Binary Joy

• Jake's Mini Bio

• Games Site : http://www.greyaliengames.com/

• I’m an Indie game developer with a couple of titles under my belt. I’ve been programming for 23 years on a variety of platforms. Currently I’m using BlitzMax, which is great.

Jake's Recent Posts...

Just finished Serious Sam 2

Wow, I just finished Serious Sam 2 by Croteam. It’s an oldish FPS shooter from 2005 and it’s CRAZY! I loved the original Serious Sam because when it came out most games only ever had a few high-poly enemies on-screen at once. However Serious Sam brought back “Hordes” for more or less the [...]

Monkey Island is being Re-released

Ron Gilbert has blogged about two forthcoming re-releases of Monkey Island and then he analyses the good and bad design decisions in the original Monkey Island. It’s a good read for an old-skooler like me.

Pest Control by Nitrome

I know that Ben has already written about Pest Control but I only properly discovered it yesterday and thought it was great – so I thought I’d quickly post about it.
It’s a great fun well made whack-a-mole type game on steroids with cool retro graphics and music, and lots of variety.

It was my 8 year [...]

I just finished Alien Shooter: The Experiment

Awesome! Just finished Alien Shooter: The Experiment (downloadable Indie PC game). I totally recommend all the Alien Shooter games. It’s been a couple of years since I reviewed the original Alien Shooter but the game is still just as brilliant.
There are two expansion packs (Fight For Life and The Experiment). I found Fight [...]

Incredibots and Fantastic Contraption

Last Friday I went to visit Grubby Games, makers of MyTribe (a very successful sim game) and Incredibots (an online physics-based construction game). I work pretty close to them and I’ve got to know them since moving to Vancouver so it made sense to pop in for a little visit (they checked out our [...]