{"id":66,"date":"2014-10-14T01:56:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-10-14T01:56:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T01:56:20","slug":"gamejolts-david-decarmine-neifletter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Gamejolt’s David DeCarmine: NEIFLetter #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I (Mac) just returned from Indiecade in Culver City (LA) which was equal parts inspiring, tiring, and pure fun. \u00a0I was there as part\u00a0(music\/sound) of the Pillow Castle<\/a>\u00a0team showing off the latest demo of Museum of Simulation Technology<\/a>. \u00a0What an amazing event filled with daring and exciting games largely free from the evil tentacles of corporations and profit margins. \u00a0One of the big stand outs for me was GoodbyeWorld Games’\u00a0Close Your<\/em><\/a> which was an extremely moving and fascinating experience that won the developer’s choice award. \u00a0It uses a webcam to accurately detect when your eyes are blinking. \u00a0Every time you blink the narrative jumps forward. \u00a0I won’t spoil too much of it, but it’s execution is incredible.<\/p>\n

Wandering around Indiecade, I was also fortunate to run into\u00a0David DeCarmine, the creator of Gamejolt. \u00a0Gamejolt holds a very special place in DAM’s heart as one of the main reasons we were able to reach so many people with the prototype of\u00a0Not Everything is Flammable<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0In addition to being the main place we pointed people towards for downloads, Gamejolt allowed us to reach a tremendous amount of \u00a0Youtube Let’s Players all across the world. \u00a0David was thrilled to hear about how much the site meant to us. \u00a0It was cool to hear stories about how many people doubted David when he created Gamejolt for things like allowing any game to be uploaded and for allowing downloads rather than keeping things strictly flash-based. \u00a0Now it is one of the biggest sources of free indie games on the planet.<\/p>\n

Some exciting steps forward were taken by the hard-working DAM team this week. \u00a0Finally we carved out a day to\u00a0set up and integrate a FMOD Studio pipeline into our Unity project. \u00a0FMOD Studio is an incredible piece of software that allows you to design variable and interactive sounds\/music easily and quickly for games and other interactive projects. \u00a0I will share a little bit more about this process in a later update. \u00a0While I was in LA,\u00a0David and Alex implemented and playtested 4 different input control schemes for iOS. \u00a0We will be continuing to test them out to see what is most fun and intuitive, but already have made huge progress on that front.<\/p>\n

Until next time NEIF fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I (Mac) just returned from Indiecade in Culver City (LA) which was equal parts inspiring, tiring, and pure fun. \u00a0I was there as part\u00a0(music\/sound) of the Pillow Castle\u00a0team showing off the latest demo of Museum of Simulation Technology. \u00a0What an amazing event filled with daring and exciting games largely free from the evil tentacles of corporations and profit margins. \u00a0One of the big stand outs for me was GoodbyeWorld Games’\u00a0Close.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/dam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}