OK, I get to be all sentimental again. A month or so ago, GarageGames pulled the original Torque Game Engine off the market. Now, they are pulling the name GarageGames itself off the market, and replacing it with Torque Technologies. I can’t disagree with the decision Brett Seylor, TT VP of Tech [...]

As announced today at PushButton Labs, we have acquired the full rights to The Incredible Machine! Although this happened several months ago, we waited on announcing it until the guys at Good Old Games could get it ready for sale, where they have a bundle Mega pack that includes four versions of TIM for $9.99. Hit [...]

This the final schedule and agenda for our live GDC interviews and video stream. This blog is the official location for the stream, so be sure to post comments and feedback on how it's going.

I've dropped a name or two in my past. In this blog I'm dropping 26 names related to our recently hired aces and our awesome GDC, "community pit", interview lineup.

Social City was soft-launched last week! PushButton Labs consulted on this Playdom Eugene project and it was a joy for us to contribute to. We had our reservations about announcing this game until the beta was complete but it has been so well received so far that we thought we could make a special note [...]

I took a quick break from my GDC 2010 preparations to turn the cover of the booklet I’m working on into a desktop wallpaper. It’s been fun working on print materials today, hope to be able to give a few away at GDC, even if I’m rushing so we can get a few printed up [...]

I spent a little time with Flash 10’s 3d features recently. Since Flash 10.1 is imminent and FP10 has been at 90%+ penetration for a while now, it’s probably safe to start looking at using FP10 stuff in my projects. I also used this as an opportunity to try out git. It was easy [...]

Hello, world! I wanted to post some real world information on Adobe’s latest big announcement, Adobe Flash Applications for iPhone. I participated in the pre-release beta along with several other very talented Flash developers. We got to be some of the first outsiders to work with the iPhone technology. To try out the tech, we [...]

I will be doing a BYOL session at Adobe MAX 2009. It’s a lab where you learn how to build a platformer in Flash in 90 minutes, and it’s Wednesday at 4pm. It is titled “Build a Flash Based Platformer in 90 Minutes” in honor of its subject matter. It is pretty cool stuff, and I’m [...]

Hey there! We’ve been trying different approaches for the documentation for PushButton Engine. We have reference docs, API docs, and tutorials. There are comments at the class, function, and body levels. There are example applications of varying size and complexity. There’s still a lot more to document, but what is covered seems to be making sens […]

Is AS3 any good at all? JavaScript keeps getting better – well, faster, anyway. C# is kicking ass in raw programming language chutzpah. haXe isn’t bad, either, and then there’s Objective-C for iPhone and Java and C/BREW on other mobile devices. And don’t forget the guys slaving away on AS2 and Flash Lite content! What’s the [... […]

Dear Adobe, Please make Flash into the ultimate console for the web and mobile devices. Do not listen to the people who want you to make DRM. Centralized DRM for games doesn’t work. Adobe, we developers are a fearful lot and wish not to face the reality that all DRM can be cracked. It is much better [...]

If you’re in the Flash space, you’ve probably seen a lot of coverage of HaXe lately. HaXe targets Flash 9 and 10, as well as JavaScript, PHP, NekoVM, and most recently C++. You can write code once and easily retarget it to different platforms, which is very exciting. This has been used to good [...]

Google released O3D, a web plugin for 3d rendering, today. It’s a pretty sweet piece of work. Definitely check it out if you have any interest in 3d rendering, the web, or JavaScript. There are a couple of cool pieces to this puzzle, and I wanted to call them out to other people who might be [...]

PushButton Labs went down to San Francisco last week for the Flash Gaming Summit and GDC.

Our latest game, Grunts: Skirmish, has 200 tweakable parameters. There are 9 player units with three levels of upgrade, and another 9 enemy units. Each unit has between three and ten parameters that can be altered. We tried a few approaches – hand-editing a large XML file (but it was too large and spread out) [...]