Ep3 | Indie City
Stage of Development: Indie City (series)
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15m
From Chicago's DePaul university, to the now-forgotten Chicago triple-A studios, the city once held a lot of promise for would-be game developers. This is the story of that promise reborn.
Up Next in Stage of Development: Indie City (series)
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Ep4 | We Are Chicago
Chicago's South Side is a place where few children grow up to be game developers. Writer Tony Thornton raised a family there, and teamed up with Culture Shock Games to tell a story about what living there is really like.
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Ep2 | The Hermit of Hyde Park
William Chyr is a physicist, game developer, balloon artists and juggler, and the creator of "Manifold Garden." William describes it as a physics-based puzzle game about architecture and the first 100 years of physics. "As if M.C. Escher made a video game."
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Ep5 | Idiots Doing a Dumb Thing
Bit Bash is Chicago's homegrown indie game festival, started by a group of friends who had no idea what they were doing until they did it. Run by Chicagoans, for Chicagoans; it's a game festival done "the Chicago Way": a little goofy, a little rough around the edges, and imminently practical.
