Indie developers with a weblog

[ManuelFLara]

I've seen sometimes people here saying "I replied to this on my weblog" and I'm wondering how many indie developers have a weblog, so we can make a list here. Since indie developer is a pretty broad concept and we could end up with a huge list, let's add a brief description about the blog next to the URL/name, like "He mostly talks about its own projects under development".

I'll start with some of the most well-known here:

- Thomas Warfield's A Shareware Life (http://www.asharewarelife.com), mostly talks about events happening in the shareware community as well as its own projects.

- Jack Norton's Blog (http://winterwolves.net/blog/), centered about its own developments and personal life.

- David Michael's JoeIndie (http://www.joeindie.com/blog/index.php), pretty interesting, covers any indie-related topic.

- Kai Backman's weblog (http://www.kaibackman.com/), ShortHike (aka Space Station Manager) related.

[cliffski]

cliffskis mumblings (http://cliffski.blogspot.com)
thats mine :D

[ggambett]

Funny, I came here to post an announcement :)

I started a blog yesterday, Gabriel on Graphics (http://gabrielongraphics.blogspot.com) It's not about indie game development but about computer graphics. So if you want an one-liner,

Gabriel on Graphics (http://%3C/a%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http://gabrielongraphics.blogspot.com/%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3Ehttp://gabrielongraphics.blogspot.com%3C/a%3E) - Theory and practice of computer graphics, the easy way

[_6_]

Here is my blog, but I'm pretty bad at updating it often. The scope of my game also keeps changing the more I learn how difficult certain parts are going to be to program.

www.whitespace.net.nz (http://www.whitespace.net.nz) - Trying desperately to create a hexagonal tile based strategy game.

[jankoM]

indie in a maze (http://jankom.blogspot.com) I try to make realtime log of someone who wants to make it in indie-gamedev. For scientific purposes only.

[PoV]

Not that I'm anyone cool, but I decided to open mine to the public.

http://www.toonormal.com

Warning: May contain little drawings and self promotional propaganda.

[otaku]

http://www.otakunozoku.com/ Product reviews, book reviews, personal news, cool software hacks.

Not so much a blog as just my personal website that I have always had (going on 10 years now).

And it is updated as and when I can afford the time away from my paying work. Actually, I have three new items to be posted to it within the next seven days.

[ggambett]

Not that I'm anyone cool, but I decided to open mine to the public.I'm not cool either, that's why I didn't have a blog until yesterday, and why "my" blog isn't about me :)

[ZuluBoy]

Here is mine ;)

[Sillysoft]

Dustin Sacks' blog (http://randomdude.com/blog/), talking about my life with a large part of it concerning the games business. If you only want the business stuff without the personal fluff then you can just stick to the shareware category (http://randomdude.com/blog/cat/shareware).

[illume]

Here's my not so often updated one:

http://renesd.blogspot.com/ making games, making webs.

Cheer :)

[HappyCat]

I thought about it one - I even created the blog. But then I decided I probably had nothing interesting to say and decided not to bother :)

[Sharpfish]

My blog.

http://sharpfish.blogspot.com/

Nothing of note there yet (and there may never be ;) ) but so so busy working on games... then on website... blog comes way down the list.

[Anatoly]

I have a blog at my website
http://www.anatoly-online.com
But because my games are not progressing at the time, it's just mostly about my life.

[HappyCat]

Okay, I've actually been "inspired" by this thread to re-instate my previously deleted blog :)

The Rambling Coder (http://ramblingcoder.blogspot.com)

[GBGames]

My blog is in my sig. When I started it, I didn't think I would update it so regularly, but almost every day there is a new post. Sometimes two or three.

/me stops tooting his own horn.

I'll be sure to add the blogs here to my RSS feeds.

EDIT: I just realized that in the future my sig might change, so for posterity's sake, here is a link to GBGames' Blog: http://www.gbgames.com/blog

[chanon]

This is mine:
http://www.chanons.com
Haven't posted anything in a while, but will get back to it soon once I'm less busy. Will try to focus more on the business aspects in the blog.

[BinaryMoon]

But then I decided I probably had nothing interesting to say and decided not to bother

That didn't stop me :) - http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/

[Savant]

Seriously. If there's no requirement that it has to be good, you might as well waste time with mine: Here (http://savant.typepad.com/).

[Cartman]

And one more: Piddlepup Blog (http://piddlepup.com/?q=blog)

[Fost]

It basically comes down to being a blog under another name, and it's not a single developer, but here's our dev diary (http://www.moonpod.com/board/viewforum.php?f=14). ( RSS Feed (http://www.moonpod.com/English/news_rss.php?feed=podblog) ).

...now two months out of date, but I'm working on that :)

[Gary Preston]

00101010.figmentgames.com - Thats my blog, nothing specifc I use it for although over time programming and games will probably be the largest part of it :P

[lowpoly]

Currently kinda boring, but what the hay: Roundhouse (http://www.26k.org/games)

screenshots, eventually...

[Hamumu]

Come on by mine too!

Hamumu Journal (http://hamumu.com/journal.php) - Assorted stuff, mostly "Why I didn't get anything done today".

[Mike Boeh]

What happened to "Ibe on Life"?

[MrPhil]

I have one at http://mrphilgames.com/mrphil/default.htm .

Kind of been slacking on posting lately. Once I'm done switching to drupal I want to post more often.

[GBGames]

What happened to "Ibe on Life"?

It's http://www.actiononlife.com

[GBGames]

I'm going through some of the blogs, and I'm finding that some people have apparently rolled their own or something because there are no RSS feeds. I am basically keeping up with blogs by using Firefox Active Bookmarks, so non-RSS blogs are just more difficult to track. I would strongly suggest setting up some RSS feeds for your site if you don't have one. I've never done it myself, but I hear it isn't very hard to do.

[GBGames]

Here is a list of blogs I have in my Game Blogs section of ActiveBookmarks. Not all of them are Indie. Some of them update more often than others. Some of them have more to do with games than others.


A Shareware Life (http://www.asharewarelife.com/)
Action on Life (http://www.ibeonlife.com/sblog/)
Al's Game Programming Blog (http://alpatrick.blogspot.com/)
Cliffskis Mumblings... (http://cliffski.blogspot.com/)
Dreamy Gamer (http://www.meexia.com/blog/)
Game Architect (http://www.gamearchitect.net/)
Game Savant (http://savant.typepad.com/savant/)
GameDevBlog (http://www.gamedevblog.com/)
Games * Design * Art * Culture (http://www.costik.com/weblog/)
Games from Within (http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/)
Games Without Frontiers (http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/)
Got Game? (http://www.corante.com/gotgame/)
Intelligent Artifice (http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/)
joeindie.com (http://www.joeindie.com/blog/index.php)
Kieron Gillen’s Workblog (http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/)
Laundry Sessions (http://laundrysessions.blogspot.com/)
Lost Garden (http://www.lostgarden.com/index.html)
Make Mac Games (http://makemacgames.com/)
making and breaking games (http://www.planetcerulean.com/candle/)
Psychochild's Blog (http://blog.psychochild.org/)
radioact1ve's game of life... (http://radioact1ve.blogspot.com/)
Ronkes (http://ronkes.nl/blog)
Sun And Games (http://sunandgames.blogspot.com/)
Tales of the Rampant Coyote (http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/)
Winter Wolves thoughts (http://www.winterwolves.net/blog/)
Xemu's Long-Winded Game Industry Ramblings :: Main Page (http://xemu.blogharbor.com/blog)
Zen of Design (http://www.zenofdesign.com/)
game girl advance (http://www.gamegirladvance.com/)
Carpe Delirium (http://www.carpe.com.au/blog/)
gamermom (http://www.gamermom.blogspot.com/)
Jeff Freeman (http://mythical.blogspot.com/)
Play Cube (http://playcube.org/skins/custom/)
Jon Jones, smArtist (http://www.jonjones.us/)
indieness (http://www.funmangames.com/indieness/) (the feed of which decided to forward me to the Spanish version of the site even if I try to add the feed from the English one)
Brett's Footnotes (http://www.brettdouville.com/)
Dubious Quality (http://dubiousquality.blogspot.com/)
ModBlog - The Design Game. (http://ferr.modblog.com/)
Gaffer on Games (http://gaffer.org/)
Independent Gaming (http://indygamer.blogspot.com/)
...on pampers, programming & pitching manure (http://www.kpallist.blogspot.com/)
Indie Blog (http://www.revve.com/indieblog/)
The Rambling Coder (http://ramblingcoder.blogspot.com/)
renesd - making games, making webs. (http://renesd.blogspot.com/)
Reality from the sidelines (http://sharpfish.blogspot.com/)
tooNormal (http://www.toonormal.com/)
Sila Kayo's Blog (http://sila.typepad.com/)
Gabriel on Graphics (http://gabrielongraphics.blogspot.com/)
Kai's ShortHike Blog (http://www.kaibackman.com/)
Chanon’s “Starting a Business” Blog (http://www.chanons.com/)
» Binary Moon (http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/)
Blog | Piddlepup Games (http://piddlepup.com/)
Discussion Pod :: View Forum - Developer Diary (http://www.moonpod.com/board/viewforum.php?f=14)
Gary Preston (http://00101010.figmentgames.com/)
Roundhouse (http://www.26k.org/games/)
Reality Panic (http://www.igda.org/blogs/realitypanic/)
A Digital Sailor's Development Diary (http://sonicron.solaristudios.com/)
This Autumn Evening (http://autumnevening.blogspot.com/)
American McGee's Blog (http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/)
Unearthed Games Dev Diary (http://www.unearthedgames.com/main/devdiary)

[soniCron]

May as well add mine to the list: (it's brand new!)

http://sonicron.solaristudios.com/

EDIT: The address has changed to http://sonicron.solaristudios.com/

[mahlzeit]

Another brand new blogger here (http://autumnevening.blogspot.com). :)

[Rory]

The Souptoys Boys finally got round to getting a blog, and oh boy is it minimal:)

http://souptoys.blogspot.com/

[C.S.Brewer]

step right up!
indie game design / coding / unearthing gods
UnEarthed Games DevDiary (http://www.unearthedgames.com/main/devdiary)

[GBGames]

The Souptoys Boys finally got round to getting a blog, and oh boy is it minimal:)

http://souptoys.blogspot.com/


Even the RSS feed fits the theme by telling me that the LiveBookmark feed failed to load in Firefox. B-)

[Ronkes]

I suddenly have a lot more to read. :-)

I just started a new blog: Casual Game Design (http://www.casualgamedesign.com/).