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Steph Thirion, creator of Eliss, annouces Faraway

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2010)

Steph Thirion is an excellent game designer who I've had the good fortune to meet a few times. He first released a great game called Eliss on the App Store and he's now announced the second game he's been working on, called Faraway. Eliss was a terrific little arcade game that made great use of the ...

Buy software, aid Haiti relief efforts

by Dave Caolo (Jan 19th, 2010)

Last week we pointed out the American Red Cross donation page that's been added to the iTunes Store. This week, several independent Mac/iPhone software (and hardware) developers have come together to aid the relief efforts. Check out Indie+Relief, a site listing a huge number of applications for ...

Jason Rohrer on going from indie to the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2009)

We covered Jason Rohrer's Primrose when it first came out -- the creator of Passage, a critically-acclaimed indie game, had taken his first steps onto the iPhone with an abstract puzzle game, and in this latest interview with Edge, Rohrer says he's on the iPhone to stay. He says that when he first ...

Braid comes to the Mac

by Mike Schramm (May 21st, 2009)

You have to admit: for all of the gaming woes that the Mac faithful has suffered, there's fortunately never been a shortage of great indie games for us to play. Aquaria made it to our platform, World of Goo appeared pretty early on, and now Braid, Jonathan Blow's terrific deconstruction of Super ...

Give Good Food to your Mac, now with international cuisine

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 19th, 2008)

Last year, the Give Good Food to Your Mac promo offered discounts on apps exclusively from Indie developers in Europe. This year the promo is back, and they've opened the doors to developers from around the world. There are some 60 apps available, and the deal is this: buy 3 apps and get a 20% ...

MacYenta.com allows you to discover the indie developer next door

by Cory Bohon (Jun 17th, 2008)

Sure there are way too many social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook, but what if you want to find and connect to indie Mac developers and only indie Mac developers? Well, that's where MacYenta.com comes into play. MacYenta is a one-stop way to connect directly with your indie dev peers ...

Torque Game Builder 1.7 helps indie game developers

by Mike Schramm (Jan 31st, 2008)

Good news for indie game designers on OS X -- GarageGames has released version 1.7 of their Torque Game Builder, which allows programmers to create games for almost any platform from within an OS X interface. This latest release improves the editors for link points and collision polygons, as well as ...

Who needs a record label? Submit your own music to the iTMS with Tunecore

by David Chartier (Apr 25th, 2006)

Are you a musician with some tracks that deserve their time in the iTMS spotlight? No one's promising you'll make the Top Songs list, but Tunecore can at least help you take a shot. While Apple offers an online application through which you can ask them to 'consider your music for the iTMS,' ...