Monthly Archives: February 2010

Global Game Jam: A Post Mortem

By Alex Schearer | February 5th, 2010
This year I attended the Global Game Jam and made The Cleaner. More than creating a game in 48 hours I came away with more insight into the process of developing games and gameplay. In this post I expand on some of the lessons I took away from the game jam. Ultimately, I think the [...]

The Cleaner: Global Game Jam Game

By Alex Schearer | February 1st, 2010
This year I participated in the Global Game Jam! It was a lot of fun and a great way to meet other game developers in the area. We worked our asses off over the weekend to throw something together — I’ll share more thoughts on that later. In the meantime, I’d like to share with [...]

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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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