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This week the two of us traveled to Raleigh to show off in the Indie Alley at ECGC 2017! We've shown at the East Coast Game Conference once before, and once again it gave us useful insight into what parts of our games folks find most interesting.
ECGC is a ...
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Future Proof Games will be at the East Coast Game Conference in Raleigh, NC this week for the second year in a row!
If you want to be among the first humans to play the remastered Majesty of Colors, stop by! We'll have playable demos of Majesty running for ...
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In early November, I attended and gave a brief talk at DevOpsDays Charlotte 2015, a conference dedicated to exploring ideas around the modern movement of operations informed by and possibly run with development practices.
The typical, most obvious example of devops is the automation of builds and deployments of ...
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When we decided to go to the GDC this year, we knew we wanted to give out access codes to Exploit: Zero Day when we spoke to people. The easiest way to give out a code to EZD is with a link that includes the code and will guide the player to register, then apply the code.
I set out to create labels containing both a QR code and a shortlink that could be affixed to the back of our business cards. It took quite a bit of trial and error to make this process smooth, but a combination of a Google Spreadsheet, Excel, and Microsoft Word 2013/365 got the job done. Unfortunately, this process won't work with Word 2007 or 2010.
All this work is worth it, though, to have the back of my business card look like this:
Join me on this sweet and technical ride of mail merging.
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Picture is of Jodediah Holem's sculpture made from his games.
We've returned from the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco! It was an intimidating and inspiring time. We were energized to do creative things and think critically about our work as well as reminded that we have a ...
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Both of us attended GDC Next 2014 November 3-4. It was a cozy conference, focusing primarily on non-development topics: marketing, social media, business development. Both of us feel pretty lacking in these areas, and so eagerly hopped on too-early flights to attend.
Rather than give a boring session-by-session description of what I attended and learned, here's discussion on some of the highlights:
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