A few years ago, on the tapering end of my active involvement in game journalism, I spent around a year contributing to a budding indie game blog called DIYGamer. It kept my attention for a while, forced me to write more than I otherwise would have, and drew my eye to many interesting new game projects. Then I found other things to do, and I drifted away.
I just learned that the site was discontinued about a year and a half ago, and that it was taken down… well, recently. I swear it was up a few weeks ago.
Luckily, having been bitten many times by the vanishing website bug, I previously archived all of my articles as originally published. (Seriously, everything that I write for soon goes out of business. What gives?) Here, then, is a roughly organized record of my time with that site. Later I may update the links buried in this site. Or maybe not.
EDITORIALS:
- Craft Service
- A Life Worth Living
- Spelunking into the Past
- The Hands of Time
- Compelling a Complete Performance
- Setting Boundaries
- Picking the Lock-box
- The Jagged Edge of Perception
- Jam Together — Thinking Inside the Box
- The Meganode
INTERVIEWS:
- Old Chests, Forgotten Maps, and the Frozen North — Author Joshua E. Turcotte discusses Orb: The Derelict Planet
- Roland Ludlam on Liight and the Hurdles of Game-Making
- Lost in Space with Matthew D. Groves
- Jeremy LaMar: Doodles, Dawdles, and the Creative Cycle
REVIEWS AND PREVIEWS:
- Uin
- Preview: Super Mission Extreme
- Smaller Every Day… Hero Core
- Wagging Your Arms Behind You… Love+
NEWS:
- Matt Aldridge’s Uin Released
- Alt-Play: Jason Rohrer Anthology announced for DSiWare
- Ceramic Shooter – Electronic Poem
- Messhof goes PVP with Raging Hadron
- Reminder: No Quarter tonight at NYU
- Fred Wood’s Love+ Updated
- Poto & Cabenga Released
- Steam Play Indie Pack
- Digging up the Dirt on Life+
- David Shute’s Entanglement (tentative)
- Jason Rohrer’s Primrose: New DSiWare Trailer
- Cactus’ Krebswelte updated
- FiNCK thrown into the Web
- Explore the Collective Consciousness with Farbs’ Playpen
- Miles Drummond’s Jigsaw
- Get your hooks into Arthur Lee’s Streemerz
- Sink your teeth into Guilherme Martins’ Bubblegirl Rozy
- Clear the room with Easyname’s Beeps and Blips
- Curt Kling’s Mash Man stomps on your heartstrings
- Jason Boyer cuts loose with Fuzz Power
- Hydorah: Retro Face, Progressive Brain
- Time Warp Tickers gets you flicking and kicking
- Composition Piece
- Chris Delay’s Game Jam Indoctrination
- Daniel Remar – Garden Gnome goes traveling, and Hero Core update
- Bits and Pieces aspires for brain food
- David Shute’s Unnatural Selection makes you squirm
- Daray Manning’s Baggage
- Cactus takes you to Norrland; reservations open
- Rocket Jockey
- Teppoman 2 Jumps ‘n Sneaks ‘n Runs ‘n Guns
- Gideon Simons’ Rise: Sea of Static
- Hopping and Bopping with NeonPlat 2
- Cactus declassifies Ultra Mission
- Stephen Lavelle’s Whale of Noise
- Cavanagh and Lavelle’s Snowdrift
- Illuminator a Flash of Brilliance
- Shoot First Rocks Your Noggin
- Fishbane Puzzles Absolutely
- Kloonigames Cuts It Out
- Primrose DSi now available
- Theta Games paints the world Orange
- Pigeon Racing sends Tipp topsy-turvy
- Nitrome makes you Worm Food
- Deltoid Onions Will Puzzle You
- Tiptoe the Tiles in Meong
- Paul Greasley takes you Under the Garden
THE GAME-MAKER ARCHIVE:
- Part 01 – The Original Game-Maker
- Part 02 – Matt Bell
- Part 03 – Eclypse Games
- Part 04 – One-Hit Wonders
- Part 05 – Samples and Demos
- Part 06 – Mike Perrucci
- Part 07 – Mark Hadley
- Part 08 – Sheldon Chase and the Woman Warrior
- Part 09 – Easy Lifting
- Part 10 – The Integrator
- Part 11 – Mark A. Janelle
- Part 12 – Cut-and-Paste Opportunism
- Part 13 – The World Wide Haystack
- Part 14 – Laser Light
- Part 15 – The Easiest Lifting (a) (b) (c)
- Part 16 – Trees in the Forest
- Part 17 – The Brussels Spout (a) (b) (c)
- Part 18 – Call and Response
- Part 19 – Presents and Protocol
- Part 20 – Blinky and a Small Kind of Fame