I’ve been slacking in my duties of summarizing the blogs on the Indie Games Guild website, so I’ll see if I can make up for it.

Web Technologies:

C. B. “Dr Aether” Ash made a great post about upcoming web technologies, and Tony “Sgt Flame” Richards added to it with his post about Real Applications on the Web.

It’s exciting to see so many browsers quickly adopting HTML5, and it’s even more exciting to see how much this new standard is capable of doing.  Is this the end of Flash?  Is this the beginning of real applications on the web?  Or is this yet another fiasco of incompatibilities and web development headaches waiting to happen?  Only time will tell.

Games and Game Development:

Matt Gray posted some updates about his fantastic new AIR Steam Punk game.  Take a peek because he was nice enough to give a peek at some of the awesome concept art being done by the AIR team’s talented art crew.

Jason Smith gave a Student’s Perspective on beginning game development, and even provides several tips on how to break into the industry and snag that first job.

Halls of Vallhalla graced us with a couple of posts, one about moving over to Torque 3d binary license and working on a MMOFPS game, and the other discussed his nifty new game using a PHP framework and how he’s interfacing it with the Facebook API.

Chris Dodson gives an insightful perspective on his thoughts about games changing the world, which was a follow-on to a fantastic TED video.  Can games really change the face of the world and how we solve the world’s problems?  This is an extremely interesting follow-on discussion.

Chris also discusses how game mechanics can be beautiful.  Personally, I’ve always thought of code as being beautiful…. or at least it can be beautiful in the right hands.  Check it out and see how Chris would have you appreciate the beauty of game mechanics.

I’m sure I missed some other gems.  Browse the site and pick your favorites…  we’d love to have some feedback.

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