So, it's been a couple of weeks since the Humble Bundle made over a million bucks. That's great, cause 4 of the games in the bundle offered to release their source code if the Bundle made over a million. Thus far, both Lugaru and Penumbra:Overture have released their source. Bit-Blot, the makers of Aquaria, seem to be chatting about implementing an online mod database, so they're obviously hard at work getting us some nice, high-quality source. However, I haven't heard anything from Cryptic Sea (the makers of Gish)...
I know the Cryptic Sea guys are probably hard at work, but I do wish we could hear more about the publishing process... That soft-body physics engine looks neat... I'm wondering how they did it... :) It's especially interesting, because I really liked Gish back in the day... it's the game that introduced me to indie gaming. I bought it back when it was released in 2004, again when it was released on Steam, and again with the Humble Bundle. (Although, I got the Bundle mostly for the other games...) I do seem to like supporting it. :)
Plus, it looks like, for the FIRST TIME EVER, the Pandora open-source handheld gaming console is less than "2 months away." (It's been "2 months away" for, like, 2 years now.) And so, it would be nice to see either Gish or Aquaria on it, since they're both really cool games, and both games are Linux-ready. (Although, I don't think either is ARM-ready, so porting might take some work...)
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Oh, and despite the long breaks between posts, this blog is not dead. I'm currently working on a new project, and if it pans out, I'm sure that it will make for some good writing material. :)
EDIT: Gish released source! Wow, I didn't see that coming. I thought aquaria would release source first....