After the recent move to the new Ghost Blog [rottentater.com/new-site-launched], the old suteF blog is entirely gone! Not only is that a lousy shame, but I also found some really neat fan fiction and mythos discussions on the internet about suteF, and this inspired me to resurrect some
Well, it finally happened, didn't it? The old rottentater.com [http://www.rottentater.com] has come back online, and it's been smashed together with the blog that hasn't been updated since LAST APRIL... First off, I have a couple of people to thank for all the help in getting this
A multiplayer, real-time strategy ecology/economics game where you take control of one of three industries: House Construction, Car Manufacturing, or Farming. You'll try to best your rivals in economic-combat, but your environmental impact may affect everyone's goals...
A little over three years have passed since I finished suteF in December of 2010. Many people consider it my most notable project, and I agree with them. I've wanted to do a post-mortem for a while, and here it is.
Developers often talk about this issue. How do I convince someone that my game is a game they should play? What makes it different or unique from all of the rest? Is it cheap enough to get more players but expensive enough that they take its contents seriously? Those are
No one will deny that we are entering a new age of distribution of games. Players are no longer expecting that their games be confined to a disk or cartridge that can only be run by a single proprietary device. "Digital" has already swept the world of music, and we're
The Story So Far The way I handle marketing is widely considered to be wrong, if not nonexistent; I feel a good game "sells itself," I have never emailed the press, I don't regularly write blog posts, and I've never written a press release or built one with Press Kit.
"Wow," you say! "Amazing," you say! That's right; I love making progress updates [http://www.twitter.com/#Bulletromancer] and what better way than posting a video [http://youtu.be/RT9B3Q9VI5s] that even happens to contain a (albeit small) portion of gameplay! So What is This? In The Bulletromancer, Sir Kugal
So some of my long time followers may remember some tweets of mine where I explain some of suteF [http://www.rottentater.com/sutef/]'s influences. Probably one of the biggest influences across all of my works is music — specifically Prog Rock. It should be said that I never really
Introduction Hello. I am T. Lauterbach [https://twitter.com/rotten_tater], also known as rotten_tater, one of those so-called "independent game developers." You may remember me from such titles as: suteF [http://www.rottentater.com/sutef], Sutef [http://youtu.be/nPz7MkAhXtQ], and another called "sute F [http://indiegames.com/
Seriously? A game about punching and drop-kneeing mallards? Hahahaha. Damn. Jack Action is a exactly that: a game about Jack Action's noble sacrifice toward defeating the evil hoard of Dr. Science's robotic, maniacal waterfowl.
This is the first in a series of 3 game prototype posts; other games I'll be touching on are Jack Action and the Duck Assault [http://goo.gl/nmBVR], and an incomplete game temporarily known as Proto2[1]. What is Morbid Grid? Morbid Grid [http://goo.gl/PHOIA] is a
Disclaimer! I am not a properly trained programmer. All of the skills I've learned have been self-taught or picked up from being around 'programming gurus.' Aaron Hoffman [https://twitter.com/aaron_hoffman], Kevin Harris [https://twitter.com/tectorum], and Aaron Bahr are three of whom I've had the pleasure
I've been ranting a lot lately to people about some of my design 'philosophies,' and where would it be better to spread it than here? My proposition: > Games, much like art, are experiences or emotional rides that are only plainly understood by the person playing them, and shouldn't (and
[Global Game Jam Page](http://globalgamejam.org/2012/roboroso)Do you have an hour to kill? How about a friend and 2 gamepads? That's what Roboroso [http://globalgamejam.org/2012/roboroso] is: a good old couch game. Roboroso is the product of this year's Global Game Jam, where video game