You may (or may not) have been wondering why there hasn’t been a post on here in a while. I’ve been building a new blog system which integrates with the rest of the site much better, and it’s almost ready to go live!

What does this mean for me?

The Facebook page will continue to publish updates as usual, but if you’re following the blog on Tumblr or subscribed to the RSS feed before November 2010, you won’t receive any new posts from the dcf Games Blog after next week. To continue getting updates, you’ll need to do one of the following:

• “Like” davecheesefish Games on Facebook to get updates in your news feed
• Subscribe by email to get posts delivered straight to your inbox
• Follow me on Twitter, and get other bonus rambling from me too!
• Subscribe to the new RSS feed

The Facebook page and new RSS may go a bit screwy when the switch actually takes place (some old posts may come back up), but it should be fine after that. I’ll be migrating comments over in the following few days.

Why are you doing this?

A variety of reasons, really (Tumblr’s recent reliability issues, the lack of integration with the rest of dcf Games and the hassle of basically having to maintain two seperate sites being the main ones). Bringing the blog in-house and keeping everything together in one place just makes it easier to keep synchronised and provide new services in the future.

Sorry for the inconvenience this change might cause.

Game-modding community site Mod DB has just launched its new indie game site Indie DB! From today I’ll be uploading selected games, screenshots and tutorials to both dcf Games and Indie DB at my account, davecheesefish. If you have an Indie DB or Mod DB account, you can “watch” me via the eye button on the right-hand side of my profile page. You’ll also be able to track the development progress of individual new games by going to their respective pages and “tracking” them too!

2009 Global Game Jam game Lag is now available via Indie DB and (less than 48 hours after uploading it there), has reached rank 18 out of 1782 games on the site overall!

I look forward to participating in the lively community, and hope to see you there soon!