Just a quick shout out to some awesome game development blogs on the net. Last night my referer log lit up with links from Bruce on Games and Japanmanship. I’m going to follow Japanmanship’s lead and keep this blog roll rolling.

• Mainly About Games. Informative and well written it has a nice personal feel to it.
• Dopass.com. Short entries not just about gaming. Funny at times.
• A path through possibility. Irregular updating but well worth a read for some incisive commentary.
• Japanmanship. An incredibly good read of a Western developer’s life in Japan.
• Magical Wasteland. Refreshingly irreverent.
• Gamedev.net. A big and serious site with a lot of good content.
• Seven Degrees of Freedom. Very nice diary style blog.
• Random Encounters in Imaginary Realms. Just cherry picks the good stuff.
• Cheeky. Sparse and interesting development diary.
• Peter Mackay s projects and development diary. Quake on Gamecube.
• Life In The Rain. Often long interesting personal articles.
• T=Machine. Wide ranging blog with much that is happening at the sharp end online.
• Black Company Studios. Semi diary semi event driven articles. Nice.
• .mischief.mayhem.soap. A serious game developer s blog.
• JakeWorld Blog. The life of a game developer.
• Gamefeil. Games, comics, diary.
• Scientific Ninja. Technical stuff here.
• Devbump. Aggregation of gaming articles.
• Nimblebit. Game development diary. Lots of technical stuff.
• It s Bezness time. Bedroom developer diary.
• I love it, I feel like Sisyphus. On start-ups, game development and programming.

Japanmanship additions:

• The Grumpy Gamer legend Ron Gilbert’s on-line scrapbook and thought diary.
• Make it big in games – Jeff Tunnell and Josh Dallman aiming for the award
• Reality Panic s up to.
• The Pickford Bros. blog Old-skool development heroes doing new-skool cool stuff.
• Warren Spector I’ve never heard of this guy but he has some nice ideas. He should be working in the games industry, if you ask me.

My additions:

• Greggman. Game design, programming, and thoughts about Japan from an industry veteran.
• Insert Credit. Obscure games, crazy indy games, hentai games, something for everyone.
• UK Resistance. Hilarious critiques of gamers and the industry.
• Three Hundred Mechanics. Idea prototyping with finesse and style.
• Neko Games. A huge number of mini-games and handling experiments, all expertly done.