Digital Cream

A small group of colleagues has been testing Taboo Snaps for a while now, and I thank them for their help. Now that it is nearly done, I am starting to build up a bigger list of all my friends and colleagues to give it a try.

If I know you personally– that is, we have actually met in meatspace– then you are invited to join the list! If I don’t yet know you personally, I have to hold you off for now, but stay tuned because soon I will expand the list yet again.

To get going, please subscribe to this Google Group. It’s a good, spam-filter-dodging way to blast out email to a list. If you have a Google account, it’s super easy. If you don’t have a Google account, it’s easy to get one, and in the Goo World Order it will be mandatory anyway…
http://groups.google.com/group/taboo-snaps-announcements/subscribe

If you have an email address I might not recognize, please let me know who you are as you apply. Don’t worry if I don’t accept your application right away; I will do a rash of acceptances when I publish the new alpha version on about March 15th.

If you are going to GDC, give it a try beforehand and meet up with me there! I will post more details about that a bit later.

EDIT: I am chickening out on opening up the alpha before GDC, for a few reasons. I want to make a great first impression and though it is near done, it can get better. Also, this is my first time making sure my game can’t be ripped off– meaning its ads get replaced with someone else’s and it gets posted in a hundred places. So I need more time to enable and test that level of security. So, please do join the group as described above, but I will open it up after, not before, GDC.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District has ruled that a California Law that would require stiffer penalties for minors purchasing violent video games and more stringent labeling requirements is unconstitutional.

“We hold that the Act violates rights protected by the First Amendment.” - The Honorable Judge Callahan.

Once again another court joins to rule that games are a form of protected speech. Read more about it here at the Video Game Voters Network.