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The Monk's Brew

indie game development, computer games, adventure games

Url:	http://themonksbrew.com
Author(s):	Michael Rubin
Language:	English
Tags:	indie game development, computer games, adventure games
Description:	The Monk's Brew is a blog about indie game design, development, and play, with a particular emphasis on the adventure genre. It is brought to you by Mike Rubin, an indie game developer from Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The End of January Vespers Thing

An Aging Brew

Touché, aaronius

Occasionally I surf around the IFDB looking for goodies. I really like the way it is set up, as it takes a number of cues from other community sites that encourage engagement and social interaction...more

2009-11-23

Congratulations, You’ve Been Kickstarted

In what will amount to essentially a formality, the Jason Scott Sabbatical is set to be officially Kickstarted in just a few hours.Scott, the digital historian, archivist, and documentarian (not to...more

2009-11-21

IFComp, I Hardly Knew Ye

And, there we go. Another IFComp come and gone, with the winners announced this past week. It sounds like the 15th Annual was on par with most, although there appeared to be significantly fewer gam...more

2009-11-20

Long Live the Animator

You may have noticed (if you’ll allow me the fantasy that anyone is paying attention) that it has been a while since the last Vespers update. This is for many reasons, of course. It might jus...more

2009-11-11

Indie, Part-Time

As I was cruising around GDC Austin from one session to the next, I began to gain a greater appreciation of how much of the conference was geared toward the business side of game development. This ...more

2009-10-09

Austin GDC Slides

I know a couple of people were interested in seeing the slides I presented at the Austin GDC, so I’ve (finally) made them available for download.There are two versions available. The slides a...more

2009-10-02

Anticipation II

Back in February of this year, I wrote about an indie game that I was really looking forward to: The Path. The game has since been released, of course, and I would say it was well worth the wait. N...more

2009-10-02

New Host, New Sites

For a little while now I’ve been setting up a website for Orange River Studio and Vespers, and I’ve reached the point where it’s pretty much ready to go live. But that also gave m...more

2009-09-23

Steve’s Cell Phone Number

So one of the cooler things that happened at GDC Austin took place at the Speaker’s Party, a nice rooftop patio party for all of the speakers at the conference with, happily enough, an open b...more

2009-09-22

Steve's Cell Phone Number

So one of the cooler things that happened at GDC Austin took place at the Speaker's Party, a nice rooftop patio party for all of the speakers at the conference with, happily enough, an open bar. I ...more

2009-09-22

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