Digital Cream

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!

Welcome and thanks for coming by! This is Matthew Ford, the madman in the attic.

Digital Cream is my little, independent, one-person game company. I make startling and strange concoctions and put them onto the Wild Web, using the power of word-of-mouth to enchant all the eyeballs I can. I work from a home office in lovely Brisbane, Australia and do just about everything myself, though I will occasionally contract out a bit of art to my colleagues because I can hardly draw. Very small but very happy.

Besides making games, I like to talk about them, as well as the world and industry that supports their development.

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–Matthew
contact1@digitalcream.com.au

Asheron’s Call (on which I was lead producer while at Microsoft Games Studios) got onto the GameSpy list for 50 most memorable games of all time! Thanks Cam for the heads up!