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.
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I’ve been hard at work on my project, the Picture Game Platform, and I am coming to GDC in San Francisco to show it to everyone who may be interested. The Picture Game Platform allows developers and amateur enthusiasts to create and customize casual, easy-to-learn games in which you scurry around and take pictures, avoiding obstacles and unlocking new abilities. It’s a fun, breezy way to showcase a bunch of pictures or videos, just for its own sake or to drive traffic to other properties. I did all my own programming in Flash, which has been a true joy, and it has gotten my feet thoroughly wet in the vast sea of independent development. I’ve learned a great deal about coding, online advertising, and Web 2.0 APIs, and it has all been so fun!
The most advanced use of the Picture Game Platform is a game called Taboo Snaps, which is near completion and shows off the platform really well. I’ll be showing the Taboo Snaps alpha in my GDC demos as a way to demonstrate the PGP.
I am very keen to meet with all my friends and colleagues to show the demo and get feedback, as well as network for contacts. I am seeking a development partner who will make a mobile version of the Picture Game Platform, with Taboo Snaps as a really promising, ready-to-port app for the iPhone and other mobile devices. I am also looking for partners who want to localize PGP games for other markets, particularly Asia. If you can meet up with me in SF from February 18-29, or know someone I should meet and show the demo, please email me or leave a comment!
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