Iron Grip: Marauders Is Announced

Within about a week from having Cooperative First Person Shooter Iron Grip: Warlord published on Steam, ISOTX announces the development of another title in the Iron Grip World, Iron Grip: Marauders. Unlike its predecessor, IG:M is going to be a 3D browser-based game.

Iron Grip: Warlord is now on STEAM!

The headline says it all. The first installment in the Iron Grip series is now available on the leading online distribution platform, Steam.

The Future of Games

There’s a very interesting lecture at G4TV about the future of games. It starts off with some very interesting facts on the success of converged-reality games, and then goes on to make some very interesting predictions about how life could be in a the future. Very entertaining, and very educating: DICE 2010 – The Future of Games PS3 Games [...]

Iron Grip: Lords of Atelia Beta is rolling out

It has been very busy lately, but it looks like the efforts were not in vain. Iron Grip: Lords of Atelia, a strategic browser-based game that I've been working on for several months now, is entering a Closed Beta stage. The Closed Beta has not yet been announced, however, registration is already available here.

My Games on TV (and other news)

That's nice!! Just got a youtube link from a customer (EZ Way) for whom we've recently developed 2 nice little mini-games. The link shows their CEO demonstrating the games we've developed for them on TV (the morning show of Channel 2).

Communifying games

Here's a nice article I was sent about making games more community-enabled. Although the article is a bit dated, it still has several observations that you might want to take a look at with regards to how to make games more community-oriented.

Economy of PBBGs

I ran into this article a few weeks back, but for some reason I didn't think of adding it back then. But I find it most interesting to anyone developing a multiplayer browser-based game (myself included), as it reveils some important information on the economic acheivements of some of the most successful BBGs out there, including economic performance.

Innovative Casual Game Design

Here's another interesting post on Gamasutra. While I don't agree with each and every choice they made, the article does feature several very innovative (and fun!!) games.

MyGamesLab Migrates

We’ve found a new home! The site is being transferred to our new host, which should hopefully provide a faster and nicer surfing experience. Cheers!

MMO Development Experiences

What’s it all about? This article is based on a post was that was originally made on www.isotx.com, at the blog forums. It triggered quite a debate there, and so I decided to improve it a bit, taking on some of the conclusions and clarifications made there. While the title is “MMO Development” it’s only because it originated from discussing the development of an MMO game, Ballerium, however most of the issues can be adapted to any large-scale game development. [...]