iDevGames

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About iDevGames

iDevGames was established by Carlos Camacho, its current Editor-in-Chief, on December 3rd 1998 to educate, support and enhance the community of programmers and designers that produce games for the Apple Macintosh platform. We at iDevGames aim to cover the needs of the professional and novice alike, as well as providing an interactive forum to help disperse the technical knowledge and experience of our readers to the whole community. iDevGames has a large news section that keeps its readers up-to-date with new developments regarding development tools, software technologies and techniques, as well as the Macintosh platform and the gaming industry in general.

Advertising

iDevGames is targeted towards the Macintosh developer community, however it attracts a significant side audience of regular visitors interested in the gaming industry. If you would like to feature more prominently in the lives of these readers then you should consider advertising on iDevGames. We feature programs that meet the needs and budgets of small and large size campaigns. For further details regarding on how to take advantage of our audience to improve your sales, visit our Advertising page.

Sponsorship

Corporate sponsorship, or “underwriting”, supplements reader funding and advertising revenue in making possible the production of excellent content on iDevGames. Sponsorship is as an effective communications tool, bringing value to companies and their employees and special acknowledgment and appreciation from Macintosh development community. iDevGames features the names and links of its corporate sponsors on every page of the site. In addition, corporate sponsors have the ability to target their advertisements on specified categories or pages on iDevGames. For more information concerning corporate sponsorship please contact our Editor-in-Chief.

Link Exchange

We believe that building relationships with Macintosh web sites that share similar goals and beliefs as iDevGames is an excellent way to reach beyond our core audience. To take part in this “win-win” banner exchange program to build cross-traffic, the requirements for your website are:

• Must be related to the Macintosh platform or game development
• Must be “family-friendly” and contain no links to adult sites or hate groups
• Must have the ability to display our banner in a similar fashion to our own banner system
• Must be able to provide banner statistics
• Static sites without regular updates will not be considered

iDevGames reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine whether sites may participate in iDevGames’ banner exchange program. To take your first step in building a bridge to our community, please contact our Editor-in-Chief.

Donations

If you would like this site to continue being a valuable resource for the Macintosh game development community, the greatest way to show your support is through a donation. Your gift, whether small or large will go directly towards the cost of hosting the site each month as well as to help pay for special incentives for future iDevGames content. Donate to iDevGames.

Call For Writers

Written articles that introduce projects, discuss or explain development issues, review of software and hardware products, providing or conducting interviews, starting a developer diary, submitting a project postmortem or writing a guess editorial on our industry.

Source code

Source code is obviously of great value to the community, which is very appreciative to those that provide it. We accept complete game source code, frameworks, engines, interesting code fragments, utilities and cool demo code. Whether your source code is for the latest Apple OS, or legacy code from the “old days” – we’re sure someone in the community will find a use for it!

Game Assets

Artistic contributions are also very welcome — graphics, sounds, music and 3D models, are all necessary components of any game. Having your work used in an actual game project is not only good publicity for your talents but is also extremely gratifying.

Tutorials

We welcome tutorials on a wide range of topics such as game development and general Macintosh programming, cross-platform solutions and utilizing development tools. Non-development how-tos that cover graphic and sound creation are also encouraged.

Users that submit features, source code and game assets to iDevGames are granted a free link to promote themselves, their games, projects or company. Since tutorials play such an important role at iDevGames, their authors will receive a free banner. Please contact our Editor for further information.

Come Join Us

The staff at iDevGames are all dedicated individuals that have volunteered their own time to create a web site that we hope will become the focal point for the entire Macintosh game development community. If you share our passion for making Macintosh games and want to help nurture a vibrant community of game developers and, ultimately, friends then why not join us? Active staff members receive special benefits such as their own @idevgames.com mail address, software and textbook review copies, and also have their own biography page which can be used to promote abilities, products or projects.

Contests

uDevGames — The Macintosh Game Programming contest is the premier event for Macintosh game developers to test and display their skills against their peers from around the world. An annual event, uDevGames provides valuable source code to the community and rewards the winners with fabulous prizes, as well as vital industry recognition. To find out more about uDevGames or our other events, visit iDevGames’ contest page.

Developer Diaries

A developer’s diary is an on-going column updated on a regular basis, that covers recent steps that a game or project is making. Not only do they reveal the latest news, they also give readers some insight into what is going on behind the scenes. For developers, they offer a unique method to reach out to their fans, as well as building name recognition in the community. Contact our Editor to find out how you can open your own diary today.

Forum

Learning from your peers is an invaluable way of teaching yourself better technique. Our forum is an extensive resource of interactive problem solving, trouble-shooting and game design discussions. If you cannot find the answer you need then post your question and our friendly readers will help you as much as possible. In addition, it serves as a great place to network and make new industry relationships.

Member’s Directory

Our member’s list is a special gift we grant to individuals who have contributed to iDevGames through their donations. Members can promote their special skills, projects, and games as well as reach out to potential employers.

Feedback

We want iDevGames to be the best site that it can be and for this we need your input. Please let us know what you think about iDevGames, its content or any additional features that we should implement. We have a dedicated forum for discussing these issues but if you feel more direct communication is appropriate then please write to the appropriate staff member.