Monthly Archives: March 2009

Flash Game Development on the Wii?

By Alex Schearer | March 18th, 2009
There’s a lot of stuff happening in the indie game world right now. One of the most interesting things I’ve read recently, is the rumor that Nintendo may be cooking up a way for flash developers to port their games directly to the Wii.

Revisiting the Grid Data Structure

By Alex Schearer | March 16th, 2009
I recently gave a presentation to some of my co-workers about the grid data structure and figured I’d share it with you guys. It was a short and sweet talk covering the data structure and how it can be applied to games. In the presentation I covered how you can use the data structure to [...]

XNA on Silverlight at Last

By Alex Schearer | March 13th, 2009
It recently came to my attention that you can now run XNA in Silverlight. This is pretty big news; why, you ask? Simple, because you can now write your game once and have it run on the PC, Xbox 360, and any platform which supports Silverlight!

Indie Game Competition

By Alex Schearer | March 9th, 2009
Hey guys, sorry I haven’t updated recently — things have been busy at home and at work. One of the things that’s kept me busy lately is a game I’m working on for a new competition. Since I know a lot of your are indie game developers I thought I’d share the news with you!

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    Hello, my name is Alex Schearer. I grew up in New York and currently live in Seattle.

    I am a software engineer who works on Microsoft Exchange by day and indie games at night, and this is my blog about game development.

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