Dev Links: On The Scene

“Hello friends, I write to you today to let you know we’ve made you something.

Today’s Developer Linkscatches up on some old release news, talks tech and provides a postmortem on rather unique indie.

BattleBlock Theater Now Out on XBLA(The Behemoth)
“Hello friends, I write to you today to let you know we’ve made you something. It took us a little over 4 years but it’s finally here. That’s the most time we’ve put into something, and I think it shows! It is my overwhelming pleasure to announce BattleBlock Theater‘s release.”

Postmortem: Q-Games’ Pixeljunk 4am(Gamasutra)
“At the end of 2010, right after finishing PixelJunk Shooter 2, Q-Games president and founder Dylan Cuthbert pulls me aside for a chat. “So we’ve kind of got this music visualizer using the PlayStation Move called lifelike on the back burner,” he says. “You should make it happen.” I asked for some more details about the project. “Well, there’s music,” Dylan said, “And there’s a PlayStation Move. Off you go.””

Tech Screen(Purple Orange Games)
“Sorry for the lack of updates lately, we are working hard on finishing the demo. It’s almost done. Meanwhile, have a look at the technology screen.”

Infested Planet Patch 0.6.7(Rocket Bear Games)
“Hey gang, I’ve put together the patch with a bunch of improvements. Rather than list all of the changes here, you can refer to past Rocket Reports to get the info.”

Unknown Worlds Networking(Unknown Worlds)
“PC game development sits right at the bleeding edge of the tech industry. Real time 3d rendering of complex interactive scenes is the name of the err, game. A high-tech tech company should have a high-tech IT system, right? Wrong.”

GDC(Gaslamp Games)
“David, Nicholas, Mr. Dykstra and I were down in San Francisco for the annual Game Developers Conference (as you may have noticed from our impressively slapped together post from last week), and we thought it might be cool to give you guys a little bit of an idea what that’s like, why we were there, and what happened.”

The Rebirth of the Vita?(Zeboyd Games)
“After a slow initial start, it looks like the Vita is picking up steam. It feels like every day, some new high profile indie game is announced for the system. However, what I find particularly interesting is how the system is doing in Japan.”

Fun with cookies(Positech Games)
“For a long time I’ve been painfully aware about how much my purchase tracking sucks, due to the following reasons.”