easily get to know the people behind the games. And you can tell these guys really love doing what they do.

Last year when I attended GDC for the first time, it was after working on Aquaria with Alec in a vacuum for almost a year. To be able to arrive and meet people who were doing to same thing we were doing, and get to talk and hang out with them was worth the price of admission alone.

This year it seems like a bunch of old friends meeting up, even though many of us were meeting for the first time IRL. I think that says a lot about the strength of the community. Rock on!

Tomorrow GDC Proper and the Independent Games Summit begin, and we’ll try to cover as much of it as possible. I’m not really sure how it’s going to work, but we have some fierce and drunken reporters on the scene (i.e. Brandon).

Goo!: The Road to IGF (A Montage)

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: December 7th, 2007

Goo! Extended Preview Video

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: October 20th, 2007

Goo! is a new and strange action/strategy game from PillowFort (previously Amorphous Games), which is actually TIGS regular Aubrey Hesselgren and Tommy Refenes (Bezzy and Tommunism on the forums, respectively). In Goo! you control an amorphous blob of goo trying to overwhelm and absorb opposing blobs of goo as they try and do the same to you.+ Actually, that’s just one of the many play modes planned for the finished game, but whatever. Watch the video.

Now, this video isn’t a trailer exactly — it’s more of a live demonstration. It shows off some of the modes, skins, procedural effects… and touches on many coming additions.
Check it out!

This is definitely something to keep an eye on. Show some love, people.

MAC USERS: If the above video is trouble, check out the version at PillowFort’s site.

SEXY UPDATE: Oops, nearly forgot — you can follow Goo!‘s progress (and read up on its storied past) over at ’s development blog">its development blog. Until the new PillowFort site goes up, that is!

+ Say that five times fast.