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Mike Bithell has revealed his next project, EarthShape, which is a Daydream View VR game featuring Sue Perkins from The Great British Bake Off. EarthShape initially started out as a small side project for Bithell when working on Volume Koda. Made up of Unity store assets he was playing around …
Read More »Google unveils Daydream View VR headset, new titles from WB, CCP and Mike Bithell
plus 50 additional titles before the end of the year
Read More »Mike Bithell: VR’s saturation means indie devs should return to mobile
‘Being away from where the herd is has always worked,’ Thomas Was Alone and Volume creator says
Read More »Let’s chat about Let’s Plays
Since the platform launched, YouTube has become a major force within the games industry. Millions of people spend billions of hours watching their favourite personalities do Let’s Plays – videos of them playing games. This content has become influential and the opinions of these people are held in high regard …
Read More »Devs respond to controversial article defending crunch hours and ‘unfair’ pay
‘These people have managed to adopt a wage-slave attitude toward one of the most remarkable and privileged careers in the world,’ wrote WildTangent founder and DirectX co-creator Alex St. John in heavily criticised op-ed
Read More »Mike Bithell and Dan Pinchbeck lead this year’s speakers at Interface
Indie creator of Volume and studio head at Everybody's Gone to the Rapture dev The Chinese Room to discuss originality and running a small studio
Read More »Mike Bithell and Dan Pinchbeck headline Interface 2016 conference line-up
Award-winning indie developers Mike Bithell and Dan Pinchbeck will both be speaking at Interface this May. Mike Bithell is the multi-talented developer behind Thomas Was Alone and last year’s Volume. His talk, entitled: ’10 sure fire ways to maybe do interesting stuff that could work, possibly’, will offer tips he …
Read More »Mike Bithell to quit coding, open new studio
Thomas Was Alone dev transitioning more to management in the wake of Volume
Read More »INTERVIEW: What’s next for Mike Bithell?
Aside from the time it takes, the biggest pain from transcribing an interview is spotting the points you failed to jump on at the time and the jokes you missed and didn’t laugh at. In this instance, I‘m annoyed that I didn’t catch Mike Bithell’s ‘non-fascistic purity’ joke and didn’t …
Read More »Bithell: What indiepocalypse? Without data we are clueless
Thomas Was Alone dev Mike Bithell has said that we don’t have the data needed to accurately assess the health of the digital games market. One school of thinking is that the boom of digital indie games has now led to bust. This supposed phenomenon is called the ‘indiepocalypse’. Others …
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