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Particle Effects - Contest #4

The winning team of this weeks contest will earn $159 in first party store credit for the best particle effect.

Author Geoff Beckstrom Date 02/17/2012 (2:04 pm) Comment 23 comments

The View Contest - Contest #3

The owner with their video embedded as a comment to this blog with the most views at 12:59 PM PST Friday February 17th will win $159 in first party store credit.

Author Geoff Beckstrom Date 02/14/2012 (4:57 pm) Comment 35 comments

Game Industry Thoughts

My thoughts on the Video Game Industry and Double Fine's Kickstarter.com success and a bit of a personal introduction.

Author Geoff Beckstrom Date 02/10/2012 (12:45 pm) Comment 12 comments

Torque 2D Political Satire Contest - Contest #2

Provide a video or a screen capture of your best political satire using Torque 2D to create the scene or game. Post your entry as a comment to this blog no later than 11:59 AM PST Friday February 10th.

Author Geoff Beckstrom Date 02/08/2012 (1:10 pm) Comment 47 comments

Take A Break With Us - Contest #1

Join us today (Feb 3rd) at 12:00PST (20:00GMT) for an hour long contest. Winner gets $179 in credits in our store.

Author Eric Preisz Date 02/03/2012 (10:56 am) Comment 46 comments

The Design Process

One of the thing a lot of designers forget is that not everyone will like the same type of game you do. I usually start with a concept that I see or remember from my childhood. It is a great place to find inspiration. Once I get that spark I run with it and try to picture in my head what it should look like and how the game plays.

Author Masaki Oyata Date 01/27/2012 (1:06 pm) Comment 6 comments

Teach Torque, Make Money

Tonight ends the final session of a nine hour course I've been teaching at usr/lib, a community driven Las Vegas tech savvy library.

Author Eric Preisz Date 01/26/2012 (7:14 pm) Comment 42 comments

#VegasTech

I arrived at an empty coffee shop. Is this the tech mecca I was reading about? I asked the girl working behind the counter about the growing technology group that was meeting here. She acted like she wasn't sure what I was talked about and then suggested, "oh, yea, that thing on Thursday night upstairs."

Author Eric Preisz Date 01/18/2012 (4:34 pm) Comment 10 comments

Stop SOPA and PIPA

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Author Michael Perry Date 01/18/2012 (7:02 am) Comment 52 comments

2011 - The Year in Review!

2012 has begun with a bang here in Vegas! We're excitedly pushing forward on a number of great projects and have some very exciting things that we are working on! We'll post more on these things later, however. I wanted to sit down and look at the 2011 year and reflect on just how far we have come as a company.

Author David Montgomery-Blake Date 01/17/2012 (12:15 pm) Comment 22 comments