Songbird Productions

Be careful what you spout on about...

Posted by Songbird, 14 September 2006 · 37 views

... for it may come back to haunt you. Yep, about 4 months in my last blog (ack!) I talked about how hard it is to finish a game project. Well, here we are creeping into autumn and the MegaPak is a bit behind schedule.

We've made some changes which always causes churn-- notably Picross has been postponed to a future multicart, and Dicee/High...

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Not just fun and games...

Posted by Songbird, 13 May 2006 · 81 views

Some non-programmer people might think it's easy to make games. Or at the very least, if it isn't easy, it's a lot of fun. Make no mistake about it: developing games is work. A lot of work. If it wasn't, everybody would be doing it, eh?

Sure, it starts out fun. You think of this really cool idea, you get motivated to stay up late for...

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Still "Chopping" away on the Lynx multicart...

Posted by Songbird, 19 April 2006 · 67 views

Yes, it's been a month. What can I say? Well, this: I had two weeks off, mostly in the Orlando area, and I didn't think about video games very much.

The Lynx multicart is definitely coming along, and Karri continues to do an excellent job integrating the minigames as well as creating a nice overall presentation on the menu/system...

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Is it hip to be Squared?

Posted by Songbird, 17 March 2006 · 76 views

Next on the Lynx multicart preview is a cool puzzle game I just got to try out last week called Squared. Think of it as a "Loopz-lite" and you're not far off.

The player gets an assortment of familiar shapes and has to create completely filled rows and columns to remove blocks and...

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Picross preview

Posted by Songbird, 12 March 2006 · 89 views

OK, I admit it. I'm behind the times when it comes to cool, simple yet addictive puzzle games that other people have known about for years. What rock was I under?

First I found out about Sudoku a couple of months ago, and what a great concept that game is. Even my wife got the bug and now solves a few puzzles each week! And next, I found -- you...

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Prowling in the Jungle

Posted by , 10 March 2006 · 79 views

It's amazing to me, and a tribute to the Atari community as a whole, that we can continue to look forward to new Atari Jaguar and Lynx products in 2006. Think about it. That's a full ten years since Atari published its last Jaguar game, and at least seventeen years since Atari first sold a Lynx! Wow.So what does this year hold?...

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