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Nope, I didn't see the rest of his site until after I commented. Make sense under that lens, getting published in those places do help a lot reputation-wise.

Agree. The article had good points with the part about pitching especially helpful. I do get too that the focus of this piece is more on how to get into these publications. I do wi…

I second that. A dev I spoke to basically said that the indie dev scene before (distribution-wise) was really tough because the only way to distribute games on a mass scale was thr…

This is amazing, thank you for sharing this. I'm going through something similar and you never want to go on a full on fight because, like you said, it's hard "knowing that you or …

Interesting develoment, seems similar to what APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association, an industry org consisting of airline companies) is establishing: http://apex.aero/201…

Have you seen Pearl from Google's Spotlight Series? It's a VR film that shows how you can get around the "limitations" of VR: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3060252/dont-be-surprised-…

BeAnotherLab is one that tries to do that: http://www.themachinetobeanother.org They let you experience what it's like to be another person via a custom-built video rig (i.e. you g…

Does anyone have a good simple and free alternative to Invoiceable? I loved the simplicity of that tool (where you can track who your clients are, make reports, the income chart, e…

Second that. A friend made a platformer for an incubator called "Runnin' Around With No Shirt On" where it's basically about a (shirtless) guy running around in hell (and dodging a…

Definitely. I think that's one of the reasons they have such flexible online course offerings (gives their co-op students a lot of flexibility). At the end of my second year, I tra…

The University of Waterloo is a good example of getting an official degree all while doing courses online. Their transcripts do not differentiate between online courses and regular…

Can you elaborate what you meant by the "bs that came along with it"? Was it mostly setting up the system (getting the right folks, script, etc.) that was hard? Really interested t…

Definitely agree with you about issues with monetizing teachers. You would be surprise though to know the kind of things that departments/districts pay for. I once worked for a com…

You might find the work coming out of MIT's Fluid Interfaces group fascinating. The "Smarter Objects" ( http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects/smarter-objects ) project seem to tackle…