I like finding where people come from to my site. The obvious places are links on websites, my signature on forums, etc. The other neat thing is to see what people typed in Google to stumble upon my website!
This month, someone typed in “Star Wars medichlorines” and apparently saw a link to my site and [...]

A fellow South African indie developer has launched their first foray into the shareware market. They have a track record for producing awesome games. The Retrotoast team in the past won 2 highly esteemed SA game development competitions.
After the previous big competition a publisher picked them up and they have released their game, called [...]

Dev.Mag Issue 18 has arrived. As usual it is packed with juicy game development goodness. It has cool things like the continuation of the Blender tuts, Vector art tuts, interview with Comp 15’s winners RetroToast, White Chamber + Frets on Fire review + CAKE!
It has unexpectedly topped our expectations in size. It went over [...]

Something I have been musing about is a game’s name. I for one always apply 1 vital rule to it. If I search the game, it must come in the top 20 (page 1-2) of Google’s search results.
It should obviously be something unique, like my “Roach Toaster”.
But another thing that has been bothering is alphabetical [...]

I think the reason why Roach Toaster 2 gets so few feedback is because the game looks pale when you look at the screenies. It does not really show why it is so AWESOME and original. So I am going to rant about graphics.
I see games where the graphics are awesome, but the gameplay is [...]

Hi everyone. Roach Toaster 2 has come a long way. It is getting close to its final stages now. I don’t really want to post full “public” versions as I fear that those who play it might not buy the final version.
So, here I have the latest version of Roach Toaster 2 (and probably last [...]

Music is the 2nd passion in my life. If it did not create games, I would’ve made music more often. I STILL make music and I love doing it.
So, I decided to showcase some of my music too.
I created a page on MySpace (aptly title shotbeak).
So, if you want to hear some of my experimental [...]