Tales of the Rampant Coyote

Adventures in Indie Gaming!

Four Steps to Making a Video Game In Just a Few Minutes a Day

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 6, 2013

Last week, I had people ask me how to get indie game development done when you only have about an hour or something to get the job done in an evening. I’m not going to pretend I’m some machine-like super-programmer here. When the Day Job has me working 12+ hours a day (sadly, a description […]


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Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From Game Jamming…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 5, 2013

While I agree with Chris Hecker that indies need to set their sites beyond game jams once in a while, it’s still a very useful exercise IMO and can teach you a lot about game development. Sam Coster counts the ways Game Jamming teaches you to be a better game developer. As I’ve said before, […]


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2012 RPG Watch Game of the Year Awards

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 4, 2013

RPG Watch does the annual thing: RPG of the Year 2012 Indie RPG of the Year 2012 Most Anticipated RPG of 2013 Sadly, there were no “editor’s choice” awards for this year. 🙁 I am somewhat astonished to see that Diablo III didn’t garner 5% of the votes to make the list. I can’t remember […]


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GameBanshee’s RPG of the Year Awards for 2012

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 1, 2013

I wasn’t involved this year, but I’d be hard pressed to argue against the pick for indie RPG of the year. GameBanshee’s Game of the Year 2012 Awards To be honest, and I can’t believe this myself, but I haven’t had time to play Drox Operative yet, in spite of being a major, major fan […]


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