[IGDA_indies] Suggestions

[Ben Sawyer]

I'm doing some stuff for a book that will allow me to pub the stuff on
low-end tools.  If people are willing to wait I'll piece something together
by around end of April.

- Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: indies-admin@igda.org [mailto:indies-admin@igda.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Hook
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:20 PM
To: indies@igda.org
Subject: Re: [IGDA_indies] Suggestions


> 1) A major problem that indies often seem to struggle with is finding 
> affordable tools and services when they have no money. I would like to 
> see some form of "$100 & Under" listing of helpful game 
> development/business related tools, software, etc.

That's a very good point.  IIRC, the Web site lists a bunch of open 
source tools, but that may actually only be in the article on open 
source stuff.

In fact, that's a probably a good article by itself, briefly 
mentioning tools like:

cvs/subversion
gimp/paintshop
blender/milkshape3d
open office
mingw/gcc/Dev-C++

Any volunteers? =)

> 2) People have been talking about spreading flyers and such as a means 
> of advertisement - could we capitalize on this idea for the indie sig 
> by passing out 'indie dev sig' flyers at the GDC this year?

Not a bad idea as well, or at least it would be nice if GDC/IGDA 
cooperated to raise some awareness on the sig, but I don't know what 
the policy is on that.

Brian


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