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steam

So You Want To Compete With Steam

This article also available in: Russian translation by HTR Mobile Uzbek translation by Drawings Team) I get a lot of pitches for "Steam competitors" in my inbox. 99% of them are

  • Lars Doucet
9 min read
games

Oil It or Spoil It

"Juice" is probably a game design term you've heard before. By Agricultural Research Service Public Domain It was first coined in the seminal article How to Prototype a Game in Under

  • Lars Doucet
11 min read
open source

How We Paid Our Open Source Taxes

Open Source libraries tend to have two problems: Not enough funding Not enough contributors* *Particularly concerning when you consider the Bus Factor. When you're maintaining an open source library, and you're not getting

  • Lars Doucet
8 min read
haxe

OpenFL for Home Game Consoles

CONTEXT: This is a presentation I recently gave at WWX2015 (WorldWide Haxe conference) in Paris, France. Briefly stated, Defender's Quest HD and Defender's Quest II use three core technologies: Haxe is the programming

  • Lars Doucet
15 min read
steam

Mods, Salutary Neglect, and Storks

Okay so let's talk about this whole Steam Workshop paid mods thing, the internet freakout, and its subsequent reversal. Some very good points have been brought up by the "against" crowd,

  • Lars Doucet
9 min read
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