It’s our favorite indie games from the last couple years. Plus the big shake up the Steam Box could bring to the market, if Valve is crushing the Ouya, and why Microsoft and Sony will be forced to adapt.

Plus realistic funding for Indie devs, the new idea of success, and much more!

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Feedback

• Nehemiah wants to know why I didn’t mention Boost last week re the C++ question

Indie

• Indie Game Dev in 2012

• Ouya VS Steambox

• Why Xbox failed in Japan

• The Xmas Bundle 2.0 – Indie Royale

• Development | Desura

  • Alphafunding for Indie Games

• Steam Greenlight

• Beat Hazard Grosses $2 Million

• Wolfram von Funck (wol_lay) on Twitter

Game Picks:

• Cube World: Gameplay Summary
• Vessel
• LIMBO on Steam
• Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest by Phil Hassey — Kickstarter
• Ndemic Creations
• Mark of the Ninja on Steam
• Trine 2 on Steam

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Chris and Mike take a look at joining an open source project, the formerly brown Ubuntu as a developer platform. Dell is getting ready to launch Sputnik, but should you jump on board or take a big old bite of a Macintosh?

Plus should the release of the iPhone 5 and the Lumia 920 turn developer heads?

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Feedback

• Jay writes in to report that I have swayed him on his views on piracy in 20,000 Leagues Under Java.
  • About Windows Phone 8
  • A few anonymous writers write in with tales of ‘Imposter’s Syndrome’
  • A number of listeners ask: ‘why don’t you get a Fire and root it?’
  • David writes in to let us know that he went with CouchDB and is happy with it!

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

• Github CRASHED!!!
• Steam Greenlight
• iPhone UUID Apocalypse — just another reason to use paid apps
• The iPhone 5 release — le bore
• Amazon Enters the Maps Game
• Google says ‘NO’ to Aliyun and here’s why

My Week Working in Ubuntu As a Dev Box

• The death of the air…
• The Sputnik developer experience
• My dev stack on Ubuntu
• Why Ubuntu over Mac?

The Open-Source Inductee’s Oath

• Geary
• Ok, how do I volunteer for open-source?

Vala — A Hidden Gem

• Syntax similar to C#
• Compiles down to C, then compiles with the system’s native compiler (ie gcc)
• Can be freely mixed with C

Book of the Week

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Tool of the Week

• Day Journal

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