Monthly Archives: February, 2009

Coming Soon… Infiniminer!

It’s a game about mining, and building, and blocks – lots of blocks!It’s also 3D, and is multiplayer over a LAN or the internet!And it will be finished shortly!

Zachtronics Industries – Now Hiring!

I know what you’re thinking. “Hiring? In this economy?* You don’t even sell anything!” Okay, so perhaps “hiring” is the wrong word. For the most part, Zachtronics Industries is a one man team – me. I’m a capable programmer, but if you’ve seen anything I’ve made you’ll know that my art skills are lacking. Thus, [...]

SpriteModels, or why I don’t make 3D games

I make a lot of 2D games, both because I prefer the aesthetic and find them simpler than 3D, but also because I’m completely incapable of using 3D modeling programs. Thus, for an ongoing 3D work-in-progress, I developed the SpriteModel. There’s a glut of sprites for a program called “RPG Maker” available online, most of [...]

WOW! WORK FROM HOME AND MAKE MONEY ONLINE!

When a few of you suggested I put my Flash games on Kongregate, I was skeptical at first. For all of you not familiar with Kongregate, it’s a Flash game site where you upload your games and are paid a portion of the revenue that they receive from the ads on their site. It starts [...]